FILM DIRECTOR

Mrinal Sen

1923 - 2018

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Mrinal Sen (14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was a Bengali 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 India. Sen 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 1,013,506 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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  • 50.95

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 33

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.38

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.25

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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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