IFFK to display screen 5 Mrinal Sen motion pictures on his centenary
The Worldwide Movie Competition of Kerala (IFFK) will commemorate the centenary of filmmaker Mrinal Sen by screening 5 of his movies.
The celebrated filmmaker’s Bhuvan Shome, Calcutta 71, Akaler Sandhane, Padatik, and Ek Din Pratidin can be screened on the fete.
Bhuvan Shome (1969), that obtained three Nationwide Awards, follows a stern Bengali bureaucrat who lives a monotonous lifetime of solitude till he decides to journey. The movie is a journey of self-realisation and a social commentary on the nice rural-urban divide.
Linking collectively 4 tales, Calcutta 71 (1972) depicts folks struggling for survival in a gritty meditation on poverty, pure catastrophe, and political strife within the nation.
Akaler Sandhane (1980), which received 4 Nationwide Awards and the Silver Bear on the thirty first Berlin Worldwide Movie Competition, follows a movie crew that ventures into rural Bengal to shoot a film on the Bengal famine of 1943. The story presents a stark visible of the famine-struck area that continues to wrestle with poverty a long time later.
Padatik (1973)[The Guerrilla Fighter] follows a younger revolutionary who escapes police custody and seeks refuge in a divorcee’s house. In solitary confinement, he indulges in introspection and begins questioning the ideological path he’s on.
Hailed as Mrinal Sen’s most eloquent commentary on middle-class dilemmas within the nation, Ek Din Pratidin (1979) [And Quiet Rolls the Dawn] secured three Nationwide Awards.
The movie describes the occasions of a day and evening within the life a lower-middle-class working girl, the only real breadwinner of the household, who doesn’t return dwelling after work.
Between the deepening disaster arising out of financial and ethical constraints in society, the movie speaks of hope and the energy hidden behind despair.
