It was around this time that Satyajit Ray – Pratidwandi (The Adversary), Seemabaddha (Company Limited), and Jana Aranya (The Middleman) and Mrinal Sen… National Film Award for Best Feature Film; National Film Award for Best Cinematography (Black-and-white) – K. K. Mahajan; National Film Award for Best Music Direction – Ananda Shankar tried to move away from the narrative structure and worked with very thin story lines. Only a cinematic prescient like Ray could have chosen the small village of Boral as the Nischindipur model that was located in the outskirts of Calcutta near Garia in South 24 Parganas. Phalke Award, the highest honor given to an Indian filmmaker, by the Mrinal Sen was born on May 14th, 1923 in Faridpur, a district town now in modern Bangladesh. Sen is one of his nation's most politically active filmakers. The Representative Mrinal Sen, 1964. In Kolkata, he was heavily influenced by Marxism and joined the Indian People’s Theatre Association (IPTA) the cultural front of the Communist Party of India. Mrinal Sen, Director: Chorus. This is her second film with Mrinal Sen, after a long gap since Baishe Shravana. Mrinal Sen made a U-turn with his next films, in the process ushering a whole new genre of films in Indian cinema: the directly political film, in what came to be known as his Calcutta Trilogy: Interview (1970), Calcutta 71 (1972) and Padatik. // --> , . He received the Padma Bhushan, and in 2005 he was awarded the Dadasaheb ((navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer") && // -->. Neel Akasher Nichey (Under the Blue Sky), earned him local recognition, while his third film, In the mid-1940s he joined the Indian People's Theatre Association and at that time began to read about and study film. His next few films were overtly political, and earned him the reputation as a Marxist artist. and Letters), the highest honor conferred by the country. Born in Faridpur, Bengal, in 1923, Mrinal Sen has directed more than thirty features, documentaries, and television films in a career that stretches over more than five decades. nationally and internationally. if(MSFPhover) { MSFPnav9n=MSFPpreload("_derived/films_on_mrinal_sen.htm_cmp_classic110_hbtn.gif"); MSFPnav9h=MSFPpreload("_derived/films_on_mrinal_sen.htm_cmp_classic110_hbtn_a.gif"); } Mrinal Sen blowing miniature leaflets on a scale model of the castle. Mrinal Sen. Ritwik Ghatak. But thousands queue for them. Books by Mrinal Sen. Montage Mrinal Sen. About the Author. The fidelity with which Ray had chartered Bandopadhyay’s trail left his own contemporaries like Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen overwhelmed. Gender: MALE NPI: 1427393065 Last Updated: 2018-09-05 : Certification Date: Details. After finishing his school in Faridpur, Sen came to Kolkata to study physics. In an interview published way back in 2005, Mrinal alleged that Smita died because of gross medical negligence. // -->