Finally she walks out of the marriage and decides to strike it out on her own. The marriage goes unconsummated he wallows in self-pity while she works on to make both ends meet. She marries the jailbird after his release, but he discovers the scars on her body on the nuptial night. There she plays a young girl who is gang-raped when her fiancé is in jail. That is all the make-up I did for Dahan." And look at what it got her! She also did a challenging title role in Satarupa Sanyal's first directorial effort, Anu. The eyes turned red and my face was swollen.
"For the scenes that show me as sick, I used my own little trick - I covered my eyes with glycerine-soaked pads. My only quarrel with the film is - if Romita (Rituparna, the young woman who was the victim of the molestation) had to go away to her sister in Canada, why did she back out of identifying her culprits in court? Click for bigger pic! Indrani is rather proud that she used no make-up for her Dahan role. But this is purely my personal opinion because Suchitra-di is a wonderful writer in her own right. What does she have to say about the changes Rituparno made in the script from the original novel penned by Suchitra Bhattacharjee on this real-life incident? I think the script makes a deeper impact than the novel. When I learnt I would play her my joy knew no limits," she says. Has she met Ananya Chatterjee, the real Jhinuk of Dahan - the journalist who actually saved a young housewife from being molested and kidnapped outside the Calcutta metro a few years ago? "Of course I know Ananya-di since I was a child. 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. But the joy of receiving the national award is dulled by the sorrow of having her father die just before Dahan was released. "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. 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. Basking 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. 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. Click for bigger pic! She is the lady who shared a national award last year with Rituparna Sengupta. Indrani Haldar - Shoma A Chatterji Indrani Haldar.
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