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Always Being Born: A Memoir

Always Being Born: A Memoir

Sen, Mrinal

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Series: India List

ArtistsBiographies General

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ISBN10: 1803091762
ISBN13: 9781803091761
Publisher: Sea Boating
Published: Oct 4 2023
Pages: 320
Weight: 0.60
Height: 0.60 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
An outspoken memoir by a much-celebrated Indian filmmaker.

I am a filmmaker by accident and an author by compulsion, claims Mrinal Sen, who became part of the great triumvirate of Bengali cinema--along with Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak--in the 1950s and '60s when he founded the rebellious Indian New Wave. Throughout his career, he kept that fire of protest burning, his acute political awareness and left-wing orientation spurring his creativity. Over decades, the themes that pervaded his cinema mirrored the spectrum of human suffering and experience, and in turn crystallized the anger of a restive mind against social injustice, economic deprivation, and communal divide. In this memoir, a celebrated ambassador of Indian cinema on the global stage, for whom cinema became a lexicon that gave voice to the times, reflects on encounters with the legends of the world of images as well as his inspirations and obsessions--not least among them, the city of Calcutta. Always Being Born is a fascinating memoir of a great artist and a buoyant social commentator who continued to confront, fight, and survive on the very challenges that propelled him to look beyond and dream.

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