The soundtrack for the much-awaited Bollywood film, My Japanese Wife, has been launched in Mumbai by director Aparna Sen and actors Rahul Bose and Moushumi Chatterjee. Shot mainly in English, the film, which is based on a novel by Kunal Basu, has 16 songs. Japanese actress Chigusa Takaku plays the title role of the Japanese wife. At the launch, Sen described her film as a modern-day fairy tale. Actor Rahul Bose, who has worked with Sen in the past in he films 15 Park Avenue and Mr and Mrs Iyer, said his character in the new film was that of a romantic. The character Snehmoy has stubbornness. He is writing a letter for the past 17 years to his lover, whom he has never met. During these 17 years of relation, he even marries her after eight years through letters, and they even live together like husband and wife in the same manner. One has to be really romantic for this. There is a stubborn and a strong man hidden behind the peace-loving and introvert man. Nobody can even imagine it. It was a beautiful character to play, said Bose. The Japanese Wife tells the tale of Snehamoy, a schoolteacher played by Rahul Bose in the interiors of Sundarbans, West Bengal, and Migaya, played by Chigusa Takaku. They start off as pen-pals, fall in love and even get married through the letters. And although they are married for 15 years, they have never met each other. The film is scheduled for release on April 9 in India.
