FILM DIRECTOR

Mrinal Sen

1923 - 2018

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Mrinal Sen (14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work primarily in Bengali, and a few Hindi and Telugu language films. Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Tapan Sinha, Sen played a major role in the New Wave cinema of eastern India. Sen has received various national and international honors including eighteen Indian National Film Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mrinal Sen has received more than 994,921 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 31 in 2019). Mrinal Sen is the 752nd most popular film director (up from 993rd in 2019), the 28th most popular biography from Bangladesh (up from 32nd in 2019) and the most popular Bangladeshi Film Director.

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  • 33

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  • 2.38

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  • 4.25

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Mrinal Sen ranks 752 out of 2,041. Before him are Jerry Schatzberg, Alexandre Trauner, Rajko Grlić, Allan Dwan, Henry Selick, and Andrew Marton. After him are Ivan Passer, Erik Balling, Paul Scheuring, Stephen Daldry, Terence Fisher, and Ritwik Ghatak.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1923, Mrinal Sen ranks 237. Before him are Barney Kessel, Jacob Taubes, Betsy Blair, Alice Coachman, Rafael Addiego Bruno, and Og Mandino. After him are Mikhail Yegorov, Brendan Behan, Karl Vaino, Gordon R. Dickson, François Cavanna, and Netti Witziers-Timmer. Among people deceased in 2018, Mrinal Sen ranks 223. Before him are Arie den Hartog, Luis Posada Carriles, Sergey Litvinov, Juan Bautista Agüero, Stanley Cavell, and Kim Yong-chun. After him are Shehu Shagari, Inge Borkh, Domenico Losurdo, Otis Rush, Phan Văn Khải, and Morris Halle.

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In Bangladesh

Among people born in Bangladesh, Mrinal Sen ranks 28 out of 74. Before him are Mahasweta Devi (1926), Shahabuddin Ahmed (1930), Radhabinod Pal (1886), S. D. Burman (1906), Khondaker Mostaq Ahmad (1918), and Patrick D'Rozario (1943). After him are A. K. Fazlul Huq (1873), Fakhruddin Ahmed (1940), Ritwik Ghatak (1925), Taslima Nasrin (1962), Kalpana Datta (1913), and Humayun Ahmed (1948).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In Bangladesh

Among film directors born in Bangladesh, Mrinal Sen ranks 1. After him are Ritwik Ghatak (1925), and Bimal Roy (1909).

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Filmography

In Search of Famine
Director
A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.
Jan 4o 19816.9 / 10
Suddenly, One Day
Director
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. Each member of the family reviews her final hours and days with him to try and discover what, if anything led to his disappearance.
Sep 14o 19896.7 / 10
Calcutta 71
Director
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. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.
Oct 12o 19728.7 / 10