Aparna Sen started her career as an actor at the age of 15 with Sampati, which is the third part of Satyajit Ray’s Teen Kanya trilogy. 

In The Rapist, Konkona Sen Sharma plays a criminal psychology professor in Delhi, who becomes a victim of sexual assault, and proceeds to fight the societal prejudices against the topic.

The Rapist film will be premiering in the ‘A Window on Asian Cinema’ section. The film stars Konkana Sen Sharma, Arjun Rampal and Tanmay Dhanania. 

Konkana Sen Sharma spoke about being that she ‘has been really privileged and blessed’

Among many other successful women directors in Bollywood, here are five female regional directors you need to know about.

The Aparna Sen directorial is said to be a “hard-hitting drama that examines how much of society is responsible for producing rapists.”

In Sen’s opinion, if there was a film on World War II or an adventure film, there would be high chances of a male director being preferred over a female one.

In 1982, at a time when the film industry hardly had any female director, she switched to the other side of the camera with 36 Chowringhee Lane.

As mothers day is around the corner, here is a list of some highly successful and driven mothers with their confident and competent daughters.