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An angry young man on trial in 1971,a rainstorm in a slum in 1933,a lower-middle-class family during the 1943 famine,teenage smugglers in 1953 and a middle-class group in a posh hotel in 1971.

	
Calcutta.71.1971.1080p.AMZN.WEB-DL.DDP2.0.H.264-NPMS.mkv

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Language(s):Bengali
Subtitles:English (SDH)

The post Mrinal Sen – Calcutta 71 (1972) (HD) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

The servant boy, a minor, engaged in a middle class family dies mysteriously locked in a kitchen.

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Language:Bengali
Subtitles:English

The post Mrinal Sen – Kharij AKA The Case Is Closed (1982) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

A farmer (Naseeruddin Shah) and a weaver (Om Puri) exchange their products for goods provided by a regular passing trader (M.K. Raina). A woman (Shabana Azmi) arrives, forcing the two men’s desires but also urging them to obtain more recompense from the trader. After a visit to a village fair , the two men become more acquisitive and jealousies break out over the now pregnant woman who simply ups and leaves .As the two men fight each other, the trader’s men attack and enslave the workers again.

Here is a brief review from the New York Times:
”Genesis” is not a biblical extravaganza. The Indian director Mrinal Sen’s 1986 movie, now at the Public Theater, is a simply conceived, artfully rendered parable of love and jealousy, freedom and slavery. The tale is rudimentary, its themes a touch obvious, yet the telling, done with grave humanity, carries meanings of its own.

Rest easy. Despite the title, ”Genesis” is not a biblical extravaganza. The Indian director Mrinal Sen’s 1986 movie, now at the Public Theater, is a simply conceived, artfully rendered parable of love and jealousy, freedom and slavery. The tale is rudimentary, its themes a touch obvious, yet the telling, done with grave humanity, carries meanings of its own.

A weaver and a farmer, in flight from exploitation, settle near a desert, where they live like brothers. The weaver supports the bare and smoky household by exchanges with an itinerant trader, the movie’s one ambiguous figure. The farmer tends the land. Life goes so well that the two can delude themselves that ”we are slaves to no one, we are our own masters.”

Into their sparse Eden comes a teen-aged woman with a lantern, a needless symbol for so luminous an actress as Shabana Azmi. She proves a hard worker who scrubs the sandy floor and also scrubs away some of the men’s crudeness. She softens their lives and joins in their play.

They compete in their efforts to please her, and you will not be surprised to learn that this means trouble. As the worldly trader warns, ”There are two of them and one of you.” She tries to give fair shares -”I accepted you both because you needed me,” she tells them in pure affection – but it doesn’t do. Here, as in the Old Testament Genesis, the brothers are riven.

Although Miss Azmi has an angel-with-a-dirty-face quality, Mr. Sen, who wrote the screenplay, keeps his characters down to earth. They stand for human beings through the ages, unable to master either their own emotions or life’s circumstances. Now and then there is a frightening roar overhead, the sound of the world, that sends them cowering.

Mr. Sen’s evident intention to connect man’s inner and outer forms of slavery does not click. Even if this two-man-one-woman community could have continued amiably, it would still have been destroyed by the bulldozers brought in by the trader. The director’s final reliance on destruction ex machina stems from his politics rather than from his characters’ passions. Yet with the help of Carlo Varini’s camera and Ravi Shankar’s music, ”Genesis” brings home the sparseness, beauty and perils of existence at a basic level.

Although Mrinal Sen has made about 25 movies in India, for American audiences ”Genesis” marks a notable beginning.

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Language(s):Hindi
Subtitles:English

The post Mrinal Sen – Genesis (1986) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Does India have a national cinema? Does it, indeed, require one? Mrinal Sen is not quite sure. Yet, his latest celluloid essay, And the Show Goes On, a British Film Institute-funded tribute to the world’s largest movie industry in cinema’s centenary year, is quite polemically categorical about what India’s filmic output should be.

But can it ever be what it ideally ought to be? Again, Sen, as is his wont, is not forth coming with a clear answer. His prescription, however, is rather unambiguous: cinema should confront social realities, no matter how harsh; it cannot continue being as cavalierly escapist as it is in India and yet expect to be taken seriously on the global stage. As film director and critic Chidananda Dasgupta says on camera: “India lives too much by myth and too little by fact”. That, for Sen, is where the problem begins. And ends.

And the Show Goes On, premiered at the recent Venice Film Festival, is a constantly provocative, always lively, if a bit elliptical, evaluation of the first 100 years of Indian cinema. It touches upon practically everything that is of import from Raja Harishchandra to Hum Aapke Hain Koun: Mughal-e-Azam, Devaki Bose, V. Shantaram, Raj Kapoor, Bimal Roy, Guru Dutt, Satyajit Ray and the rest of the new wave flag bearers, besides much else. But the assessment of each film that finds a mention in this hour-long documentary is coloured unmistakably by Sen’s personal perceptions. And for that alone, And the Show Goes On is a film worth preserving.

But there’s much else here. For instance, there’s Mrinal Sen himself grilling Mani Ratnam, allowing him graciously to have his say about his brand of seemingly socially-conscious cinema—”I am not ready yet to see absolute reality”—and then cutting away to a sequence from Govind Nihalani’s well-received Tamas which has Om Puri fleeing in horror from a sight he cannot obviously stomach—the carcass of a pig in front of a place of worship. Are we, asks the film as it fades out, condemned to flee from reality like the character in Tamas? The answer has eluded us for eight decades, yet the show must go on. As must the search for the right idiom. The right balance between dream and reality.

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Language(s):English and Hindi (in some film clips)
Subtitles:English hard subs for Hindi film clips

The post Mrinal Sen – And the Show Goes On – Indian Chapter [BFI Century of Cinema: India] (1995) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis-
Nothing is common between the two men to ever meet and understand each other; neither the origin of the British administration of imperial time nor the primitive culture of the tribal from the jungle in central India. Nothing is common but the sharing of a common passion: hunting.

To both of them a big game is a game, a prey is a prey; this is probably why Ghinua, the young hunter and a loving husband, reacts like a terrible “hunter” when the usurer-landlord steals his wife. He slays him as the wild pigs have to be slain when they destroy harvest, or a tiger when he lifts a child. An avenged man, he brings his trophy, the head of the most mischievous game in his area, to the only man who will understand him, the English sahib, the other hunter.

Awards
1977 Filmfare Award Best Film (Mrinal Sen)
1977 Moscow International Film Festival Nominated for Golden Prize : Best Film (Mrinal Sen)
1977 National Film Award, India Golden Lotus Award Best Film (Mrinal Sen)
1977 National Film Award, India Silver Lotus Award Best Actor Mithun
chakrabarty

645MB | 1h 43m | 640×480 | mkv

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Language:Hindi
Subtitles:English (muxed)

The post Mrinal Sen – Mrigayaa (1977) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:
Ranjit is a young man who has been assured a lucrative job in an Indo-British firm by a family friend. All he has to do is turn up for the interview dressed in a western-style suit. As luck would have it, all city laundries are on strike that morning, and his only suit is dirty. The film is a frantic search for a new suit to be borrowed from any of his friends, to make it in time for the interview.

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Language:Bengali
Subtitles:English

The post Mrinal Sen – Interview (1970) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
A movie about making a movie. A young, idealistic director arrives in a village to make a picture set during the Great Bengal Famine. It’s a film that he hopes will reveal the problems and privations still current in rural India.

Awards:
National Award 1981 – Golden Lotus (Best Film)
Berlin Film Festival 1981 – Silver Bear.

2.16GB | 2h 4m | 768×576 | mkv

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Language(s):Bengali
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Mrinal Sen – Akaler Sandhane AKA In Search of Famine (1980) first appeared on Cinema of the World.