Mrinal Sen

director · 1923–2018 · Golden Age

Akaler Sandhane won the Silver Bear at Berlin 1981; Kharij won the Special Jury Prize at Cannes 1983 — one of the few directors honored at Cannes, Venice and Berlin.

20 films catalogued20 directed

The most politically urgent of Bengal's great triumvirate — restless, self-questioning films on middle-class complacency across a 50-year career.

Defining films

Bhuvan Shome (1969) · Calcutta 71 (1972) · Akaler Sandhane (1980) · Kharij (1982)

Directed (20)

The Dawn

1955 · Golden Age

Under the Blue Sky

1959 · Golden Age

The Wedding Day

1960 · Golden Age

Punashcha

1961 · Golden Age

And at Last

1963 · Golden Age

The Representative

1964 · Golden Age

Up in the Clouds

1965 · Golden Age

The Wish Fulfilment

1970 · Parallel Cinema

Interview

1971 · Parallel Cinema

Calcutta 71

1972 · Parallel Cinema

The Guerrilla Fighter

1973 · Parallel Cinema

Chorus

1974 · Parallel Cinema

Ek Din Pratidin

1979 · Parallel Cinema

The Man with the Axe

1979 · Parallel Cinema

In Search of Famine

1981 · Parallel Cinema

Kaleidoscope

1981 · Parallel Cinema

Kharij

1982 · Parallel Cinema

World Within, World Without

1991 · Mainstream 80s-90s

The Confined

1993 · Mainstream 80s-90s

This, My Land

2002 · Bengali Renaissance