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Articles for Mrinal Sen

A fine actor remembered
10 months ago

A fine actor remembered

Hindustan Times  

Sadhu Meher, who died on 2 February, made his debut in Shyam Benegal’s Ankur with Shabana Azmi and won the National Film Award for Best Actor that year. What made you to choose Sadhu Meher in your first feature film?Sadhu Meher is an extremely fine actor and approaches his role in any film by detailing his part with great diligence. …

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Bengali actor Sreela Majumdar, who was the voice for Aishwarya Rai in Chokher Bali, dies at 65
10 months, 3 weeks ago

Bengali actor Sreela Majumdar, who was the voice for Aishwarya Rai in Chokher Bali, dies at 65

Hindustan Times  

Noted Bengali actor actor Sreela Majumdar, who was considered a favourite of serious filmmakers such as Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal and Prakash Jha, died at her Kolkata residence on Saturday, her family said. Condoling her death, West Bengal Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee said Sreela was a powerful actor who played outstanding roles in several significant Indian films. Sreela Majumdar was …

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Revisiting An Actress in her Time by Karuna Banerjee
11 months, 1 week ago

Revisiting An Actress in her Time by Karuna Banerjee

Hindustan Times  

Karuna Banerjee would have celebrated her 104th birth anniversary on December 25. Who is Karuna Banerjee? Karuna Banerjee in a scene from Aparajito, the second film in Satyajit Ray’s Apu Trilogy. Among these is an interview published in the Indian Express, an unpublished letter to Dileep Padgaonkar in response to his editorial in the Times of India on the student …

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Solving Manipur crisis, how men came to rule, Mrinal Sen@100 and more
1 year, 3 months ago

Solving Manipur crisis, how men came to rule, Mrinal Sen@100 and more

The Hindu  

Welcome to this edition of The Hindu on Books Newsletter. In his new book, Northeast India: A Political History, which was written before the current flare-up of tensions in Manipur, Samrat Choudhury points out that “Manipur remains suspended in an uneasy peace, prone to descending into fraternal conflict just as it was a thousand years ago, in the days when …

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Interview with Kunal Sen on his book Bondhu about his filmmaker father Mrinal Sen
1 year, 4 months ago

Interview with Kunal Sen on his book Bondhu about his filmmaker father Mrinal Sen

The Hindu  

Bondhu is Kunal Sen’s first book. That’s how Kunal addressed his father, renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen, who would have turned 100 this year. They also shared a common ideology: that of making the world a fairer and better place to live, and believed films could be a way to talk about such ideas. Throughout his career, he never made more …

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Mrinal Sen: Memory, history, and political commentary
1 year, 4 months ago

Mrinal Sen: Memory, history, and political commentary

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 10, 2023 11:00 IST - 14 MINS READ In this article, I wish to draw attention to some of the recurring themes and motifs of Mrinal Sen’s diverse oeuvre. “The story of the mother who betrays her children in Calcutta ’71 is located within the vortex of multi-layered narratives, generated by referencing other films and texts, thereby …

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INTERVIEW | ‘There was no difference between the filmmaker and the man’: Dhritiman Chaterji on Mrinal Sen
1 year, 4 months ago

INTERVIEW | ‘There was no difference between the filmmaker and the man’: Dhritiman Chaterji on Mrinal Sen

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 10, 2023 11:00 IST - 4 MINS READ As we approached Mrinal Sen’s birth centenary earlier this year, we saw a rash of celebrations. So, going back to my earlier point, do these celebrations reignite the interest in Mrinal Sen and his work? I feel that in the pantheon of Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, and Ritwik Ghatak, …

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‘To everyone Mrinal Sen was bondhu (friend)‘: Avik Mukhopadhyay - Frontline
1 year, 4 months ago

‘To everyone Mrinal Sen was bondhu (friend)‘: Avik Mukhopadhyay - Frontline

The Hindu  

The famed cinematographer, who worked with the master in his last film Aamaar Bhuvan, says Sen never stopped trying to break the stereotype. I asked Mrinal da which particular movie he was thinking of, and he said Que Viva Mexico. When Mrinal da started making films, most filmmakers were committed to the idea of realism. Mrinal da probably realised that …

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Editor’s Note: Mrinal Sen shattered our illusions about life and cinema
1 year, 4 months ago

Editor’s Note: Mrinal Sen shattered our illusions about life and cinema

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 10, 2023 11:00 IST - 3 MINS READ I recently watched a Punjabi mini-series called Kohrra, an astonishingly well-made crime thriller set in a fictional small town. Don’t get me wrong; one doesn’t expect gritty reality from, say, Karan Johar, whose candyfloss movies set in la-la lands inhabited by very rich and very silly people are top …

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INTERVIEW | ‘Mrinal Sen’s stark images transformed me’: Shoojit Sircar
1 year, 4 months ago

INTERVIEW | ‘Mrinal Sen’s stark images transformed me’: Shoojit Sircar

The Hindu  

Published : Aug 10, 2023 11:00 IST - 3 MINS READ Mrinal Sen put India’s new wave cinema on the world map. If Satyajit Ray is one of my bibles of filmmaking, I draw inspiration from Mrinal Sen’s presentation of realism. I grew up in Delhi, and amidst the onslaught of Bollywood productions and Bengali potboilers, Mrinal Sen’s stark images …

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From Paradise Café to political cinema: Mrinal Sen’s radical journey
1 year, 4 months ago

From Paradise Café to political cinema: Mrinal Sen’s radical journey

The Hindu  

His films defied party allegiance and national cinema norms, identifying sectarianism as the true adversary. New cinema Sen’s films from the 1970s, Interview, Calcutta 71, Padatik and Chorus, recorded the pulse of those radical times more than any other body of films one can think of. “The predilection for internationalism must have come to him from his formative experience, the …

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BOOK EXCERPT | 100 Years of Mrinal Sen: An excerpt from Mrinal Sen’s memoir ‘Always Being Born’ on his centenary
1 year, 7 months ago

BOOK EXCERPT | 100 Years of Mrinal Sen: An excerpt from Mrinal Sen’s memoir ‘Always Being Born’ on his centenary

The Hindu  

On the legendary filmmaker’s centenary, an excerpt from his memoir Always Being Born which talks about his relationship with Calcutta. “I am a filmmaker by accident and an author by compulsion,” claimed Mrinal Sen, part of the triumvirate of Bengali cinema—along with Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak—who founded the Indian New Wave. The timeframe is the glory days of the …

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Interview: Shivam Nair – ‘In OTT, writing is the hero; the story is the hero’
2 years, 6 months ago

Interview: Shivam Nair – ‘In OTT, writing is the hero; the story is the hero’

Hindustan Times  

I was born in a nondescript village in Kerala, which didn’t even have electricity earlier. From there, my by-then Bihari mind found a way to reach Mrinal Sen. Mrinal Sen spoke to me politely and told me he wouldn’t mind my working with him but he explained his financial situation and said that he and his family themselves were not …

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Unstated politics: The political statements in Satyajit Ray's films
3 years, 2 months ago

Unstated politics: The political statements in Satyajit Ray's films

The Hindu  

Soumitra Chattopadhyay, who starred in 14 of Satyajit Ray’s 30 full-length feature films, once wrote a message for a very young fan on a DVD cover of Hirak Rajar Deshe : “One day you will grow up and start seeing these films in new light. There is a theory that the “Calcutta trilogy” was Ray’s answer to a point being …

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Subterranean parallels: Common threads between Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak
3 years, 2 months ago

Subterranean parallels: Common threads between Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen and Ritwik Ghatak

The Hindu  

For decades, the cine culture of West Bengal has shown a couple of apparently contradictory symptoms: upholding the ‘Ray-Ghatak-Sen’ triumvirate as a sort of holy pantheon within which the cinematic glory of the region is limited and, in more intellectual circuits, pitting Satyajit Ray against Ritwik Ghatak as cultural icons. When we remember Ray, Ghatak and Mrinal Sen, we remember …

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‘Ray’s vision is universal’: Girish Kasaravalli on Satyajit Ray
3 years, 2 months ago

‘Ray’s vision is universal’: Girish Kasaravalli on Satyajit Ray

The Hindu  

Girish Kasaravalli, Kannada film director, is one of the pioneers of ‘parallel cinema’ in India. I do not think that the films of Ray had such a huge impact on India’s mainstream cinema, for the simple reason that his films, which were in Bengali, were not accessible to film practitioners of other languages, especially those from the south. Ray’s cosmopolitan …

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Vision of a land: Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay's Bengal in Satyajit Ray's cinema
3 years, 2 months ago

Vision of a land: Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay's Bengal in Satyajit Ray's cinema

The Hindu  

In the middle of a great political unrest, in 1972, Satyajit Ray decided to return to Bibhutibhusan Bandopadhyay, whose novels he had adapted into the Apu Trilogy. He expressed his deep admiration for Bibhutibhusan on more than one occasion, for the “encyclopedia of life in rural Bengal” he created, and for the amazingly authentic speech he used for his characters. …

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Revisiting Mrinal Sen’s ‘Calcutta ’71’
3 years, 4 months ago

Revisiting Mrinal Sen’s ‘Calcutta ’71’

The Hindu  

FOR almost three decades from the 1950s, the masterly trio of Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen struggled to convince “the new Bengali viewer” of the possibility of imagining, or sensing, other universes than those he or she had been exposed to until then. The style, the narrative, the aesthetics or the sociopolitical thrust of Mrinal Sen’s “famine films”, …

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Remembering Mrinal Sen on his 98th birth anniversary
3 years, 7 months ago

Remembering Mrinal Sen on his 98th birth anniversary

The Hindu  

For a filmmaker whose creations are deeply rooted in realism and explore heavy societal themes often from a cynical perspective, Mrinal Sen was obsessed with Charlie Chaplin and his antics as the lovable tramp. While Satyajit Ray’s first cinematic offering Pather Panchali released to worldwide acclaim the same year, Sen was still reeling from the failure of his inaugural magnum …

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Soumitra Chatterjee: the poet and the activist behind the actor
4 years, 1 month ago

Soumitra Chatterjee: the poet and the activist behind the actor

Live Mint  

You learn more about a culture when you notice who they mourn. But Ray’s artistry needed a face, and that was the winsome Chatterjee – as Apu, in Apur Sansar, he is fondling the hairpin on his pillow soon after his unexpected marriage with Aparna ; and after her death, the pathos he personifies as he goes to the top …

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