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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. 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.
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 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.
Aug 10, 2023 · While Mrinal Sen foregrounded the political problems of the day, he also wove a rich tapestry of history, memory, and remembering by making extensive use of inter-textuality and self-reflexivity...
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...
Aug 10, 2023 · New cinema. Sen’s films from the 1970s, Interview (1971), Calcutta 71 (1972), Padatik (Foot Soldier, 1973) and Chorus (1974), recorded the pulse of those radical times...
Dec 30, 2018 · One of the most prolific filmmakers in the country and the pioneer of new wave cinema, Mrinal Sen passed away on Sunday morning due to age-related ailments. He was 95. He died after suffering a heart attack at his residence in Bhowanipore area of the city.
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.
