Sen-sationalising Tagore

Sanjay Leela Bhansali defied Saratchandra Chatterjee’s novel and brought Paro (Aishwarya Rai) and Chandramukhi (Madhuri Dixit) face-to-face in Devdas.

Now, Raima Sen is hell-bent on getting her director to redefine a literary work purely for commercial reasons. Raima will come face-to-face with her sister Riya in Rituparno Ghosh’s adaptation of Tagore’s novel Naukadubi.

The audience will not accept me and my sister in the same movie without us having a scene together. In the original story, our characters don’t come together at all,” says Raima.

Director Rituparno is giving it a serious thought, and insiders say that he will give in to the sisters’ demand. Raima is excited about the idea of sharing screen space with her sister.

We were supposed to come together earlier in Vicky Chopra’s Seasons Greetings. But that didn’t work out. This time, I hope it will happen,” she says.