Celebrating Mrinal Sen's centenary birth anniversary, "Mrinal Sen Retrospective" kicked off yesterday, May 14, and will run till May 19. Each day, the celebration will remember the legendary director by screening some of his most noted films.
The Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen (1923-2018) was the creator of socially conscious and rebellious films that challenged conventional mainstream philosophies. His work explored the lives, thoughts, and beliefs of both the middle class and bourgeois, as well as revolutionaries.
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.