I by no means chased cash, I chased good roles: Raima Sen
For Raima Sen, the enjoyment of performing lies within the expertise relatively than the result. So, if you happen to ask her which of her movies earned the utmost moolah on the field workplace, she wouldn’t know. “I don’t keep in mind which movies have been hits and which have been flops. What stays with me are the tales, the folks I met, the outside shoots and the experiences. That’s what we take with us,” she stated unabashedly.
Raima has by no means taken her legacy without any consideration. Because the granddaughter of Bengal’s Greta Garbo, Suchitra Sen and the daughter of the diva Moon Moon Sen, she is aware of she is privileged. And he or she readily acknowledges how ‘Godmother’ fell into her lap in 1999 and gave her the chance to behave alongside the long-lasting Shabana Azmi. However the journey wasn’t straightforward for this ‘star child’. Sure, she obtained movies, however the tag of being ‘Suchitra Sen’s granddaughter’ accompanied her in all places. The burden of this id ensured that she regularly sharpened her performing abilities. So, whether or not it was ‘Chokher Bali’, ‘Anuranan’, ‘Honeymoon Travels Pvt Ltd’, ‘Manorama Six Ft Beneath’, ‘The Japanese Spouse’, ‘Shabdo’, ‘Baishe Srabon’ or ‘Mai: A Mom’s Rage’, Raima made positive she by no means disenchanted her viewers.
Regardless of starting her profession in Hindi movies, Raima has consciously chosen to stay rooted in Kolkata. “My mom is from right here. That is my hometown, my college, my school. Bengalis have all the time given me a lot love. I may have moved away, however I selected to remain.”
In actual fact, her equation with cash is attention-grabbing. She stated she has by no means chased cash, however one way or the other cash has all the time come to her. Nonetheless, the ‘Daman’ actress is fast so as to add that she has by no means been ‘irresponsible’ with cash both, one thing her late father, Bharat Dev Varma, taught her. “My father taught us to speculate properly. I don’t wish to grow to be a pauper 10 or 20 years later. I’ve seen what occurs to some actors once they do not plan correctly,” she stated.
Whereas she stays sensible about funds, she stated cash alone has by no means been sufficient to persuade her to take up a challenge. “If the function is sweet and the expertise is worth it, I’ll do it. However respect issues. If somebody gives me peanuts, then I really feel they don’t respect my work,” she smiled. And it was the ‘good function’ in Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukhopadhyay’s ‘Phool Pishi O Edward’ that satisfied her to do the Bengali movie. The actress admitted she had usually puzzled why she had by no means labored with the favored director duo regardless of having collaborated with a lot of Bengal’s most acclaimed filmmakers. “Individuals would ask me if I had seen Shibu and Nandita di’s movies. Possibly they felt I did not go well with their sensibility. Possibly their movies weren’t to my sensibility both. However after I labored with them, I realised that their sensibility is definitely very near mine,” she stated.
Ghosh, who moulded her right into a effective actor via movies comparable to ‘Chokher Bali’, ‘Khela’, ‘Chitrangada: The Crowning Want’ and ‘Noukadubi’. “Shibu labored with Rituparno Ghosh and I discovered many similarities in the way in which he conducts workshops and directs actors. The best way he extracts performances jogged my memory numerous Ritu da,” she smiled.
Up subsequent is ‘Abar Hawa Bodol’, a Bengali movie that brings again her fashionable pairing with Parambrata Chattopadhyay on the large display. A sequel to the 2013 hit ‘Hawa Bodol’, the challenge has been within the can for fairly a while. “The movie was shot just a few years in the past, nevertheless it’s all the time a terrific feeling to work with Parambrata,” stated Raima, who has additionally accomplished work on a ‘Netflix’ challenge directed by Hansal Mehta, that includes Anil Kapoor and Vijay Varma.
On Love & Marriage
One other topic she steadily encounters is marriage. After years of fielding the identical query, she has developed a simple reply. “I haven’t discovered the fitting particular person. I need a associate in crime, not somebody who will put me into a conventional mould,” she smiled.
Marriage, she believes, needs to be about companionship and shared experiences relatively than societal expectations. “I really like my freedom. I can journey, work and reside alone phrases. If I discover somebody who enhances that, nice. If not, that’s okay too,” she stated.
