Filmmaker Aparna Sen, actors Rahul Bose and Moushumi Chatterjee, recently held the music launch of their forthcoming film 'The Japanese Wife' at Cinemax here.

When asked Aparna as to what prompted her to make a film on Kunal Basu's book "The Japanese Wife", she said: "I got inspired with the fact that how two people's 17 years marriage, even though they've never met, has more integrity than any other marriage I've ever seen in real.

"And I immediately knew that this was the film I had to make. I wanted to create a film which is minimalistic but poetic so I had to face a lot of challenges while making the movie."

The event was held by Saregama India Ltd.

Apurv Nagpal, MD of Saregama, said he went berserk reading the novel and is grateful to Aparna for turning this film as beautiful as the book.

"I love Moushumi Chatterjee's role in the film for the great vivacity she shows in her character, " he said.

Rahul Bose, who had worked with Aparna Sen in fantastic films like "Mr. & Mrs. Iyer" and "15th Park Avenue" couldn't stop appreciating Aparna for her brilliant talent of film making.

"If the audience had gone for 'Mr & Mrs. Iyer' because it was a romantic love story then I'm sure double the amount of people will go for 'The Japanese Wife', " said Bose.

Veteran Moushumi Chatterjee who is making a comeback in films after 5 years added, "I've been a lazy person and when I was approached for this film, I knew I was getting a fantastic opportunity to make a comeback. I seriously recommend everyone to see this film because it's full of love yet painful and so please watch the movie and enjoy the pain".

The Japanese Wife is a love story of an Indian man who writes to a Japanese woman. The pen-friends fall in love and exchange their vows over letters, then live as man and wife without ever setting eyes on each other – their intimacy of words tested finally by life's miraculous upheavals.