Aparna Sen recalls how loneliness inspired ‘36 Chowringhee Lane’ character Ms Stoneham and Satyajit Ray’s advice: ‘I had always been able to relate to… old people’
- Posted on August 31, 2026
- By The Times of India
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Aparna Sen recalls how loneliness inspired ‘36 Chowringhee Lane’ character Ms Stoneham and Satyajit Ray’s advice: ‘I had always been able to relate to… old people’
Long before she became one of Indian cinema's most respected filmmakers, Aparna Sen was a schoolgirl in Kolkata's Ballygunge, quietly observing the elderly residents of a nearby old-age home during her daily walks to Modern High School for Girls. Those observations, combined with her closeness to the Anglo-Indian teachers at her school, would eventually shape the character at the heart of her directorial debut, '36 Chowringhee Lane', a film that marked 45 years since its release this August 29.
