Sharmila Tagore and Konkona Sen Sharma talks about what sets art cinema apart from mainstream cinema, what it takes to nurture creativity and imagination and their ingress to cinema, with Shoma Chaudhury at Algebra, The Arts & Ideas Club, Gurugram on 20-August 2107.
Both the actors have marked a dent in cinema with their extraordinarily distinct and diverse performances.
Sharmila Tagore’s advent in cinema is marked by her role in avant-garde filmmaker Satyajit Ray’s film, Apur Sansar, which was followed by significant roles like that of the child bride in Devi. Even though she ventured into mainstream Bollywood cinema, she kept going back to Ray’s parallel cinema. Despite a lot of raised eyebrows, she felt this was the only “natural progression”; that of moving from regional to a pan-Indian visibility.
Konkona Sen Sharma, daughter of renowned Bengali actor Aparna Sen, is known for her unusually bold and progressive roles. She’s a woman of seemingly unmatched calibre not just as an actor but also as a director now with the release of her directorial debut, A Death In The Gunj, in the genre of realism.
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