Sen-sational

It’s the first time Sen has worked on a story originally penned by someone else,but she says that while reading Kunal Basu’s The Japanese Wife,the author and the director’s vision merged seamlessly. “Reason why I didn’t even feel the need to digress significantly from Kunal’s story. When I was reading it,It felt as if this is a story that even I wanted to tell,” says Sen.

But expanding a 14-page short story into a script for a two-hour movie must have required the director to do more than just rely on the story she had at hand. “That was the challenge in adapting the story for the big screen. I developed Kunal’s suggestions into full-blown situations in the film. And yes,interpreted the relationships my way,” says Sen. “Like there was no masturbating scene in the original story. But I felt there has to be some sexual tension between two people who call themselves man and wife,” she points out.

When you point out that this film must be her only one which takes a way around bare-knuckled realism,Sen is ready with her answer. “It’s not unreal,it’s beautiful. I wanted the film to resemble a Japanese water colour,” she says.