Mrinal Sen: Mini retrospective at Cannes is not possible
A mini retrospective of the famous film maker Mr Mrinal Sen, winner of prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award, at Cannes is not possible because most of his representative films are in bad conditions.
Padam Bushan Mrinal Sen says
“The festival authorities had zeroed in on my Calcutta trilogy films on the situation in the 70s – namely Interview, Calcutta 71 and Padatik – for a mini retrospective, but the negatives were found to be in very bad shape”.
“Almost all my films are in bad or very bad condition as they were not preserved properly. What can I do? Perhaps my films will also fade away when I leave,”
Its sad to see the pathetic condition of films of filmmakers who are pride of India. When this country will learn the importance of preservation of the art and other important things?
Tags: Cannes, Culcutta 71, Dada Saheb Phalke, Intrview, Mrinal Sen, Padatik, World Cinema
Anurag Kashyap
Abhay Deol
Dibakar Banerjee
Hansal Mehta
Khalid Mohamed
Kundan Shah
Anish Kuruvilla
Jaideep Verma
Manish Gupta
Navdeep Singh
Bhavani Iyer
D. Santosh
Onir
Ashvin Kumar
Ramu Ramanathan
Sudhir Mishra
Pankaj Advani
Revathy
Saurabh Shukla
Shilpa Shukla
Sujoy Ghosh
Suparn Verma
Santosh Sivan
Shashank Ghosh
Shivajee
Pavan Kaul
Partho Sen-Gupta
Prroshant Naryannan
Sam Langoria
Satish Kasetty
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Why isn’t there a DVD of English, August ?
Is there a simple answer to this question? I wish there were.
The negative has been damaged because of ridiculously poor storage at Prasad Labs, Madras.
The restoration costs have skyrocketed and no one wants to pay for this.