Aparna Sen | Photo courtesy: Shiv Kumar Pushpakar

Veteran director and actress Aparna Sen’s new project ‘Her Indian Summer’ will be developed as an India-UK co-production. Diversity.

The film is a love story set against the backdrop of the Partition of India and Pakistan in 1947, and is being produced by Kolkata-based producer-director Aritra Sen and Los Angeles-based British writer-director Alex Harvey’s Big Bazaar Films.

Sen came to recognition as an actor with the ‘Samaapti’ segment in Oscar-winner Satyajit Ray’s ‘Three Daughters’ (1961). She acted in several more of Ray’s films and also worked with stalwarts like Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha and Rituparno Ghosh.

Sen’s directorial debut ’36 Chowringhee Lane’ won the Best Director award at India’s National Film Awards. She has since directed several notable films, including ‘Paroma’ (1984), ‘Sati’ (1989), ‘Paromitar Ek Din’ (2000), ‘Mr. and Mrs. Iyer’ (2002), ‘Goynar Baksho’ (2013) and ‘The Rapist’, which won the Kim Jiseok Prize at Busan in 2021. She was the subject of Suman Ghosh’s documentary ‘Parama: A Journey with Aparna Sen’, which premiered at the International Film Festival Rotterdam earlier this year.

“I am excited about my story ‘Her Indian Summer’ which I see as an India-UK co-production with leading British and Indian actors,” said Aparna Sen. “I am delighted that Alex Harvey and Aritra Sen of Big Bazaar Films are taking the project forward and hope to begin filming soon.”