Soumitra Chatterjee, Aparna Sen to star in 'Basu Paribar'

Acting legend Soumitra Chatterjee and director-actor Aparna Sen are all set to share the screen space after a gap of 17 years.

Soumitra and Aparna, who worked in films such as "Baksa Badal" (1970), "Akash Kusum" (1965), "Jiban Saikate (1972)" and were last seen together in "Paromitar Ekdin" in 2000, will feature in Suman Ghosh's "Basu Paribar".

It is Ghosh's fifth film with Chatterjee while he is collaborating with Sen for the first time.

"This is my first project with Rinadi (Aparna Sen) who is usually not keen to work in other directors' films unless she is intrigued by the script. She also wanted to work with Soumitra-da after all these years," Ghosh told

(This article has not been edited by DNA's editorial team and is auto-generated from an agency feed.)