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Mrinal Sen entered the world of arts through Indian Peoples Theatre Association (IPTA) in 1943. He made his first film 'Raat Bhor' in 1956. Deeply influenced by the leftist ideology, most of his films deal with socio-political themes and the complexities of life of the urban middle class of Bengal. His second film, 'Neel Akasher Nichey' was banned by the government for two months in 1958. Though he predominantly worked in Bengali cinema, Sen also made films in the Odia, Telugu and Hindi languages. He won the National Award for Best Film four times and his films were screened at various international film festivals that bestowed accolades upon him. Sen also served as a jury member at the Cannes International Film Festival.
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17 December 2020
An elusive actor is a rarity. Talking Head is about the actor Dhritiman Chaterji. In October 1970, Pratidwandi (The Adversary) one of Satyajit Ray’s most political films was released.
01 August 2007
While Northern India’s 100-year-old film industry is best known for flamboyant dance sequences and romantic plot lines, its directors have begun to step outside established formulas and explore grittier subject matter.
07 November 1981
Reel 12 of Gérard Courant's on-going Cinematon series.
01 April 1967
The film unfolds the history of India since the beginning of time to present day through the help of sculptures, paintings, photographs and live action shots.
03 June 2014
Films Division, decides to make a documentary film on the renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen. Officials from the Films Division go to Mrinal Sen’s house in Kolkata to officially propose the making of the documentary film on him.
18 September 1996
The 'Century of Cinema' is an 18-part series produced by the British Film Institute to celebrate 100 years of cinema.
12 October 1972
The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India.
30 December 2001
This biographical film is a tribute to a pioneering actress Smita Patil through her works a tribute to the parallel cinema.
01 April 1965
A young man still to find a place in the sun puts up an innocent bluff to a young girl he chances upon.
04 January 1981
A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine.
07 December 1984
In this rather routine, made-for-television movie by famed Indian director Mrinal Sen, an employee (K.
07 January 1981
Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people).
02 June 1986
This is a simple, straightforward tale about the rise and fall of human civilization that focuses solely on four characters: a farmer (Naseeruddin Shah), a weaver (Om Puri), a trader (M.
22 March 1991
When the elderly mother of a Kolkata middle-class family commits suicide, no one has the courage to read the old woman's diary.
09 December 1966
‘Joradighir Choudhury Paribar’ is the story of landlords, their ego, love and revenge. Despite ancestral differences, the Choudhury family’s landlord and Indrani, the landlady of Raktadaha decide to get married.
14 September 1989
Shasanka is a retired teacher who lives with his wife and two daughters. The family is thrown into an uproar after he goes out for a walk and disappears from their lives.
31 December 1982
A pre-teenager servant boy dies of carbon monoxide poisoning on a cold winter night in the kitchen.
01 July 1977
A British administrator with a flair for game hunting develops a friendship with a commoner who is an expert archer in an Indian village.
26 June 2012
Indian documentary about Indian film history and P. K. Nair, the founder of the National Film Archive of India and guardian of Indian cinema.
26 January 1990
A kaleidoscopic panorama of the world. A visual anthology of twelve short stories by twelve innovative directors from all over the world.
01 January 1965
Subrata joins his father's business that he quits due to ideological differences. What awaits his fate now?
01 April 2002
After Shokhina's marriage to Noor ends, she remarries Meher but faces many complications in her married life.
05 June 1979
The bread-winning daughter in a middle-class family fails to return from work one evening. The saga begins with worries at home, followed by midnight searches and finally a deepening crisis arising out of economic and moral constraints prevalent in the society.
01 April 1973
A Naxalite revolutionary escapes police custody and begins to question his beliefs whilst hiding out in a luxury apartment.
13 November 1971
A young Indian man has been assured by an uncle that all he needs to land a lucrative job is to show up to the interview in a Western style suit, but the morning of the interview is fraught with unexpected difficulties.
15 September 1961
Difficulties erupt between a couple when their relationship gets hit by societal pressures, norms, and deep-rooted patriarchy.
12 May 1969
Bhuvan Shome is a lonely widower, a proud old man and a strict disciplinarian. Looking back on the trodden path, strewn with staunch determination and drab attitudes, Bhuvan Shome, a thoroughly unenchanted man, seeks escape in a holiday.
31 January 1964
A young engineer marries a young widow with a child by her previous husband. In a society where taboos play a dominant role, the marital life, despite the best intentions, grows increasingly difficult and finally collapses.
11 January 1963
A film by Mrinal Sen.
31 December 1993
The mistress of a wealthy man, alone in her huge apartment and terribly lonely, phones strangers in the middle of the night.
01 January 1971
Based on a Bengali story, Gotrantar by Subodh Ghosh.
04 January 1974
A small company advertises for 100 vacancies and 30,000 apply. The applicants are all from the ranks of the poor and there is a virtual riot.
08 June 1984
Subhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village.
20 February 1959
Set in the turbulent 1930s, this is the story of a poor Chinese hawker selling his merchandise, Chinese silk, in the streets of Calcutta.
21 October 1955
Deeply influenced by leftist ideology, this film dealt with social and political themes: A poor village boy's hazardous experience in a rich urban family.
01 February 1979
After being accused wrongly of theft, a slightly addled servant runs away to the city, carrying as his only real possession an axe, which he claims to have killed a tiger with.
01 April 1960
The tragic story set in the late 1930s, just before famine struck Bengal. It tells of the marriage of a dumpy middle-aged salesman of small goods to a beautiful teenager, and how, after initial days of happiness together, a series of misfortunes strike which slowly embitter the man.
01 January 1970
A young boy wishes to switch roles with his father, and the wish is granted for a trial period. Mrinal Sen made this film for the Children's Film Society of India, based on a short story by Rabindranath Tagore.
01 April 1977
A father living on the fringes of a village believes that working is a fool's errand, for the lord takes what little the workers make.
08 September 1967
The greed for the possession of the family land destroys the affection and brotherhood between siblings, Baraju and Chakadi after their father, Shama Pradhan passes away.
01 January 1981
Drawing the history of the Indian talkie, starting with Alam Ara in 1931, this documentary short provides a cross-section of viewpoints from luminaries of the film industry, which give some insight into the contemporary commercial cinema and the parallel stream.
