Masterpieces of Maestro Mrinal Sen
Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, and Tapan Sinha, Sen played major role in the New Wave cinema of eastern India.
Mrinal Sen has been awarded 4 times.
He is also the only recipient to win the award for directing films in two different languages: Bengali and Hindi
1.Bhuvan Shome
2.Ek Din Pratidin
3.Akaler Sandhane
4.Khandhar
He has won the National Film Award 18 times, next only to Ray.
The Government of India has awarded him the Padma Bhushan, and the Government of France has awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, while Russian Government awarded him Order of Friendship.
Sen was also awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
He was the only Indian filmmaker along with Satyajit Ray whose films have been awarded at the big three film festivals namely the Cannes film festival, Venice Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival.
Mrinal Sen has been awarded 4 times.
He is also the only recipient to win the award for directing films in two different languages: Bengali and Hindi
1.Bhuvan Shome
2.Ek Din Pratidin
3.Akaler Sandhane
4.Khandhar
He has won the National Film Award 18 times, next only to Ray.
The Government of India has awarded him the Padma Bhushan, and the Government of France has awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, while Russian Government awarded him Order of Friendship.
Sen was also awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award.
He was the only Indian filmmaker along with Satyajit Ray whose films have been awarded at the big three film festivals namely the Cannes film festival, Venice Film Festival and the Berlin Film Festival.
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- DirectorMrinal SenStarsChhabi BiswasUttam KumarChhayadeviA poor village boy's hazardous experience in a rich urban family.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsKali BannerjeeManju DeySmriti BiswasA poor Chinese hawker, Wang Lu, sells his merchandise, China silk in the streets of Calcutta.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsGyanesh MukherjeeMadhavi MukherjeeHemangini DeviThe story set in the late 1930s in a remote village in Bengal, immediately before World War II. It portrays how poverty, famine, unemployment kills humanity.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSavitri ChatterjeeAsitbaranAnup Kumar
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeAparna SenSubhendu ChatterjeeAjay Sarkar, a lower middle-class man pretends to be a successful businessman in order to win the hand of Monica, a girl from an affluent family.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSujata AnandDhira BiswalBhanumati DeviThe greed for the possession of the family land destroys the affection and brotherhood between siblings, Baraju and Chakadi after their father, Shama Pradhan passes away.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsUtpal DuttSuhasini MulayShekhar ChatterjeeA lonely bureaucrat goes on holiday to a Gujarat village where a young peasant woman helps him see beyond his job and develop a newfound empathy for people.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsKaruna BannerjeeShekhar ChatterjeeRanjit MallickRanjit cannot get a middle-class job just because he cannot get hold of a suit.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsMadhavi MukherjeeGita SenBinota RoyAn angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsDhritiman ChatterjeeSimi GarewalPravas SarkarA political activist escapes the prison van and is sheltered in a posh apartment owned by a sensitive young woman.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsUtpal DuttAjit BanerjeeShekhar ChatterjeeIt begins like a fairy tale. It starts with a ritual. A bard appears on the screen and sings.Glory be the new gods who have descended to the Earth.The chairman of the gods, concerned over the problem of want, arranges for a hundred jobs. But thousands queue for them. Too many people, too many faces, too many problems. The crowd gets disillusioned and popular discontent is mobilized as word spreads that this is just another hoax. The Chorus as well as performing the traditional role of the storyteller provides the political message, juxtaposing stylization and caricature with neo-realist and documentary sequences and direct address to the camera.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsMithun ChakrabortyMamata ShankarRobert WrightIn the 1930s, a group of tribals live in a small village in a forest in Odisha. A British administrator arrives at the village who is passionate about hunting. He befriends Ghinua, an exceptional archer.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsKrishna A.R.Pradeep KumarG. Narayana RaoThe father of a son living on the fringes of a village believes that working is a fools game, for the lord takes what little the workers make. When a young woman enters their home tensions begin to rise and their idle life is threatened.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsArun MukherjeeBibhas ChakrabortySreela MajumdarA rural migrant comes to the city and shares a temporary shelter with an old beggar in an abandoned graveyard.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSatya BannerjeeGita SenMamata ShankarThe daughter of an economically middle-class family fails to return home one night.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSatya BanerjeeRadhamohan BhattacharyaDhritiman ChatterjeeA film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsAnjan DuttUtpal DuttArun MukherjeeA young ebullient and sensitive Calcuttan meets the editor of a leading newspaper and is assigned to 'do' a newsy yet intimate story of his own middle class milieu within two days. The young man, endowed with erratic enthusiasm, sets every bit of situation he comes across to critical analysis, but fails to build a wholesome reportage. Utterly desperate, he even acts as catalyst but with no tangible effect. In a confused state of mind he dreams an absurd dream full of fury and a deep annoyance at the bourgeoisie. What follows is a second meeting with the editor and an inevitable compromise.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsAnjan DuttMamata ShankarSreela MajumdarThe servant boy, a minor, engaged in a middle class family dies mysteriously locked in a kitchen.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiAnnu KapoorPankaj KapurSubhash is a photographer from the city, who has come to take pictures of some old temples and ruins in a village. Ruins fascinate him. While in the village, he gets acquainted with a young woman, Jamini, who has had her heart broken in the past, by another visitor from the big city. Will history repeat itself, or will she find a way out of the ruins at last?
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiNaseeruddin ShahOm PuriA parable of man's exploitation of his fellow man. A weaver and a farmer live peacefully on the edge of a desert until, one day, a woman wanders into their world, and her presence slowly disrupts their routine existence.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsShabana AzmiShreeram LagooAparna SenA retired professor suddenly goes missing. Time passes by, life goes on, but his children and wife keep on looking back, trying to find their way through emotional torrents of the past and the present.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsVictor BanerjeeSoumitra ChatterjeeAnjan DuttAn elderly lady has three sons and a daughter, all consumed in their lives, failing miserably. She struggles to see her children have affairs, lose their jobs, their mental stability, and with one of her child's death, and is driven to end her life. But should the loss of others lead you commit suicide?
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsAnjan DuttDimple KapadiaTathagata SanyalA writer moves into the palatial house of a friend to find creative inspiration. A chance telephonic chat with a mysterious woman blossoms into love as he finally finds what he was looking for.
- DirectorMrinal SenStarsSaswata ChatterjeeNandita DasKaushik SenA triangle love story between viz Meher (Kaushik Sen), Noor (Saswato Chaterjee) and Sakina (Nandita Das).