Sudeshna Sen: Portraying and Preserving Cultural Heritage

The Unmistakable Creative Podcast

Srinivas Rao

Society & Culture

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 21 February 2018

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

How do you go about preserving and portraying such a deep and complex culture such as Indian culture? That’s the issue that faces filmmaker and photographer Sudeshna Sen. But she’s embraced it and wants to make sure that culture is portrayed correctly in media. Her story involves breaking cultural norms and studying Japanese literature in college, branching out to film making, and much, much more. Take a listen to her journey in our latest episode!

Sudeshna Sen is a filmmaker and photographer. She studied Japanese literature in college and has a degree in that field.

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0:17.2	And what I want to do is sort of highlight the nuances that exist within these, within the communities, within the larger picture so that, you know, when we see a film and we see an Indian character it's not just like oh Mr Chatterjee from Gouderat because you know the person from good you know the person from good not will
0:20.6	never be called Mr Chatterjee and I want to get this right so like for
0:24.4	instance and I'll tell you like Sherlock the TV show I can't remember which episode
0:29.4	it is but I think it's one of the earlier ones it's at the season one or two
0:31.9	where they have this character
0:34.7	with the landlady like a vague boyfriend character in the background and they have this this
0:40.4	guy who's apparently a Pakistani called Mr Gupta.
0:44.6	I'm not sure if I'm getting the exact details right,
0:47.3	but it's something like that.
0:48.2	It had an Indian name with a Pakistani background and I was thinking,
0:51.4	well, yeah, like Mrpta from Islamabad or something.
0:54.5	Right. You can't do that you have to call him something that makes sense you know and
0:59.4	and so those are the things that have been bothering me for a while now that, oh, the details need to be right.
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1:55.0	So that's now, welcome to the unmistakable Creative. Thanks so much for taking the time to join us.
2:01.0	Thank you for having me.
2:02.0	Yeah, so it is my pleasure to have you here.
2:04.0	I actually was introduced to your story by you writing in telling me a little bit about the fact that you're
2:10.4	of Indian descent and you're a filmmaker which is in my mind a very unconventional career path for people who are of Indian descent
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