Editing Mrinal Sen

{{Short description|Indian film director (1923–2018)}}
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{{Infobox person
| name               = Mrinal Sen
| image              = Mrinal-sen.jpg
| honorific_suffix   = [[Member of Parliament|MP]]
| caption            = 
| birth_name         = 
| birth_date         = {{Birth date|1923|5|14|df=y}}
| birth_place        = [[Faridpur, Bangladesh|Faridpur]], [[Bengal Presidency]], [[British India]] (now [[Faridpur, Bangladesh|Faridpur]], [[Bangladesh]])
| death_date         = {{death date and age|2018|12|30|1923|5|14|df=y}}<ref>{{Cite news |date=2019-01-03 |title=Mrinal Sen, One of India's Leading Directors, Dies at 95 (Published 2019) |work=The New York Times |language=en |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/obituaries/mrinal-sen-dead.html |access-date=2023-08-13 |last1=Genzlinger |first1=Neil }}</ref>
| death_place        = [[Bhawanipore]], [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[India]]
| alma_mater         = [[University of Calcutta]]
| occupation         = Director
| years_active       = 1955–2002
| works              = [[#Filmography|Filmography]]
| spouse             = {{marriage|Gita Sen|1952|2017|reason=died}}
| awards             = {{plainlist|
* [[Padma Bhushan]] (1983)
* [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] (1985)
* [[Order of Friendship]] (2000)
* [[Dadasaheb Phalke Award]] (2003) 
}}
| module             = {{infobox officeholder|embed=yes
|office1 = 6th President of [[Film and Television Institute of India]]
| term_start1 = 9 April 1984
| term_end1   = 30 September 1986
| predecessor1 = [[Shyam Benegal]]
| successor1 = [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]
| office          = [[Member of Parliament (India)|Member of Parliament]], [[Rajya Sabha]]<br/>(nominated)
| term_start      = 27 August 1997
| term_end        = 26 August 2003 
}}
}}

'''Mrinal Sen''' ({{IPA|en|mrɪˈnɑːl}} {{IPA|bn|/mriːˈnal/}}; 14 May 1923 – 30 December 2018) was a Bengali [[film director]] and screenwriter known for his work primarily in [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali]], and a few [[Hindi cinema|Hindi]] and [[Telugu cinema|Telugu]] language films. Regarded as one of the finest Indian filmmakers, along with his contemporaries [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Ritwik Ghatak]], and [[Tapan Sinha]], Sen played a major role in India's [[parallel cinema]] movement, which offered a realistic, socially aware counterpoint to splashy [[Bollywood]] films, as well as in the country's New Wave cinema.<ref name=":1" /><ref name=rediff>{{cite web |url=http://us.rediff.com/movies/2005/feb/02mrinal.htm |title=Memories from Mrinalda |date=1 February 2005 |work=Rediff |publisher=Rediff.com |access-date=27 January 2010 |archive-date=18 September 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100918004355/http://us.rediff.com/movies/2005/feb/02mrinal.htm |url-status=live }}</ref> He also served as the President of [[Film and Television Institute of India|FTII]] from 1984 to 1986.

Sen received various national and international honors including eighteen Indian [[National Film Awards]]. The Government of India honored him with the [[Padma Bhushan]], and the Government of France honored him with the [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]], while Russian Government honored him with the [[Order of Friendship]]. Sen was also awarded the [[Dadasaheb Phalke Award]], the highest award for filmmakers in India.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/artist/mrinal-sen|title=Mrinal SEN - Festival de Cannes 2021|website=festival-cannes.com|access-date=25 February 2022|archive-date=28 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628172955/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/artist/mrinal-sen|url-status=live}}</ref>

He was one of the few Indian filmmakers to have won awards at the big three film festivals viz., [[Cannes Film Festival|Cannes]], [[Venice Film Festival|Venice]] and the [[Berlin Film Festival|Berlinale]].<ref name=rediff/><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/artist/mrinal-sen|title=Mrinal SEN - Festival de Cannes 2021|website=festival-cannes.com|access-date=25 February 2022|archive-date=28 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210628172955/https://www.festival-cannes.com/en/artist/mrinal-sen|url-status=live}}</ref> Sen was a self described "private [[Marxist]]".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thestatesman.com/entertainment/mrinal-sen-accidental-filmmaker1502720904.html#:~:text=While%20studying%20in%20college%2C%20Mrinal,called%20himself%20a%20'private%20Marxist'&text=Mrinal%20Sen%20has%20often%20been%20called%20the%20%E2%80%9Caccidental%20filmmaker%E2%80%9D. |title=Mrinal Sen — the 'accidental filmmaker'|author=Tuhina Mondol  |date=31 December 2018|work=[[The Statesman (India)|The Statesman]] |access-date=27 January 2020}}</ref>

==Early life==
Mrinal was born into a Hindu family in [[Faridpur District|Faridpur district, East Bengal]]—now [[Bangladesh]]. His father, Dineshchandra Sen, was a lawyer who supported Indian freedom fighters.<ref name=":0" /> His mother was Saraju Sen.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bergan |first=Ronald |date=2019-01-07 |title=Mrinal Sen obituary |url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/07/mrinal-sen-obituary |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240710224001/https://www.theguardian.com/film/2019/jan/07/mrinal-sen-obituary |archive-date=July 10, 2024 |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=[[The Guardian]] |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>

In the early 1940s, Mrinal moved to [[Kolkata]] to study physics at [[Scottish Church College]].<ref name=":1">{{Cite news |last=Genzlinger |first=Neil |date=2019-01-03 |title=Mrinal Sen, One of India's Leading Directors, Dies at 95 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/obituaries/mrinal-sen-dead.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230813112943/https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/03/obituaries/mrinal-sen-dead.html |archive-date=August 13, 2023 |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=The New York Times |language=en-US |issn=0362-4331}}</ref> Like many middle-class students of the time, he was drawn to student politics, public theatre, and the struggle to find work. After [[Partition of India|Partition in 1947]], his family settled in Kolkata permanently.<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal |last=মুখোপাধ্যায় |first=সঞ্জয় |date=January 17, 2019 |title=সময়ের আয়না ও মৃণাল সেন |journal=[[Desh (magazine)|Desh]] |issue=6 |pages=22–23}}</ref>

A voracious reader, he spent hours at the [[National Library of India]] (then the Imperial Library), reading books amid the political unrest of the time. In the evenings, he worked as a private tutor. One day, he came across [[Rudolf Arnheim]]’s ''Film as Art'', followed by Vladimir Nilsen's ''The Cinema as a Graphic Art''—books that profoundly influenced his journey into filmmaking.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ghosh |first=Devarsi |title=One Hundred Years of Mrinal Sen |url=https://jacobin.com/2023/06/mrinal-sen-india-filmmaker-politics-communism |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20250111024630/https://jacobin.com/2023/06/mrinal-sen-india-filmmaker-politics-communism |archive-date=January 11, 2025 |access-date=2025-04-04 |website=[[Jacobin (magazine)|Jacobin]] |language=en-US}}</ref><ref name=":0" />

He became involved with the [[Indian People's Theatre Association|Indian People’s Theatre Association]] (IPTA), backed by the Communist Party of India.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Obituaries |first=Telegraph |date=2019-03-11 |title=Mrinal Sen, film director whose work was fuelled by his radical politics – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2019/03/11/mrinal-sen-film-director-whose-work-fuelled-radical-politics/ |access-date=2025-04-04 |work=The Telegraph |language=en-GB |issn=0307-1235}}</ref> He and his friends—[[Ritwik Ghatak]], [[Salil Chowdhury]], [[Tapan Sinha]], and occasionally [[Bijon Bhattacharya|Bijan Bhattacharya]]—spent hours in ''[[Adda (South Asian)|adda]]'', a Bengali tradition of intense, freewheeling discussions on art, politics, and life. Their favorite meeting place was a restaurant near Basusree Cinemahall, where, in 1955, they first watched Satyajit Ray’s ''[[Pather Panchali]]''.<ref name=":0" />

Around this time, Mrinal met Geeta Shome (née Sen), whom he married in 1953. As a token of his affection, the first gift he gave her was ''[[Notes from the Gallows]]'' by [[Julius Fučík (journalist)|Julius Fučík]].<ref name=":0" />

==Influence==
Mrinal Sen directed ''[[Bhuvan Shome]]'' (''Mr. Shome'', 1969) which initiated the "New Wave Cinema Movement" in India.<ref name=newcinema>{{cite book |title= The New Indian Cinema |last= Vasudev|first= Aruna|year= 1986|publisher=Macmillan India |isbn=0-333-90928-3 }}</ref>

===Film craft, Social context and its political influence===
The films that he made next were essentially political, and earned him the reputation as a [[Marxist]] artist.<ref name=thorval>{{cite book |title= Cinemas of India|last=Thorval |first= Yves|year=2000 |publisher=Macmillan India|isbn= 0-333-93410-5|pages= 280–282}}</ref> This was also the time of large-scale political unrest throughout [[India]]. Particularly in and around Calcutta, this period underwent what is now known as the [[Naxalite]] movement. This phase was immediately followed by a series of films where he shifted his focus, and instead of looking for enemies outside, he looked for the enemy within his own [[middle class]] society. This was arguably his most creative phase.

===Depiction of Kolkata===
In many Mrinal Sen movies from ''Punascha'' (1961) to ''Mahaprithivi'' (1992), Kolkata features prominently. He has shown Kolkata as a character, and as an inspiration. He has beautifully woven the people, value system, class difference and the roads of the city into his movies and coming of age for Kolkata, his El-Dorado.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Roy |first=Mousumi |date=2018-12-31 |title=Mrinal Sen the Unpredictable Maverick |url=https://www.thequint.com/entertainment/indian-cinema/mrinal-sen-unpredictable-maverick |access-date=2023-08-13 |website=TheQuint |language=en}}</ref>

==Recognition==

In 1982 he was a member of the jury at the [[32nd Berlin International Film Festival]].<ref name="berlinale 1982">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1982/04_jury_1982/04_Jury_1982.html |title=Berlinale 1982: Juries |access-date=2 September 2010 |work=berlinale.de |archive-date=23 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131023125209/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1982/04_jury_1982/04_Jury_1982.html |url-status=live }}</ref> In 1983 he was a member of the jury at the [[13th Moscow International Film Festival]].<ref name="Moscow1983">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1983 |title=13th Moscow International Film Festival (1983) |access-date=28 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131107141111/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1983 |archive-date=7 November 2013 }}</ref> In 1997 Sen became the member of the jury at the [[20th Moscow International Film Festival]].<ref name="Moscow1997">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1997 |title=20th Moscow International Film Festival (1997) |access-date=22 March 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130322163106/http://moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1997 |archive-date=22 March 2013 }}</ref>
On 24 July 2012, Sen was not invited to the function organised by [[Government of West Bengal]] to felicitate film personalities from the State. As per reports, his political views are believed to be the reason for his omission from the function.<ref>{{cite news| url= http://www.thehindu.com/news/article3679675.ece| title= Omission of Mrinal Sen from West Bengal film awards triggers controversy| date= 25 July 2012| access-date= 25 July 2012| archive-date= 27 July 2012| archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120727041644/http://www.thehindu.com/news/article3679675.ece| url-status= live}}</ref>

==Death==
Sen had age-related ailments for many years. He died on 30 December 2018 at the age of 95 at his home in [[Bhowanipore|Bhawanipore]], Kolkata.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://zeenews.india.com/people/bengali-filmmaker-mrinal-sen-dies-at-95-2166800.html|title=Bengali filmmaker Mrinal Sen dies at 95|date=30 December 2018|access-date=30 December 2018|archive-date=1 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101143352/http://zeenews.india.com/people/bengali-filmmaker-mrinal-sen-dies-at-95-2166800.html|url-status=live}}</ref> The cause was a [[heart attack]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/mrinal-sen-dead-5515743/|title=Mrinal Sen, legendary filmmaker and Phalke awardee, passes away at 95|date=30 December 2018|publisher=Indian Express|access-date=30 December 2018|archive-date=1 January 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190101143406/https://indianexpress.com/article/entertainment/entertainment-others/mrinal-sen-dead-5515743/|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Awards==
===National Film Awards===
[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]]
*1969: ''[[Bhuvan Shome]]''
*1974: ''[[Chorus (1974 film)|Chorus]]''
*1976: ''[[Mrigayaa]]''
*1980: ''[[Akaler Sandhane]]''

[[National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film|Second Best Feature Film]]
*1972: ''[[Calcutta 71]]''
*1980: ''[[Kharij]]''

[[National Film Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]
*1969: ''[[Bhuvan Shome]]''
*1979: ''[[Ek Din Pratidin]]''
*1980: ''[[Akaler Sandhane]]''
*1984: ''[[Khandhar]]''

[[National Film Award for Best Screenplay|Best Screenplay]]
*1974: ''[[Padatik (1973 film)|Padatik]]''
*1983: ''[[Akaler Sandhane]]''
*1984: ''[[Kharij]]''

[[National Film Award – Special Mention (feature film)|Special Mention]]
*1978: ''Parashuram''

===Best Regional Film Awards===
[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali|Best Feature Film in Bengali]]
*1961: ''Punascha''
*1965: ''[[Akash Kusum]]''
*1993: ''[[Antareen]]''

[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Telugu|Best Feature Film in Telugu]]
*1977: ''[[Oka Oori Katha]]''

===[[Filmfare Awards]]===
:{{Awards|[[Filmfare Critics Award for Best Movie|Critics Award for Best Film]]|1976|[[Mrigayaa]]}} {{Awards|[[Filmfare Best Screenplay Award|Best Screenplay]]|1984|[[Khandhar]]}} {{Awards|Best Director - Bengali|1982|[[Akaler Shandhaney]]}} {{Awards|Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award|2017|[[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali Cinema]]}}

===International awards===
:[[4th International Film Festival of India]] - Jury Prize - [[Bhuvan Shome]] - 1969<ref>{{cite web|url=https://pickle.co.in/markets/iffi-a-trip-down-the-memory-lane/|title=4th IFFI|date=23 November 2019 |publisher=|access-date=16 September 2022|archive-date=20 September 2022|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220920163530/https://pickle.co.in/markets/iffi-a-trip-down-the-memory-lane/|url-status=live}}</ref>
:{{Awards|[[Moscow International Film Festival]] - Silver Prize|1975|[[Chorus (1974 film)|Chorus]]<ref name="Moscow1975">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1975 |title=9th Moscow International Film Festival (1975) |access-date=5 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116194905/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1975 |archive-date=16 January 2013 }}</ref>|1979|[[Parasuram (1979 film)|Parashuram]]<ref name="Moscow1979">{{cite web |url=http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |title=11th Moscow International Film Festival (1979) |access-date=19 January 2013 |work=MIFF |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130116210417/http://www.moscowfilmfestival.ru/miff34/eng/archives/?year=1979 |archive-date=16 January 2013 }}</ref>}}

:{{Awards|[[Karlovy Vary International Film Festival]] - Special Jury Prize|1977|[[Oka Oori Katha]]}}

:'''[[Berlin International Film Festival]]''' <br/> {{Awards|Interfilm Award|1979|Parashuram|||1981|[[Akaler Sandhane]]}} {{Awards|[[Jury Grand Prix|Grand Jury Prize]]<ref name="berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1981/03_preistr_ger_1981/03_Preistraeger_1981.html |title=Berlinale 1981: Prize Winners |access-date=22 August 2010 |work=berlinale.de |archive-date=12 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131012044531/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1981/03_preistr_ger_1981/03_Preistraeger_1981.html |url-status=live }}</ref>|[[31st Berlin International Film Festival|1981]]|[[Akaler Sandhane]]}}

:{{Awards|[[Cannes Film Festival]] - [[Jury Prize (Cannes Film Festival)|Jury Prize]]|1983|[[Kharij]]}}

:{{Awards|[[Valladolid International Film Festival]] - [[Seminci|Golden Spike]]|1983|[[Kharij]]}}

:{{Awards|[[Chicago International Film Festival]] - Gold Hugo|1984|[[Khandhar]]}}

:{{Awards|[[Montreal World Film Festival]] - Special Prize of the Jury|1984|[[Khandhar]]}}

:{{Awards|[[Venice Film Festival]] - OCIC Award - Honorable Mention|1989|[[Ek Din Achanak]]}}

:{{Awards|[[Cairo International Film Festival]] - Silver Pyramid for Best Director|2002|Aamar Bhuban}}

==State and institutional honors==
*In 1979, he was awarded the Nehru Soviet Land Award by the [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics]] for his contribution to world cinema.
*In 1981, the [[Government of India]] awarded Sen with the [[Padma Bhushan]].<ref name="Padma Awards">{{cite web | url=http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | title=Padma Awards | publisher=Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India | date=2015 | access-date=21 July 2015 | archive-date=15 October 2015 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151015193758/http://mha.nic.in/sites/upload_files/mha/files/LST-PDAWD-2013.pdf | url-status=dead }}</ref>
*In 1985, President [[François Mitterrand]], the [[President of France]], awarded him the Commandeur de [[Ordre des Arts et des Lettres]] (Commander of the Order of Arts and Letters)<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&q=%22Ordre%20des%20Arts%20et%20des%20Lettres%22%20Mrinal&pg=PA1518 |title=The International Who's Who 2004 |isbn=9781857432176 |access-date=17 June 2022 |archive-date=17 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220617033025/https://books.google.com/books?id=sR4Ch1dMe8IC&pg=PA1518&q=%22Ordre%20des%20Arts%20et%20des%20Lettres%22%20Mrinal |url-status=live |last1=Publications |first1=Europa |date=27 October 2023 |publisher=Psychology Press }}</ref>
*In 1993, he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by the [[University of Burdwan]].
*In 1996, he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by [[Jadavpur University]].
*In 1999, he was awarded an honorary D.Litt. by [[Rabindra Bharati University]].<ref name=Stellar>{{Cite web |url=http://www.stellarpublishers.com/authors.html |title=Stellar Publishers |access-date=26 October 2013 |archive-date=29 October 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029195305/http://www.stellarpublishers.com/authors.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
*Between 1998 and 2003, he was made an Honorary Member of the [[Indian Parliament]] in the [[Rajya Sabha]].
*In 2000, President [[Vladimir Putin]] of the [[Russian Federation]] honored him with the [[Order of Friendship]].
*In 2005, the [[Dadasaheb Phalke Award]], the highest honor given to an Indian filmmaker, was awarded to him by the [[Government of India]] for the year [[51st National Film Awards|2003]].<ref name="51stawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/51st_nff_2004.pdf|title=51st National Film Awards|publisher=[[Directorate of Film Festivals]]|access-date=15 March 2012|archive-date=3 March 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160303234942/http://dff.nic.in/2011/51st_nff_2004.pdf|url-status=live}}</ref>
*In 2009, he was awarded an honorary D. Litt., by the [[University of Calcutta]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Annual Convocation|url=http://www.caluniv.ac.in/convocation-2012/hony_degrees.htm|publisher=[[University of Calcutta]]|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120528004638/http://caluniv.ac.in/convocation-2012/hony_degrees.htm|archive-date=28 May 2012}}</ref>
*In 2017, he was inducted as a member of the [[Academy Award|Oscar]] Academy<ref>{{cite web|title=Academy invites record 774 new members; 39 percent female, 30 percent people color|publisher=Hollywood Reporter|url=http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/academy-invites-record-774-new-members-39-percent-female-30-percent-people-color-1017318|date=29 June 2017|access-date=29 June 2017|archive-date=29 June 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170629145440/http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/academy-invites-record-774-new-members-39-percent-female-30-percent-people-color-1017318|url-status=live}}</ref>

==Filmography==
*''[[Raat Bhore]]'' (''The Dawn'') (1955)
*''[[Neel Akasher Neechey]]'' (''Under the Blue Sky'') (1959)
*''[[Baishe Shravana]]'' (''Wedding Day'') (1960)
*''Punascha'' (''Over Again'') (1961)
*''Abasheshe'' (''And at Last'') (1963)
*''[[Protinidhi (film)|Pratinidhi]]'' (''The Representative'') (1964)
*''[[Akash Kusum]]'' (''Up in the Clouds'') (1965)
*''[[Matira Manisha]]'' (''Man of the Soil'') (''[[Cinema of Odisha|Odia film]]'') (1966)
*''[[Bhuvan Shome]]'' (''Mr. Bhuvan Shome'') (1969)
*''[[Ichhapuran]]'' (1970)
*''[[Interview (1971 film)|Interview]]'' (1971)
*''[[Ek Adhuri Kahani]]'' (''An Unfinished Story'') (1971)
*''[[Calcutta 71]]'' (1972)
*''[[Padatik (1973 film)|Padatik]]'' (''The Guerilla Fighter'') (1973)
*''[[Chorus (1974 film)|Chorus]]'' (1974)
*''[[Mrigayaa|Mrigaya]]'' (''The Royal Hunt'') (1976)
*''[[Oka Oori Katha]]'' (''The Outsiders'') (1977)
*''[[Parashuram (1979 film)|Parashuram]]'' (''The Man with the Axe'') (1978)
*''[[Ek Din Pratidin]]'' (''And Quiet Rolls the Dawn'') (1979)
*''[[Akaler Shandhaney]]'' (''In Search of Famine'') (1980)
*''Chalchitra'' (''The Kaleidoscope'') (1981)
*''[[Kharij]]'' (''The Case Is Closed'') (1982)
*''[[Khandhar]]'' (''The Ruins'') (1983)
*''[[Genesis (1986 film)|Genesis]]'' (1986)
*''[[Kabhi Door Kabhi Paas]]'' (1986–87) (12 short films made for television broadcast)
*''[[Ek Din Achanak]]'' (''Suddenly, One Day'') (1989)
*''[[Mahaprithibi]]'' (''World Within, World Without'') (1991)
*''[[Antareen]]'' (''The Confined'') (1993)
*''[[Amar Bhuvan]]'' (''This, My Land'') (2002)

==See also==
* [[Nabyendu Chatterjee]]
* [[Sekhar Das]]
* [[Anjan Dutt]]
* [[Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury]]
* [[Nandita Das]]

== References ==
===Notes===
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==External links==
* {{Internet Archive author}} 
* {{IMDb name|0784019}}
* {{official website|http://mrinalsen.org/|Mrinal Sen – official website}}
* [https://www.britannica.com/biography/Mrinal-Sen Mrinal Sen] at the ''[[Encyclopædia Britannica]]''

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[[Category:Directors who won the Best Feature Film National Film Award]]
[[Category:People from the Bengal Presidency]]