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I want to do glam roles now:Raima |
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Dec 19, 2007 at 12:19 AM |
 She may be complaining that she didn’t have enough time to shop in Dubai — “The shopping is so overwhelming that I didn’t know where to head” — but Raima Sen’s thrilled with the response her film Migration, part of Mira Nair’s AIDS Jaago series, received at the film festival in Dubai. “ I’ve been to numerous film festivals, but Dubai is exceptional. Also, for a film dealing with a subject like AIDS, you don’t normally expect a full house. But when our film was screened, there were so many people, especially foreigners, in the audience. It was the same even at the film festival in Goa,” says Raima. And did she have any concerns about doing a film on a topic that’s still considered taboo in India? “Not really, because as actors we have to be socially responsible. I’ve always done bold films with challenging roles, so I wasn’t hassled about playing a girl infected by AIDS. And being directed by Mira Nair was an opportunity I couldn’t say no to,” says the actress. Up next for the actress is Aparna Sen’s The Japanese Wife with Rahul Bose — a movie that most art film lovers are looking forward to. “It’s a bilingual, in Bengali and English, and is a love story. Rahul plays a nerdy village master who falls in love with his pen pal, who’s Japanese. And then there’s me playing a widow, who comes to live in Rahul’s house with her son — a really fascinating story and we’ve shot it in Tokyo, Kolkata and the Sunderbans,” says Raima.
So doesn’t she want to do mainstream films in which she can sing and dance with the hero? “I am going mainstream again after Honeymoon Travels and this time it’s with Tusshar Kapoor in C Company. Then there’s another film with Randeep Hooda,” she says adding, “I want to do glam roles now because I’ve done my share of deglam films. It’s also important to do commercial films because it means mass popularity. But I like to strike a balance between art house and popular cinema,” she explains.
And was she disappointed with the Eklavya controversy? “What’s important is it still went to the Oscars. People are entitled to their opinions and can say what they want,” says Raima.
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Last Updated ( Dec 19, 2007 at 12:27 AM )
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