Jan 10

Jan 10 Left Wing Filmmaker Mrinal Sen passes away

Mrinal Sen, a leading left wing political film maker, died December 30, 2018 in Kolkata. His films won numerous international awards. The Case Is Closed (1982), a critique of the hypocritical reaction of a wealthy Kolkata family to the death of a servant boy, was awarded the Jury Prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.

Although he remained politically committed, Sen felt that the "difference between party Marxists and a private Marxist like me is that others think they pocketed truth, whereas I am always in search of truth... "

Sen was born May 14, 1923 in Faridpur, Bengal Presidency, British India, which is now part of Bangladesh. After studying physics at Calcutta university, Sen worked as a freelance journalist, a salesman of patent medicines and a sound technician in a film studio. In the mid-1940s he joined the Indian People's Theatre Association and at that time began to read about and study film. The association had links to the Communist Party of India and this heralded the beginning of Sen's involvement with Marxist politics. In 1956 Sen made his debut with Raat Bhore (1956), the first of his 30 (as of 2002) films. Although his first film was openly political, he achieved national status as the director of a comedy, Bhuvan Shome (1969). Influenced by Italian neorealism and the work of fellow countryman Satyajit Ray, Sen used location shooting and non-professional casts in his early films. By the 1970s he was making wider use of symbolism and allegory.

Mrinal Sen directed the following films:

2018 My Land

1996 And the Show Goes on: Indian Chapter (TV Movie documentary)

1993 Antareen

1992 Mahaprithivi

1990 City Life

1990 Calcutta My Eldorado - CITY LIFE - Calcutta

1989 Ek Din Achanak

1986 Genesis

1986 Kabhi Door Kabhi Paas (TV Series)

1984 Tasveer Apni Apni (TV Movie)

1984 Khandhar

1982 The Case Is Closed

1981 Chaalchitra

1981 In Search of Famine

1979 And Quiet Rolls the Dawn

1979 The Man with the Axe

1977 The Marginal Ones

1977 Mrigayaa

1975 Chorus

1973 Padatik

1972 Ek Adhuri Kahani

1971 Calcutta 71

1971 Interview

197 0Ichhapuran

1969 Bhuvan Shome

1967 Moving Perspectives (Documentary)

1966 Matira Manisha

1965 Akash Kusum

1964 Pratinidhi

1962 Abasheshe

1961 Punasha

1960 Baishey Shravana

1959 Neel Akasher Neechey

1956 Raat Bhore

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