For Shabana Azmi Aparna Sen’s “15 Park is close to her heart
For Shabana Azmi Aparna Sen’s “15 Park is close to her heart
The invulnerable Shabana Azmi holds Aparna Sen’s 15 Park Avenue close to her heart for various reasons for varied reasons.
She loved her character ‘Anu’ in 15 Park Avenue and she is compassionate sans being sentimental. She’s a typical urban woman of today, hard pressed for time, juggling several jobs.
It isn’t easy for a working woman coping with life for a who’s also the care-giver in the family isn’t easy. She is not the ‘giving’ martyr like the protagonist in Anil Ganguly’s Tapasya.
Anu is short-tempered, impatient, a giver, but not a martyr. For character, her younger sister played by Konkona is the core of her existence. She was very moved by Anu’s relationship with her family. It was very easy for her to identify with the role..
Shabana showered enough praise for Konkona Sen Sharma who plays her daughter in 15 Park Avenue. Adding that it gave her the nickname Koko.
She played her daughter in Aparna’s Picnic. And if one remembers, she had a chhotu role with her. in Sati. She knew all along she will be an artiste, nothing else. Konkona is a very intelligent artiste. She works from truth. At the moment all her work springs from honesty. She hasn’t9 developed any craft to play her characters.
There were points in 15 Park Avenue when she took my breath away because I completely believed she was the character she was playing. She has tremendous respect for Shabana because
take on roles that are off the beaten track.But she sees her making brave choices. Konkona is very intelligent, very argumentative and they had countless arguments on films, life and other matters.
Shabana, who is acutely self-critical, is pleased with her performance in 15 Park Avenue. She looks the closest that she does in real life.
In 15 Park Avenue, she tried to make the lines sound like everyday conversation. People appreciate silent close-ups. But those are easier to do, if you’re lit and packaged correctly.
That’s precisely a lot of non-actors appear very moving. In Shaji Karun’s Piravi a man who had never acted got the National Award because of those silent close-ups. But her mother taught her it’s speaking dialogues that demands the most out of an actor.
News Edit KV Raman
