![]() ![]() Although he never became a member of the party, his association with the socialist Indian People's Theatre Association brought him close to a number of like-minded culturally associated people.Įarly interest in cinema Sen's interest in films started after he stumbled upon a book on film aesthetics. As a student, he got involved with the cultural wing of the Communist Party of India. He studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College, and subsequently earned a postgraduate degree at the University of Calcutta. After finishing high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student. Sen was born on, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. Experimentation recognition and acclaim. ![]() Social context and its political influence. ![]() Mrinal Sen is an ardent follower of Marxist Philosophy. Although the three directors shared a healthy rivalry, they were ardent admirers of each other's work, and in so doing, they charted the independent trajectory of parallel cinema, as a counterpoint to the mainstream fare of Hindi cinema in India. Like the works of Ray and Ghatak, his cinema is known for its artistic depiction of social reality. Along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, he is often considered to be one of the greatest ambassadors of Indian parallel cinema on the global stage. Mrinal Sen (also spelled Mrinal Shen, born ) is a legendary Indian filmmaker based in Kolkata. ![]()
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