There are also big blow-ups of a glamorous Indrani, clicked by her younger brother Indraneel, who has taken up still photography - testimony to the youngster's talent and a sister's pride. One wall of her living room in the very modestly decorated flat is crowded with photographs of her father, reflecting his deep influence on the family even after his death. He was not around to share the greatest joy of my life,' she says, a little emotionally. ' 'Put in your best, put in your best,' he would urge me from his sickbed till the last day of the shoot. 'Other privately instituted awards - like the Uttam Kumar Award and the Pramathesh Barua Award - have been so many that I have to sit down and make a list,' she says, sounding more girlishly thrilled than proud.īut the joy of receiving the national award is dulled by the sorrow of having her father die just before Dahan was released. Last year, she bagged the Patton Kalakar Award for her double role as mother and daughter in the television serial Kuasha Jakhan. She had won the same award in 1993 for her role in Kaancher Prithibi. It was a brief but significant role and fetched her the Bengal Film Journalists Association Best Actress Award in 1995. 'I am grateful to Buddhadev Dasgupta for giving me a break in art house cinema in Charachar,' she says. Indrani is already a favourite with parallel film-makers in Calcutta. The national award came as a fitting tribute following a string of excellent performances in mainstream and parallel cinema and on television.

The other two are Debasree Roy and Rituparna Sengupta. She was being honoured for her role as Jhinuk, the schoolteacher who takes up the cause of a molested woman she hardly knows in Rituparno Ghosh's Dahan.īasking in the bliss of her recent marriage - her second - to a tea planter, Indrani is also revelling in being one of the three actresses Bengali cinema currently prides itself for.

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