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Kaleidoscope
INDIA · 1981

Kaleidoscope

Mrinal Sen
journalism daily life observation creative struggle family dynamics narrative fragmentation
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Synopsis

Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simp

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