Raima's working & partying hard

doweshowbellyad=0; CELEBRATION TIME: Raima Sen (PTI)
After the praise she’s received for her films Raima Sen is elated. She talks about her Bong connection...
After two releases back-to-back. You’re on a roll...
Life is looking good. I haven’t been panned by the critics as yet. I hope the audience appreciates the hard work that went in.
So is it time to celebrate now?
There was quite a party on the sets while working on the films since all of us got along like a house on fire.Thanks to the all the premieres and the cocktail parties I’m getting invited to, the fun hasn’t stopped as yet. However, I haven’t had too much time to whoop it up with my friends outside the film fraternity. I hope to catch up with them before I get busy with work again.
It seems you’re quite the party animal...
I love going out with friends, be a woman about town. I love music that I can dance to but I can hardly be called a party animal. I am not the kind who crawls into bed in the wee hours of morning after a night of dancing. Yeah, I do keep score, never more than twice a week would I be seen at any club.
Is it the Bong connect or something more spatial?
(Laughs) Kolkata holds great promise and rocks steady. It also helps that I’m an unyielding Bengali.
Anjan Dutt’s film portrays Bengal in transition. Taking a cue from that, as a Bengali working in Bollywood, how comfortable was your rite of passage?
Bollywood is very catholic. Provincialism doesn’t matter, talent does.
What happens when you go back to work in Tollywood? Are you treated like a star goddess who’s come from Mumbai?
Not in the least. I am still treated in as much the same way as any Tollywood actor. Even the payments don’t differ there.