Suchitra Sen's closed door opened her life

January 25, 2014 11:24

Former West Bengal Governor Gopalkrishna Gandhi recounts her meeting with Suchitra Sen: Asking for my respects and my best wishes to be conveyed to her, I proceeded with my appointment. As I finished and was about to leave, a young woman I recognised as Moon Moon Sen came up to me and said 'Ma has learnt you are here and would like to see you'. I said I did not wish to disturb her. 'Not at all'She wants to meet you'. Paro had not changed.

The doe eyes were as molten, the smile as plangent. Required by doctors not to rise from her bed, she apologised for not getting up to say 'Namaskar'. I said to her that I, like millions, will remember her roles in many films but, very specially, for that in one film. 'Oh', she said and then turning her eyes towards a blank wall with a sigh intoned '" that is the word, intoned '" one word with the merest hint of an interrogation in it ''Devdas'?'.

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