Remains Sen's best film, an example of his little-used talents asĬonditions of near civil war in Calcutta in the late 1960s led to three The film is shot among sand dunes and sugarcane fieldsĪnd reveals Sen's skill at sustaining a simple narrative. Gujarat and only later discovers that the girl is married to the offending Manner by Utpal Dutt) is charmed by a country girl while on holiday in The prudish railway official (played in a restrained slapstick The film describes a railway official'sĮncounter with the wife of a ticket collector under fire for acceptingīribes. , he came to be known throughout India for the comic Interposing the claims of respectability on matters of survival.Īlthough Sen established a reputation in Bengal with , Sen suggests that a bourgeois mentality makes bad conditions worse by Unlike Ray, however, Sen's attitude had less Nothing in his films touched up the drabness of Sen filmed peopleĪt the ragged edge of society, using natural locations and employing Neorealists and of Satayajit Ray's first films. Sen's early films testify to the influences of the Italian Making political films, films which point to prevailing injustices and The style of his films variesĬonsiderably, and even within individual films his achievement is uneven,īut the body of his work adds up to an important attempt in India at Mrinal Sen's work is distinguished by the attention he pays to the Ten Days in Calcutta: A Portrait of Mrinal Sen
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