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National Award-winner Kaushik Ganguly’s Palan is a sequel to Mrinal Sen s Kharij , the story of a Bhadralok couple whose apathy is responsible for a servant boy’s death. Taut and clear-eyed, Kharij won the jury prize at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
The birth centenary of Mrinal Sen, known for his humanist cinematic depiction of mass hunger, has fallen at a time when there are fresh deliberations on that horrific event of 1943
80 years since the 1943 Bengal famine, the unremembered story of People’s Age - the weekly magazine that commissioned photographer Sunil Janah and artist Chittaprosad Bhattacharya to document the devastation.