Sen Sisters in a Big Dilemma: To Cross Paths or Not
The gorgeous Sen Sisters, Riya and Raima Sen do not know whether they should cross paths or not. Nope, there is nothing wrong between the two but this dilemma has a lot to do with the movie based on wife swapping that is an adaptation of Rabindranath Tagore’s controversial novel Nauka Dubi which stars these two women in a bold wife-swapping stone story.
In the novel, the women never cross paths even for one passing scene and the director Rituparno Ghosh has similar thoughts while filming, but this is something that the producer Subash Ghai does not believe in. For cinematic liberties, he is all for making the two heroines cross paths at least once. A source says, “Ghai belongs to the hardcore commercial school of film-making whereas Rituparno Ghosh’s sensitivities are far more arty. This is the first time that the two sisters Raima and Riya are coming together. Even in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s adaptation of Saratchandra’s Devdas the two female protagonists, rivals in love, came together although their paths never crossed in the novel.”
Rituparno Ghosh objects, “Why should Raima and Riya come together just because people expect them to? This is material from Rabindranath Tagore and therefore inviolable. I respect Sanjay Bhansali’s work. But that (Devdas) was his vision and interpretation. In my Naukadubi the two women cannot come together.”
Raima speaks for the sisters, “People expect us to come together. But that’s the beauty of the story. Everyone else comes together, only we don’t. Besides this is a Rabindranath Tagore story. Ritu-da left it at that.”
The other thing is that the movie Naukadubi will also relaunch Bengali superstar Prosenjeet in Hindi. Personally we feel Ghai is right because Indian audiences have a certain sensibility and if the two hotties come together, they would naturally be pleased.
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