The Cinema of Mrinal Sen: A Quest for the Unresolved

173 Pages

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Young at heart, rebel in the mind. That is Mrinal Sen for you. Outrageous, angry, unorthodox but always honest in his work. His films didn’t provide conclusions, rather they probed the viewer to engage in a dialogue.

Silhouette film magazine’s tribute on the master’s centenary captured this timeless essence of his cinema.

February 2024
Publisher: Blue Pencil
978-81-943921-6-3

Category: Arts & Cinema, Bestsellers, Publications, Non-Fiction
Tags: Bengali film director, books on cinema, film criticism, film history, Hindi film directors biographies, Mrinal Sen

About the Author

Amitava Nag

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Author | Poet | Film Critic | Editor-in-Chief of Silhouette Magazine

Amitava Nag is an independent film critic based in Kolkata and editor of Silhouette.His most recent books on cinema are 75 Years 75 Films: India’s Cinematic Journey and The Cinema of Mrinal Sen: A Quest for the Unresolved (co-edited). His other books on cinema include Ghunchu Kirtan; Murmurs: Silent Steals with Soumitra Chatterjee; The Cinema of Tapan Sinha: An Introduction; Soumitra Chatterjee: A Life in Cinema and Beyond. His earlier writings include the acclaimed books Satyajit Ray’s Heroes and Heroines; 16 Frames; Smriti Satta o Cinema and Beyond Apu: 20 Favourite Film Roles of Soumitra Chatterjee.Amitava also writes poetry and short fiction in Bengali and English – observing life in a platter. His poetry collection Forever Meera and translation anthology of Soumitra Chatterjee’s English poems titled Walking Through the Mist were published in 2020. He has penned two short story collections in English and Bengali and a couple of poetry anthologies in Bengali as well. Amitava can be reached at amitavanag.net.

Antara Nanda Mondal

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Editor | Author

The Founder-Editor of Blue Pencil, a New Delhi-based publishing house, Antara wears many hats. A former business journalist, Antara writes extensively on the changing trends of music in cinema. She is Editor in Chief, ‘Learning and Creativity’ and Consulting Editor, ‘Silhouette’. Antara is Creative Director in the digital solutions company Wisitech.

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Details

Genre : Non-Fiction/Cinema
Binding : Paperback (5.5″ x 8.5″)
Pages : 173 pages
Published : February 2024
ISBN: 978-81-943921-6-3

Edited by: Amitava Nag & Antara Nanda Mondal

Young at heart, rebel in the mind. That is Mrinal Sen for you. Outrageous, angry, unorthodox but always honest in his work.

His films didn’t provide conclusions, rather they probed the viewer to engage in a dialogue.

Silhouette film magazine’s tribute on the master’s centenary captured this timeless essence of his cinema.

Neither anecdotal nor heavy with academic jargons, these diverse twenty critical essays are an absolute starting point in any serious discussion on the cinema of Mrinal Sen.

The authors of The Cinema of Mrinal Sen: A Quest for the Unresolved are:

1. A K Nanda
2. Abirbhab Maitra
3. Amitava Nag
4. Antara Nanda Mondal
5. Anuradha Warrier
6. Girish Kasaravalli
7. Italo Spinelli
8. John W Hood
9. Partha Pratim Ghosh
10. Piu Mahapatra
11. Ratnottama Sengupta
12. Sayantan Mukherjee
13. Shiladitya Sarkar
14. Shoma A Chatterji
15. Someswar Bhowmik
16. Subha Das Mollick
17. Vidyarthy Chatterjee

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