Always Being Born!

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Nirad B. Bhattacharjee
(Mumbai, India)
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k niradbaran [At]gmail [Dot]com

Always Being Born

The Indian new wave started almost a decade later than the Italian new wave with Ray’s ‘Pather Panchali’.

This film ignited the imagination of a wave of budding filmmakers. Two other Bengali directors followed Ray and soon they became the famous new wave Bengal trio – the other two were Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen.
Ray was the most feted of the three and received almost all-important recognitions including the Lifetime Achievement Academy award. Ghatak has been acknowledged as the eccentric genius – the one who broke all possible rules of the film book to create his masterpieces. Posthumously his work became the cynosure of all film institute students. Mrinal Sen, …


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