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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.
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...
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.
1 day ago · The teaser for Padatik was unveiled on May 14 on the occasion of Mrinal Sen’s 101st birth anniversary. The black-and-white teaser offers a poignant glimpse of the cultural shifts in Bengal following the death of Rabindranath Tagore, setting the stage for an exploration of Mrinal Sen's life and career. The film promises to chronicle the various phases of Sen's life, from his struggles and triumphs to his profound influence on the world of filmmaking during times of significant political ...
Apr 5, 2023 · Explore the life and legacy of Mrinal Sen, one of India's most influential filmmakers and a pioneer of politically charged cinema, in our latest article.
Aug 10, 2023 · Mrinal Sen’s films neither toed the party line nor paid homage to the idea of national cinema. For him, the real enemy was sectarianism. Leading the Debate Since 1984
While Sen was in New York, I tape-recorded an interview with him, with the aim of either eventually publishing it in Cineaste, which I had founded a few years earlier, or perhaps incorporating it into a press kit in the event that Tricontinental was able to release one or more of his films.
