When her husband is jailed, Sujata breaks down. The camera holds on her face for 30 seconds. She is not a queen; she is a mistress to the empire her husband built—powerful, but only through a man's permission.
In this acclaimed Bengali film, she played Binodini , a young widow who becomes a seductive "other woman" in the life of a married man, Mahendra. When her husband is jailed, Sujata breaks down
In this international production directed by Paul Mayeda Berges, Aishwarya Rai plays a "mistress" not in a romantic sense of an affair, but as a mystical title. When her husband is jailed