3 OF THE BEST MRINAL SEN FILMS THAT YOU MUST WATCH
India has been on the forefront of the new boom in content, yet some rare gems can easily be overlooked!
In the last decade media has seen a lot of changes, everything from the way content is produced and also consumed has changed drastically. With this drastic change the attention spans of audiences have also significantly shortened. It is easy to forget in the current scenario, the past, where the screens were fewer and money circulating as the production budget was much lesser compared to what it is now. It was much harder to get a project sanctioned that seemed against the grain or beyond the scope of what was deemed normal. So Mrinal Sen made works of the beaten track that inspired countless creators after he was gone.
Mrinal Sen’s education in the medium was by being a member of a then famous theatre organisation that also had many other famous intellectuals as his companions and many of his contemporaries from the group later went to do great in their respective fields. Sen however took a road less travelled and decided to study the works of other masters in the mediums and other theorists to understand his medium in a more thorough way, a true practitioner of the art form. This list contains his works which are not the most popular but are great examples for how Mrinal Sen bent the medium and broke rules within a rigid art form during a time when getting a budget for one's vision that was experimental was next to impossible.
Padatik
Made during the height of political turbulence in Bengal, Padatik is the reflection of the times, Mrinal Sen uses a mix of art forms and also borrows heavily from features of the third cinema movement, this is a departure even in his work where the politics took over his senses and took over his the dialectics of his work and artistic, the film also has future stars that were unknowns at the time. This feature is a part of the third work in a trilogy and this book ends the series in dramatic fashion.
Ek Din PratiDin
This is a work against a biting mirror to the society itself, in this comment on the state of regular middle class society in Bengal with a very sharp commentary on the cultural hypocrisies prevalent in society. This film chronicles the events that follow after a young working woman doesn’t come home one night.
