For Sen, daughter of economist and Nobel Prize winner Dr Amartya Sen and poet-writer Nabaneeta Dev Sen, the transformation from a "geeky little girl with thick glasses" to an enchantress, at least on-screen, is a matter of wide-eyed wonder.
"My parents expected me to be a writer or to go into academia, because quite accidentally I always topped my class. So my career choice was a total surprise to them initially, especially since I was such a shy and nerdy little girl."
The actress grew up in three different cities -- London, Kolkata, and Boston -- and lives between the US and India. She has been offered films as varied as Spanish, American and French. In the next year or so, as an Islamic pacifist in The War Within, a tough city girl in The Forest and in a comic role in It's a Mismatch.
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