Not obsessed with national awards: Rituparna

Actor Rituparna Sengupta, having delivered a power-packed performance in Parapaar, based on national awardee Koni writer Moti Nandi's Puber Janla, feels awkward to be told how she deserves a national award for the film.
"Thank you. But for me it is the adulation or collective silence at the end when the credits roll matters more. But who doesn't wish an award, if it comes either way, so be it," Rituparna told PTI after the special screening of the Sanjay Nag flick.
"Sanjay explained the scenes but left the rest for me. I must give credit to Rubel of Bangladesh for making our scenes so believable. He has oodles of theatre experience. And that mattered here. You are as good as your co-actor," Rituparna, who enacts Rubel's on-screen wife finding it hard to reconcile with him after 14 years of solitude, said.

Actor Paoli Dam, having essayed the character of the 'other woman' in Rubel's life, said she feels edgy before every premier if the role has shades.
"Here I portray a vulnerable woman, feisty but weak and susceptible to the ways of this society. It was a challenge to bring to life such a character but I had to vindicate the director's trust."
Complimenting both female leads, Sanjoy, the maker of "Memories in March' said, "Paoli's character has the bit urban drool in accent as she had spent so many years in that surroundings in past and the traces remain. And perhaps Ritu didn't herself know how good and credible she turned out on screen with her natural performance . She sure deserves awards so far I am concerned."

The reference to the 'Nirbhaya' incident, the aftermath when national capital was on boil as the rest of country, merged perfectly with the main plot as this was not in the original work of the writer. "This contemporisation made the whole issue of women bearing the brunt of all attacks and carrying social stigma double-edged," Bhooter Bhabisyot director Anik Dutta said.
Produced by Purti Films Parapaar also cast minister-actor-playwright Bratya Basu.