Posts Tagged ‘Mrinal Sen’

  • The Requiem Or the Dream ?
    “What man of you, having an hundred sheep if he lose one of them, doth not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness, and go after that which is lost, until he find it?” Luke 15:4 Whether it’s Paulo Coelho’s “The Alchemist” or “The Zahir“, the recurrent dream, the pursuit of a goal has been a winner’s...
    by Subhasish Chakraborty at May 27th, 2009 at 02:05 pm
  • 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...
    by Rk at March 17th, 2009 at 10:03 pm
  • Always Being Born!
    iView Author: Nirad B. Bhattacharjee (Mumbai, India) EMAIL: 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...
    by PROJEKT iVIEW at May 9th, 2008 at 02:05 am