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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.
Mrinal Sen (1923-2018) was a prominent Indian filmmaker, writer and producer. He made 30 films, influenced by neorealism and Marxism, and won numerous international awards, including the Jury Prize at Cannes for The Case Is Closed (1982).
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- Kolkata, West Bengal, India
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- Director, Writer, Producer
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.
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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...
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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.