One of India's best known woman filmmakers, Aparna Sen, is all set to start her new film... after many hiccups.

Sen was all set to make her first Hindi film "Gulel" with Ajay Devgan and Saif Ali Khan. The project fell through, first with producer Pritish Nandy Communications backing out and then with the two principal stars revealing a reluctance to get into the project.

At a loose end, Sen toyed seriously with the idea of making another Bengali film with her daughter Konkona Sen Sharma in the lead.

But now the director of "Paroma" and "Paromitar Ek Din" has gone back to making an English-language film. Entitled "15 Park Avenue", the film will feature her "Mr & Mrs Iyer" stars Rahul Bose and Konkona.

Says Konkona: "Isn't my mom best at making English-language films? Which are the films she's best known for? Her first film as director, '36 Chowringhee Lane'. And then 'Mr & Mrs Iyer'.

"I'm really excited about '15 Park Avenue'. It's one of the best scripts mom has written. In fact she has just wrapped it up."

Konkona is also excited about coming together with Rahul again after "Mr & Mrs Iyer".

"We do share a very special on-screen bonding. And we're close friends in real life. But '15 Park Avenue' won't be anything like 'Mr & Mrs Iyer'. It's the story of two non-Bengali sisters living in Kolkata.

"It'll hopefully complete a trilogy of well-received English-language films by mom."

The film puts an end to Sen's year-long ordeal when her other directorial projects fell through.

Meanwhile, Konkona is all set for the release of her first Hindi film Madhur Bhandarkar's "Page 3" and also to begin work on Mira Nair's "The Namesake".

Call her the new age Shabana Azmi, and Konkona blushes with joy.

"Now that's what I call a compliment. Shabana sweetly keeps sending a lot of projects and scripts to me. By some strange coincidence, a lot of socially relevant films are coming my way. I like that.

"But I think a film needs to be engaging for the message to come through. No point in just making dry message-oriented film. In my new release 'Amu' (directed by Shonali Bose), where I play an Indian American who returns to India to search for her parents, I think the message has been engagingly put across.

"But you must excuse my American accent in 'Amu'. It isn't half as good as my Tamil in 'Mr & Mrs Iyer'!"