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Mrinal Sen (14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films.
May 19, 2024 · Mrinal Sen (born May 14, 1923, Faridpur, East Bengal, India [now in Bangladesh]—died December 30, 2018, Kolkata) was an Indian filmmaker who used a range of aesthetic styles to explore the social and political realities of his homeland.
May 14, 2023 · Sen’s role as the sole flame-keeper of his father’s legacy has become even more important with the demise of his parents (Gita Sen died in 2017, Mrinal Sen the following year).
Aug 10, 2023 · In the year of his birth centenary, at a time when conformity and blind obedience to the state have become the ideals of the age, Mrinal Sen’s legacy of staying true to dissent and true to the...
Apr 1, 2016 · A biographical documentary on auteur and legendary filmmaker Mrinal Sen. It takes a look at the wide panorama of his films across six decades, trying to decode the layers of his...
May 14, 2023 · Mrinal Sen. He was 58. I was 26. He was a giant of Indian cinema, having brought the New Wave. Celebrated in the biggest European film festivals. The year before he had won the Silver Bear at the Berlinale for Akaler Sandhane.
Mrinal Sen. Director: Chorus. Sen is one of his nation's most politically active filmakers. After having studied physics at university in Calcutta, Sen worked as a freelance journalist, a salesman of patent medicines and a sound technician in a film studio.
Jan 3, 2019 · Mrinal Sen, one of India’s leading filmmakers and a central figure in the movement known as parallel cinema, a socially conscious alternative to splashy Bollywood films, died on Dec. 30 at...
Mrinal Sen was the president of the International Federation of the Film Societies. He also served as member of International Jury at various film festivals, including Cannes, Venice, Berlin, Moscow, Karlovy vary, Tokyo, Tehran, Mannheim, Nyon, Chicago, Ghent, Tunis, and Oberhausen.
Dec 30, 2018 · After all, Sen, who passed away in Kolkata today, was celebrated as the firebrand “anarchist” of Indian cinema, the man who chose to redefine the boundaries through films like Bhuvan Shome (1968), Calcutta 71 (1971), Interview (1971), Padatik (1973) and Akaler Sandhane (1980).
