Raima anxious to know feedback to her Kadambari portrayal

Sen said that considering the intensity of the subject and the period look, she was keen to see how it all went.

"It is an intense role I haven't done for a long time. I hope I have done justice to what Rituda had wanted of me," Sen, who straddles both Bengali films and Hindi films, told PTI.

She said acting in the role was also a learning experience for her as she came to know Kadambari Devi better through her study of the persona which had an important role in Tagore's life.

Kadambari Devi, whom Rabindranath Tagore addressed fondly as "Choto Bouthan", had committed suicide shortly after Rabindranath's marriage, but the reason for her extreme step was never known since the suicide note she had written was allegedly destroyed.

Her death had left Tagore so devastated that he went into a cocoon for sometime.

Apart from the 'challenging' role of Kadambari Devi, the Bengali beauty has also launched herself into other roles, different from the coy and docile characters she so far played.

"An example is my hippie-like character 'Isani' in Moinak Bhowmik's "Maach Misti and More" which required me to act hippie mannerisms and walk and dress like them, though I didn't have to wear beads and headgears." MORE