Aparna Sen makes a comeback with "The Japanese Wife - A Love poem"

Online, February 24, 2010 (Newswire.com) - Saregama films bring together the hit team of Mr & Mrs Iyer - Director Aparna Sen and Rahul Bose in film "The Japanese Wife" with star-cast Raima Sen, Chigusa Takaku and Moushumi Chatterjee. The film is set to release on April 09, 2010.
This time, too, Aparna Sen makes an unusual film with an unusual message: How far will you go for love?
Snehamoy, a schoolteacher in the Sunderbans, and Miyage, a young girl in Japan, meet through letters, fall in love over letters, and even get married through letters! They have been married for 15 years ... but have never met.
In this very tender, lyrically-told, stunningly-photographed film, Snehamoy and Miyage go the distance for their love, from the happy to the funny to the sad, sometimes even the bizarre ... Only a director with Aparna Sen's skill could have woven a love Poem like this on screen.
Mr. Apurv Nagpal, MD of Saregama, says, "We admire Aparna's work and ability to interpret love. This is not just a film but a lyrical love poem, very different to anything out there in today's age of instant gratification."
The film features a stellar cast: Miyage is played - for the first time in Indian films - by a Japanese actress, Chigusa Takaku. And the talent of Rahul Bose as Snehamoy, is stretched to its limit as he goes from a college student to an elderly man. And, of course, there is Raima Sen and Moushumi Chatterjee, who bursts back onto the screen after two decades.

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