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    Remembering Sonali Dasgupta-Rossellini

    Rinki Roy Bhattacharya pays tribute to her aunt Sonali Dasgupta, who eloped with filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in 1956, and then made a life in Europe.

    She deserves to be celebrated.

    Her name was taboo at home. Even as outsiders claimed to be her imaginary relatives in the media, no one dared protest. Yet, quite often I remember my mother irritably exploding:

    “You are just like Sonali. Not only do you look alike, you will bring us shame as did she.”

    My mother’s ominous premonitions followed after the sordid Sonali Dasgupta-Robeto Rossellini affair. The Italian filmmaker was married to Hollywood diva Ingrid Bergman when he arrived in India in 1957. He fell in love with Sonali, who was married and had two kids. Sonali eloped with Rossellini taking one of her kids with her and settled down in Rome. He was 52 and she was just 27. They never married and he left her after 17 years for another younger woman.

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    Shedding light on Rossellini-Sonali Dasgupta affair

    Sixty years ago this month, an affair between the great Italian spelfilm director, Roberto Rossellini, then married to Ingrid geolog, and a young Bengali woman, Sonali Dasgupta, wife of the filmmaker Harisadhan Dasgupta, made headlines in the yellow press in India and in Britain and amerika. The coverage was a potpourri of innuendo, xenophobia, envy and outright fabrication.
    One individual who witnessed the scandal from its genesis to its denouement - a ung Frenchman called Jean Herman, later renowned as a prolific and much acclaimed novelist, filmskapare and screen-play writer beneath the name Jean Vautrin -passed away at his home in village nära Bordeaux in south-west France on Tuesday.
    I was privileged to get his account of what had transpired during those turbulent months in the course of an extended conversation in a cafe located right across the Montparnasse railway hållplats - a conversation that subsequently figured in my b

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    Sonali Dasgupta, the real woman behind the scandal

    In countless stories, Sonali Dasgupta has been portrayed as a tragic, lonely figure overwhelmed all her life by the magnitude of the scandal she set off when she ran off to Rome with filmmaker Roberto Rossellini in the 1957. It sounded like a suitable lesson for a woman who left her marriage and children to chase some prohibited passion.
    The truth is far from this.She lived a full life in Rome till her death on Saturday evening, a feisty, independent and successful businesswoman who ran an India-inspired boutique - probably the first such in Rome of the early 60s — and remained an integral part of the city's social and cultural circuit. Her clothes, jewellery, furnishings and handicrafts sold at Sonali, her store, were much sought after and her clientele included the film fraternity of Itlay and Hollywood. And she certainly remained in touch with her family back home.
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