World Within World Without - Mrinal Sen Retrospective
In Search of Famine / Akaler Sandhane
India
Directors: Mrinal Sen
Director's bio
Mrinal Sen, veteran Indian film director and screenwriter, made significant contributions to Bengali, Hindi, and Telugu cinema. A leading figure in the New Wave cinema of eastern India, he received numerous awards, including the Padma Bhushan, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Order of Friendship. Sen also won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and achieved the rare distinction of winning awards at the Cannes, Venice, and Berlinale film festivals.
Mrinal Sen, veteran Indian film director and screenwriter, made significant contributions to Bengali, Hindi, and Telugu cinema. A leading figure in the New Wave cinema of eastern India, he received numerous awards, including the Padma Bhushan, Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and the Order of Friendship. Sen also won the Dadasaheb Phalke Award and achieved the rare distinction of winning awards at the Cannes, Venice, and Berlinale film festivals.
Synopsis
7 September, 1980. A film crew comes to a village to make a film about a famine, which killed five million Bengalees in 1943. It was a man made famine, a side- product of the war, and the film crew will create the tragedy of those millions who died of starvation. The film documents the convivial life among the film crew and the hazards, problems and tension of film making on location. The actors live a double life, and the villagers, both simple and not-so-simple folk watch their work with wonder and suspicion. But as the film progresses, the recreated past begins to confront the present. The uneasy coexistence of 1943 and 1980 reveals bizarre connection, involving a village woman whose visions add a further dimension of time—that of future. A disturbing situation, indeed, for the “famine-seekers”!Details of Cast
Dhritiman Chatterjee, Smita Patil, Gita Sen, Rajen Tarafdar, Sreela Mazumder, Radhamohan Bhattacharya, Jayanta Chowdhury, Dipankar De, Jochon DastidarDetails of Crew
Camera: K.K. Mahajan Music: Salil ChowdhuryProducer Details
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