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Aparna Sen says "My new film is Juganto it is a portrait of modern marriage, it examines the nature of marital relationship against the background of changing society, changing moral values, the changing environment and so on." Aparna Sen is a renowned name in Bengali as well as Indian cinema. She has excelled both as an actor in film and theatre and as a director of parallel cinema. Her first film appearance happened in Satyajit Ray's Teen Kanya (1961) when she was sixteen. Since then, Aparna has acted in many films in lead roles. In 1981, Aparna made her debut as a film director with 36 Chowringhee Lane (1981) which won national and international awards. Since then, Aparna has directed a series of films on a wide variety of subjects. Most of her films have been well acclaimed nationally
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