Indian indie favourite Aparna Sen’s new film about love through letters lacks style and diction.
The phonetic possibility of her surname Sen makes Indian indie filmmaker Aparna Sen’s films a fine fodder for all sorts of rhetorical puns in English, most obviously for a word, like say, sensational. But sadly her latest outing, “The Japanese Wife,” does not lend itself to the word because the film is anything but an Aparna Sen film. This also means that many of her previous films actually do lend themselves to hyperbole and it is incumbent to look closely at them individually, which, given her sparse filmography, is not a difficult task at hand. Only such a critique will best highlight why her latest is simply not up to the mark. Otherwise, the author remains a huge admirer of Sen’s abundant sensibility as a filmmaker, which makes her deserving of a seat among global auteurs,...
The phonetic possibility of her surname Sen makes Indian indie filmmaker Aparna Sen’s films a fine fodder for all sorts of rhetorical puns in English, most obviously for a word, like say, sensational. But sadly her latest outing, “The Japanese Wife,” does not lend itself to the word because the film is anything but an Aparna Sen film. This also means that many of her previous films actually do lend themselves to hyperbole and it is incumbent to look closely at them individually, which, given her sparse filmography, is not a difficult task at hand. Only such a critique will best highlight why her latest is simply not up to the mark. Otherwise, the author remains a huge admirer of Sen’s abundant sensibility as a filmmaker, which makes her deserving of a seat among global auteurs,...
- 5/20/2010
- by Sayandeb Chowdhury
- The Moving Arts Journal
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The Japanese Wife
Aparna Sen has made several memorable films, starting with 36, Chowringhee Lane. Like her mentor Satyajit Ray, she too has this rare ability to take the simplest-looking story and turn it into a cinematic piece de resistance. But in The Japanese Wife, she has done something she has not done ever before. That is, to create an ode to love so poetic that it stays on with you for a long, long time.
The story of The Japanese Wife is quite straightforward at the first glance, and those who have read it, already know its flavour. Author Kunal Basu (who makes a one-scene appearance in the film) conjured up this long-distance love story set at a time when the world used to write letters and trans-continental phone calls were exorbitantly costly. Sen adapts this story to the big screen with a rare, lyrical elegance.
Set in the Sunderbans in West Bengal and Japan,...
Aparna Sen has made several memorable films, starting with 36, Chowringhee Lane. Like her mentor Satyajit Ray, she too has this rare ability to take the simplest-looking story and turn it into a cinematic piece de resistance. But in The Japanese Wife, she has done something she has not done ever before. That is, to create an ode to love so poetic that it stays on with you for a long, long time.
The story of The Japanese Wife is quite straightforward at the first glance, and those who have read it, already know its flavour. Author Kunal Basu (who makes a one-scene appearance in the film) conjured up this long-distance love story set at a time when the world used to write letters and trans-continental phone calls were exorbitantly costly. Sen adapts this story to the big screen with a rare, lyrical elegance.
Set in the Sunderbans in West Bengal and Japan,...
- 4/9/2010
- by Runumi G
- DearCinema.com
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Genre: DramaDirector: Aparna SenCast: Rahul Bose, Raima Sen, Chigasu Takaku, Moushmi Chatterjee, Rudranil Ghosh Synopsis: This screen adaptation of Kunal Basu’s novel The Japanese Wife is an improbable love story involving three shy people. Snehamoy Chatterjee, an Arithmetic teacher in a school in the interiors of riverine West Bengal writes to a Japanese girl, Miyage. She writes back. Romance blossoms between the two, the pen-friends exchange vows over letters, then spend the next fifteen years as a married couple without ever setting eyes on each other, until the intimacy of words is tested finally by the intimacy of life. The unusual ...
- 4/8/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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Mumbai, March 30 – The charming Moushumi Chatterjee returns to celluloid after several years in ‘The Japanese Wife’ and is as self-effacing as ever, calling herself a ‘very lazy actor’ who never took her career seriously and doesn’t want to work hard.
Moushumi, 61, says of her role as Rahul Boses’s ‘funny’ Mashi in the Aparna Sen-directed film, based on a book by Kunal Basu: ‘I play Snehamoy’s Mashi. My character is very funny in the film. I have a special.
Moushumi, 61, says of her role as Rahul Boses’s ‘funny’ Mashi in the Aparna Sen-directed film, based on a book by Kunal Basu: ‘I play Snehamoy’s Mashi. My character is very funny in the film. I have a special.
- 3/30/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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March 27, 2010: The Rahul Bose starrer, The Japanese Wife had its music launch on Wednesday. Director of the film, Aparna Sen and actors Rahul Bose and Moushumi Chatterjee were present at the launch.
The film is a book adaptation of Kunal Basu’s novel with the same name. The film has 16 songs. It stars Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku as the Japanese wife.
According to Aparna Sen, she found the story like a modern-day fairy tale. She reveals that when she heard the story from Kunal Basu, she found it very strangely odd and yet charming at the same time.
Rahul Bose, who has earlier worked.
The film is a book adaptation of Kunal Basu’s novel with the same name. The film has 16 songs. It stars Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku as the Japanese wife.
According to Aparna Sen, she found the story like a modern-day fairy tale. She reveals that when she heard the story from Kunal Basu, she found it very strangely odd and yet charming at the same time.
Rahul Bose, who has earlier worked.
- 3/27/2010
- by realbollywood
- RealBollywood.com
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Music album of the much-awaited Bollywood film, My Japanese Wife, was released here on Wednesday. Present on this occasion were My Japanese Wife’s director Aparna Sen and actors Rahul Bose and Moushumi Chatterjee. The film shot mainly in English is based on a novel authored by Kunal Basu and includes 16 songs. Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku plays the title role of the Japanese wife in the film. While interacting with the media at the music launch, Aparna Sen described her film as a "modern-day fairy tale". "When he (Kunal Basu) told me the story, I thought it was so bizarre. ...
- 3/26/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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Mumbai, March 25 – Music album of the much-awaited ollywood film, ‘My Japanese Wife’, was released here on ednesday.
Present on this occasion were My Japanese Wife’s director Aparna Sen and actors Rahul Bose and Moushumi Chatterjee.
The film shot mainly in English is based on a novel authored by Kunal Basu and includes 16 songs.
Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku plays the title role of the Japanese wife in the film.
While interacting with the media at the music launch, Aparna Sen described her film as a ‘modern-day fairy tale’.
“When he (Kunal Basu) told me the story, I thought it was so bizarre. It was so absurd and it was.
Present on this occasion were My Japanese Wife’s director Aparna Sen and actors Rahul Bose and Moushumi Chatterjee.
The film shot mainly in English is based on a novel authored by Kunal Basu and includes 16 songs.
Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku plays the title role of the Japanese wife in the film.
While interacting with the media at the music launch, Aparna Sen described her film as a ‘modern-day fairy tale’.
“When he (Kunal Basu) told me the story, I thought it was so bizarre. It was so absurd and it was.
- 3/25/2010
- by News
- RealBollywood.com
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Actor-director Aparna Sen says the idea for her upcoming film The Japanese Wife came about over a cup of coffee with author Kunal Basu. "It's a very, very unusual love story," Aparna Sen told reporters at a press conference on Tuesday. She added that the movie, which stars Rahul Bose, Raima Sen, Moushumi Chatterjee and Japanese actress Chingusa Takaku, is set to release April 9. The Japanese Wife tells the tale of Snehamoy (Rahul Bose), a schoolteacher in the interiors of Sundarbans, West Bengal, and Migaya (Chingusa Takaku). They start off as pen pals, fall in love and even ...
- 3/24/2010
- Hindustan Times - Cinema
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