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...movie Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Indian writer-director Aparna Sen weaves a love story set against the backdrop of communal violence, the monkey that never leaves India's back. Iyer (played by Konkona Sensharma, Sen's daughter) and Chowdhury (Rahul Bose) seem to have nothing in common. She's an orthodox Hindu from South India, he's a liberal Muslim from West Bengal; she's married with a child, he's a single photographer. But their overnight bus journey through the hills of West Bengal draws them together. As violence erupts, a curfew is declared and they take shelter together...
...When Sen, 57, began writing the script, all she knew was that she wanted to shoot a love story. She had no idea in which context. But in the aftermath of 9/11, she focused the story increasingly on religious hatred-a subject that became all the more timely when riots broke out in Gujarat in March 2002 and one's faith became a litmus test to decide who lives and who dies. Though the inspiration was macabre, Sen doesn't fill the frames of this delicate work with blood and gore, explaining that she wanted, above all, "to make...
...Most Indian movies are commercial staples churned out by Bollywood. But Sen's more rarefied sensibilities were formed in Calcutta where she grew up in an environment that hailed intellectual moviemaking. Her father, the director Chidananda Dasgupta, was best friends with legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, and Sen was soon drawn into their world. At 11, she played the part of a little boy in a play written by Ray's father, and she decided then to become an actress: "I'd never enjoyed anything as much." She has since acted in more than 60 films, including Ray's Teen Kanya...
...Sen made the crossover to writing and directing with 36 Chowringhee Lane, a film about marginalized Anglo Indians in India, which won the country's National Awards for best direction and best cinematography. Sen's subsequent movies have tackled a range of similarly weighty and political topics, including sati, the practice of widow sacrifice. As a result, she is often regarded as a feminist filmmaker, and she wears the tag uneasily. "I believe feminism is a part of humanism, and I am a humanist," she says...
...building up their presence in investment banking - bad timing, in the face of bearish markets and the weakest mergers and acquisitions market in decades. Banks hoping to be bailed out by a quick change in the overall economy look set for disappointment. "There are lots of uncertainties," says Metehan Sen, an analyst at Sal. Oppenheim in Frankfurt. "2003 will also be a very difficult year." Even when the tide turns, German banks will still face the underlying problem that has long dogged them: low profitability. A recent study by U.K. firm PA Consulting, for example, found U.K. banks' return...