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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.
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...
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.
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.
May 9, 2023 · A hundred years after his birth, we plot a beginner’s path through the politically charged and formally experimental films of Mrinal Sen, one of the leading lights of the Indian New Wave.
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 is a genius who politicized not only Bengali cinema but Indian cinema as well. He is the director who showed Indians what real political cinema is. In his book on Mrinal Sen, Soumik Kanti Ghosh writes that political films depict the conflicts between those governing and the governed.
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.
Dec 30, 2018 · Indian director Mrinal Sen died Sunday in his hometown of Kolkata after a prolonged illness. He was 95. Sen formed the acclaimed trio of legendary directors Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak from...
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.
