It’s very happy birthday to Konkona Sen Sharma (December 3, 1979), who turns 30 today. This has been a specially good year for the young actress, who has had two good releases this year, the first being Zoya Akhtar’s ’Luck By Chance’ and Ayan Mukherjee’s ’Wake Up Sid’. The daughter of talented Bengali film actress and director Aparna Sen and journalist Mukul Sharma, Konkona began her foray into films very early. Her first film was ’Indira’ as child artiste.
As she became an adult, she made her debut in Bengali films. But it was her mother’s ’Mr and Mrs Iyer’, opposite a seasoned Rahul Bose, that Konkona grabbed the attention of cinegoers, critics and directors alike. She even won the President’s Award for Best Actress that year for the movie. Madhur Bhandarkar’s ’Page 3’ further cemented her image and presence in Bollywood. She seemed to have arrived at just the right time, when directors were willing to look beyond the typical, clichéd, mainstream formula films.
Vishal Bharadwaj’s ’Omkara’ and Anurag Basu’s ’Life In A… Metro’ followed suit. It says something for her acting prowess or good fortune, or both, that she found herself a part of the Yash Raj camp and acted in two films for them, ’Laaga Chunri Mein Daag’ and ’Aaja Nachle’. She was the supporting actress in both these projects, but despite the presence of stalwarts like Rani Mukherjee and Madhuri Dixit, Konkona managed to stand out with her bravura performance. She followed it up with ’Luck By Chance’ and ’Wake Up Sid’.
Currently, the actress is believed to be shooting with Ajay Devgn for a comedy, ’Atithi Tum Kab Jaoge.’ Despite coming from a very arthouse film background, she has managed to make herself quite at home in mainstream cinema, and there are certain roles in which one can envision no one else but her. Her line of co stars includes the likes of Rahul Bose, Ajay Devgn, Saif Ali Khan, Farhan Akhtar, Ranbir Kapoor, Irrfan Khan and Kunal Kapoor.
Besides her Hindi films, the actress has managed to keep her connection with Bengali films alive and has given some noteworthy performances in films like ’Dosar’ and ’Ek Je Aacche Kanya’. Her mother has given her some of the best roles in the beginning of her career in ’Mr and Mrs Iyer’ and ’15 Park Avenue’. It says a lot for Hindi cinema that an actress like Konkona has managed to break the mould and still managed to find a place in all the prominent camps of the industry like Yash Raj and Dharma Productions. The good thing is that she is allowed to be herself, an actress of great sensitivity and not expected to do anything more than act. We would like to wish her a very happy birthday and a great year ahead.
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