Mrinal Sen Dies: Acclaimed Director Won India’s Top Film Honor, Was 95

Mrinal Sen, the filmmaker who won India’s highest film honor, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, has died. He was 95 and passed from natural causes at his home in Kolkata. Sen is known for his contributions to Bengali parallel cinema, a movement originating in West Bengal that took a serious approach to filmmaking, rejecting  mainstream Indian commercial cinema and its dance-and-song routines. The movement was known for serious content, realism and the sociopolitical climate of…

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