In 1981, Aparna Sen made her debut as a film director with 36 Chowringhee Lane. She also wrote its screenplay. The film, about an aged Anglo-Indian teacher living in Calcutta, won positive reviews from critics. For her debut feature, Aparna Sen won the Best Director award at the Indian National Film Awards. 36 Chowringhee Lane also won the Grand Prix (the Golden Eagle) at the Manila International Film Festival. Aparna Sen followed up this early success with several other films, notably Paroma (1984), Sati (1989) and Yugant (1995). These examined the feminine condition in modern-day India from different perspectives. She also starred in Unishe April (1994), the film by Bengali cinema's Rituparno Ghosh. Sen's next directorial effort Paromitar Ek Din (2000) was a critical hit and recalled the success of her first film. The film explored the relationship between a divorced woman (Rituparna Sengupta) and her mother-in-law, played by Aparna Sen herself. It won a number of awards on the international festival circuit. Mr. and Mrs. Iyer (2002), was a love story set against the harsh backdrop of Hindu-Muslim sectarian violence in India. The film won a National Film Award for Sen's direction, and an acting award for Konkona Sen Sharma, the director's daughter. The film won more awards at the Locarno, Hawaii and Manila film festivals.
15, Park Avenue (2005), starred her daughter and the actors Shabana Azmi, Dhritiman Chaterji, Waheeda Rehman, Rahul Bose and Soumitra Chatterjee. The film deals with a girl (Sharma) who is a schizophrenic and her relations with her elder stepsister, played by Azmi. Her next film named The Japanese Wife (2008), stars Raima Sen, Rahul Bose and a Japanese actress. This film focuses on two women. It is based on a short story by West Bengal author Kunal Basu. In 2009, Sen announced her first hindi film Gulel , which will star Ranbir Kapoor , Farhan Akhtar , Bipasha Basu , Urmila Matondkar and Konkona Sen Sharma.
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