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Director

Mrinal Sen

British India · b. 14 May 1923 – d. 30 December 2018

Critical Essay (Excerpt)

If you cannot bear these stories then it is society that is unbearable. Who am I to remove the clothes of this society, which itself is naked. I don’t even try to cover it, because it is not my job, that’s the job of dressmakers.

Source: Senses of Cinema — Great Directors

Filmography (32)

This, My Land 2002

And the Show Goes On 1996

The Confined 1993

World Within, World Without 1991

City Life 1990

Ek Din Achanak 1989

Genesis 1986

Portrait of an Average Man 1984

The Ruins 1984

The Case Is Closed 1982

Kaleidoscope 1981

In Search of Famine 1981

The Man with the Axe 1979

And Quiet Rolls the Dawn 1979

Oka Oori Katha 1977

The Royal Hunt 1977

Chorus 1974

The Guerrilla Fighter 1973

Calcutta 71 1972

Interview 1971

An Unfinished Story 1971

The Wish Fulfilment 1970

Bhuvan Shome 1969

Two Brothers 1967

Moving Perspectives 1967

Up in the Clouds 1965

The Representative 1964

And at Last 1963

Over Again 1961

The Wedding Day 1960

Under the Blue Sky 1959

The Dawn 1955