Career
Sen experienced her first taste of cinema while still a student when director Goutam Ghose tapped her to play the lead in his dark and disturbing psychodrama The Doll as one of the targets of a middle-age man's sexual obsession.
Her first debut vehicle in Bollywood was the Rani Mukherjee and Amitabh Bachchan starrer Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s Black in which she essayed the role of a 17-year-old sister of Rani. Her character was applauded by the viewers and the critics.
After teaming up on a succession of projects with Indian directors including Ram Gopal Varma and Nitin Manmohan, Sen signed for one of the principal roles in the jarring, terrorist-themed psychological drama The War Within (2005) and, in the process, both made a name for herself and began to cultivate a reputation for being drawn to offbeat, challenging, and demanding roles.
In Tango Charlie, she shared the screen space with the likes of Sanjay Dutt, Ajay Devgn and Bobby Deol. She landed into the controversies due to her bold scenes in when flaunted her back. The movie My Wife's Murder offered her the opportunity to work with Anil Kapoor, Boman Irani and Suchitra Krishnamurthy. Both of these movies did well with the audiences. Later flicks, she did in Hindi were Strangers, Marigold, Rang Rasiya, The Forest and Prince. In the midst, she dolled up other languages’ projects.
The British television series Sharpe added more sparkles to her popularity graph. The episode ‘Sharpe’s Peril’ featured her in the pivotal role. In 2007, Sen signed on to portray a young rebellious woman fleeing from law authorities in director Shamim Sarif's lesbian-themed period drama The World Unseen.
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