Nudity needs responsible treatment: Nandana Sen
Daughter of Nobel Laureate economist, Amartya Sen and Padma Shri-winning Bengali writer, Nabanita Dev Sen, Nandana Sen talks about the dignity of the naked human form as she returns in Rang Rasiya.
Bollywood and Hindi cinema are not where you would naturally place the daughter of a Nobel Laureate economist (Amartya Sen) and a Padma Shri-winning Bengali writer (Nabanita Dev Sen). But then Nandana Sen is hardly one to conform to stereotype.
A student of literature at Harvard University, she went on to study film production and acting before making her acting debut in Goutam Ghose’s Gudia (1997). Bollywood followed in 2005, with Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black. In June last year, she married John Makinson, CEO of Penguin Publishing, and now lives largely in New York.
Her much-delayed film Rang Rasiya, about freedom of expression and the love story between artist Raja Ravi Varma and his muse Sugandha, finally about to release, brings the New York-based writer, actor and activist back home to India.
