MRINAL SEN-60 Years In Search Of Cinema
Book Details
Author(s)Dipankar Mukhopadhyay
PublisherHarperCollins Publishers India
ISBN / ASINB00ID32Y5U
ISBN-13978B00ID32Y58
Sales Rank2,360,112
MarketplaceUnited States 🇺🇸
Description
‘[Sen] has traced the social and political ferment of India with greater resilience and audacity than any other contemporary Indian director.’
—Derek Malcolm, film critic and scholar
The stormy petrel of Indian cinema, the maverick maestro, Mrinal Sen is one of India’s finest film-makers and one of its most renowned in international circles. Beginning his career as an audio technician in a Calcutta studio, Sen made a rather inauspicious feature debut with Raatbhore (1955), a film he prefers to forget. He found his feet with critically acclaimed features Baishey Shravana (1960) and Akash Kusum (1965). The unprecedented success of Bhuvan Shome (1969) marked a turning point in Sen’s career, inspiring a whole new generation of film-makers and heralding the ‘New Cinema’ movement in India.
In this classic biography, originally published as The Maverick Maestro, Dipankar Mukhopadhyay recounts the life and times of an iconic film-maker, from his association with the Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association, which shaped his world view, to his early experiences and frustrations as a film-maker. He also charts the development of Mrinal Sen from an overtly political film-maker in the early 1970s, whose works reflected the unrest of the era, to a more contemplative one, intimately concerned with the moral dilemmas of the Indian middle class.
Warm and insightful, Mrinal Sen: Sixty Years in Search of Cinema is an invaluable portrait of an uncompromising artist who broke established norms of film-making and freely experimented with new styles and techniques of creative expression.
—Derek Malcolm, film critic and scholar
The stormy petrel of Indian cinema, the maverick maestro, Mrinal Sen is one of India’s finest film-makers and one of its most renowned in international circles. Beginning his career as an audio technician in a Calcutta studio, Sen made a rather inauspicious feature debut with Raatbhore (1955), a film he prefers to forget. He found his feet with critically acclaimed features Baishey Shravana (1960) and Akash Kusum (1965). The unprecedented success of Bhuvan Shome (1969) marked a turning point in Sen’s career, inspiring a whole new generation of film-makers and heralding the ‘New Cinema’ movement in India.
In this classic biography, originally published as The Maverick Maestro, Dipankar Mukhopadhyay recounts the life and times of an iconic film-maker, from his association with the Indian Peoples’ Theatre Association, which shaped his world view, to his early experiences and frustrations as a film-maker. He also charts the development of Mrinal Sen from an overtly political film-maker in the early 1970s, whose works reflected the unrest of the era, to a more contemplative one, intimately concerned with the moral dilemmas of the Indian middle class.
Warm and insightful, Mrinal Sen: Sixty Years in Search of Cinema is an invaluable portrait of an uncompromising artist who broke established norms of film-making and freely experimented with new styles and techniques of creative expression.
