I'm thrilled to collaborate with Martin Scorcese

I'm thrilled to collaborate with Martin Scorcese
Monday, March 08, 2010 12:32 IST
By Subhash K Jha, Santa Banta News Network
/> Martin Scorcese has shown keen interest in revising and restoring Mamata Shankar's legendary father Uday Shankar's film Kalpana.

Sheepishly Mamata confesses she has been not as swift and professional in her dealings with Martin Scorcese as she should have.

"He has indeed been very interested. But I've not been able to keep up the communication with Martin as much as I'd like to. I'm so busy with many different things. Apart from looking after my family and work I also have a mother (former danseuse Amala Shankar) who is over 90. All this is no excuse for putting behind a project as important as a restoration of my father's film."

Mamata now intends to interact seriously with Martin Scorcese and get the restoration work off the ground. "I feel it's a great responsibility that has been put forward for me. I can't thank Martin Scorcese enough for taking such keen interest in Kalpana."

The legendary choreographer –dancer Uday Shankar's daughter Mamata Shankar who is a reputed actress in her own right has just completed another Bengali film Abohoman where her role is apparently based on Mrs Satyajit Ray's life.

The softspoken Mamata who wears the hat of a dancer (she runs Udayan The Mamata Shankar Dance Company), actress and housewife protests against any resemblance of her character to real life. "There are so many wives of directors who support and help their husband with the making of their films the way I'm supposed to have done in Abohoman and there are directors who have had relationships with their actresses.

I don't think Abohoman is based on any one life or experience, " protests Mamata who has played the lead in 3 of Satyajit Ray's films Ganshatru, Shakha Proshakha and Agantuk and several notable works of Mrinal Sen.

In fact Mamata's first feature film Mrinal Sens's Mrigaya in 1976 was also her last Hindi film. "After Mrigaya I never got an offer in Hindi worth considering.

Rather than do inconsequential roles I chose to stay away from Hindi cinema. My output in Bengali cinema too is sparse. I'm grateful to Rituparno Ghosh for giving me a role like Abohoman. It gave me a chance to play a woman quite unlike any I've played so far.

In most of my films I play women who are organized formal and proper. In Abohoman I'm quite scattered the way I'm in real life."
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