The death of filmmaker Mrinal Sen on the penultimate day of the year arrived as the last bit of sad news for many cinephiles in India. The filmmaker was the last of the legendary troika of Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak who reshaped the direction of Indian cinema and its perception among foreign viewers. Sen was …
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Mrinal Sen, the ‘Maverick Maestro’ of Indian cinema, died at his home in Bhawanipore this morning. The pioneering filmmaker was 95. Sen had been suffering from age-related illnesses for a long time. He died of a heart attack at about 10:30am. As Sen’s son Kunal lives in Chicago, it was his caretaker who was with the …
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The last few hours of 2018 have cast a pall of gloom on Bengal’s cinephiles as Mrinal Sen, the last of the troika of great filmmakers with Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, passed away today, aged 95, of cardiac respiratory failure at his home in Bhawanipore. One of the more revered Indian filmmakers across the globe and a …
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