'Nepotism can fetch you work, but only the fittest survives'
India, April 12 -- A
ctor Raima Sen is stepping back into Bollywood after a four-year gap since Mai (2022), and she's ready for her next chapter. "Ab thoda time laga... But it's always great to be back," she admits.
The 46-year-old, gearing up for filmmaker Hansal Mehta's web series Family Business, recalls her debut in the 1999 film Godmother, when she was just 17. "(Filmmaker) Vinay Shukla said, 'Do this film, [you] fit the bill.'" Acting alongside Shabana Azmi left her "petrified", but she pushed through.
Daughter of veteran actor Moon Moon Sen and the late Bharat Dev Varma, and sister to actor Riya Sen, Raima says her parents insisted she find her own path: "My parents never asked makers to cast us, They always said, 'If you want to join the movies, you have to take this journey alone'."
On nepotism, she is clear: "It can fetch you work. but only the fittest survives." Carrying the legacy of her grandmother, late actor Suchitra Sen, once felt like pressure, but now it's a "blessing". "People know of me. but I want to move beyond that for sure," she says.
With time, her approach has evolved. "Earlier I chose whatever came my way. now I am more responsible," she says, though she admits competition in Bollywood limits how selective she can be compared to Bengali cinema....
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