“My Film Is Called Rapist As It Is About A Rape”

Aparna  Sen says  she  didn’t want to  hide the fact that her forthcoming  film The Rapist, co-produced  by Applause Entertainment, is about a  rape. “My  film called  The Rapist . It is about a  rape and a rapist. I didn’t want to hide  that fact. The idea was with me for ten years.”

The Rapist is Aparna’s  seventh  film with her daughter Konkona Sen  sharma who is stunning as   rape survivor.

This is  Aparna’s first film with Arjun Rampal and she  can’t stop raving  about him. “Arjun is   so gorgeous-looking that people tend to undermine his skills as an  actor .People  get so  hooked  on  the looks that  they forget there is a very finely-tuned actor underneath . He tends  to under-act which is  perfect for the part.Arjun plays Konkona’s  husband. He plays a  Muslim. She is  a  Hindu Brahmin girl.”

Does  Aparna  foresee any trouble? “None at all. They are all liberal in their outlook, as all of us  ought to be.”

Aparna has  shot  The Rapist  on the  digital  format and she is okay with  it. “One  has to  move with the times to stay relevant. To me the platform doesn’t change  anything. There is  no point in fighting technology.  In the beginning when we  moved to digital, I still shot on  celluloid.Even The Japanese  Wife in 2010 was shot on  celluloid . Now digital  technology is advancing so rapidly that one  would so not miss celluloid at all.I’ve shot three or four of my films on digital. And  I am  getting used to  it. It is more practical. No worries  about  wasting footage.”