#SupriyaPathak is, without a doubt, one of the most gifted actors we've been fortunate to see on screen, who, from 'Khichdi' to 'Ram Leela', has never failed to wow us.
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Not many know, but in the French movie, 'La Nuit Bengali', back in 1988, Supriya co-starred opposite Hugh Grant. The film also featured Soumitra Chatterjee and Shabana Azmi.
Ask her about the experience, and she says, “My daughter gets very excited about the fact that I once starred opposite Hugh Grant, but I have to keep reminding her he wasn’t ‘the’ Hugh Grant in 1988.” However, she admits, “He was just as charming even back then.”
Directed by Nicolas Klotz, the film was based on the 1933 Romanian novel Bengal Nights, written by Mircea Eliade.
The novel, and the film, were considered to be semi-autobiographical since Eliade's novel was based on his own romantic encounter with writer Maitreyi Devi.
The novel, and the film, were considered to be semi-autobiographical since Eliade's novel was based on his own romantic encounter with writer Maitreyi Devi.
In fact, in 1974, Devi published her own account of their relationship in the book entitled Na Hanyate (It Does Not Die), which won her the Sahitya Akademic award.
Furthermore, reportedly, Devi exacted a promise from Eliade that his novel would never be published in English in her lifetime. True to the promise, the first English translation of Eliade's novel was published in 1993, three years after Devi's death.
Thus, the film, too (for allegedly the same reason), had a limited release in India and garnered mixed reviews.
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