Author: Deepankar Mukhopadhyay
Publisher: HarperCollins/Indus
Year: 1995
Language: English
Pages: 292
ISBN/UPC (if available): 8172232136
Description
This is the first book on Mrinal Sen that links his art with his life and time. It is an intimate record of the development of this extraordinary film maker. Here for the first time, he comes out of his self-imposed 'Lakshmanrekha'.
Mrinal Sen, the stormy petrel of Indian Cinema, has often said that he became a film director by accident. In reality, he neither did nor ever wanted to do anything other than film making. Sen's entire life is a series of such apparent contradictions.
Mrinal Sen came to the limelight in the last Sixties with Bhuvan Shome, a film made out of a shoe-string budget and a simple storyline. This film inspired a whole generation of film makers and heralded, what is now called, the Parallel Cinema Movement in India.
As a film maker, Mrinal Sen grew up with his time and his films show the growth, development and moral dilemma of the middle class. A non-conformist from the beginning, he broke away from the commercial set-up of cinema, freely experimented with new styles and techniques of film making and even dared to cross swords with the legendary Satyajit Ray.
CONTENTS:
Preface
The Birth of a Film Maker
Early Films
The Years of Controversy
The Breakthrough
Years of Anger and Turbulence
The Period of Transition
The Return of the Prodigal
The Attempted Masterpiece
The Flight to Nowhere
Conclusion: The Line in Winter
Postscript / Appendix / Index
Contents
Preface
The Birth of a Film Maker
Early Films (1960-64)
The Years of Controversy (1965-66)
The Breakthrough (1969)
Years of Anger and Turbulence (1970-74)
The Period of Transition (1976-78)
The Return of the Prodigal (1979-83)
The Attempted Masterpiece (1986)
The Flight to Nowhere (1989-93)
Conclusion: The Lion in Winter
Postscript
Appendix
Index