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Podcast: Filmi Ladies
Episode: Filmi Ladies episode 29: Suchitra Sen (superstars series 5)
Description: FINALLY we
1) have as guest star the truly wise, witty, funny, and delightful Sal (twitter: @salandthebadpun)
2) dig into Bengali cinema 3) try to enact dramatic poses inspired by our subject matter (spoiler: one of us fails utterly)
Suchitra Sen is a unique figure in Indian cinema: she's the sine qua non of Bengali films (no one woman is as critical to an entire body of a language cinema as she), she is highly regarded in both Bengali and Hindi cinema, she resolutely sculpted her professional image, and she walked away from films when she decided she was...