Always Being Born – A Memoir

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-07-04
Mått:6 x 9 x 21 mm
Vikt:518 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:320
Förlag:Seagull Books London Ltd
ISBN:9781803091761

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Mrinal Sen (1923–2018) directed more than thirty feature films, documentaries, and telefilms. He was instrumental in launching the New Cinema movement in India with his critically acclaimed Bhuvan Shome.

Innehållsförteckning

Preface Acknowledgements Editor’s Note1.My City: Mercilessly Maligned, Dangerously Loved 2.Given the Bene?t of the Doubt, I Walked into the Brave New World — Long Way, Dif?cult Way3.Hiroshima and the Cannibal Time4.Long Years Ago, We Made a Tryst with Destiny, and Now5.We Make Things Spectacular, but Not by Their Exceptional Qualities6.I Live in the Instant Present. I Invest the Past with Contemporary Sensibilities7.I am Twenty. For One Thousand Years, I Remain Twenty8.Deadly Discipline, When Trains Ran on Perfect Time9.Wherever I Go, Things Keep on Happening10.I Pull Myself by the Hair, and Force Myself to Look at the Mirror11.Nineteen-eighties! A Decade, Every Inch Worth My While12.Take Chances! I Wish You All a Very Tough Time13.An Old Letter, and a Few Things, Here and There14.The ‘Delicious Liar’ Continues ‘To Tell The Tale’, Left Untold15.Nineteen Eighty-three! Going Places, Meeting the World16.Nineteen Eighty-four: The Year of ‘The Ruins’, and Back and Forth17.I Never Say I’ll Retire, for I am Always Being BornEpilogue Annexure Filmography