13 Facts About Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen served as the President of FTII from 1984 to 1986.

Mrinal Sen received various national and international honors including eighteen Indian National Film Awards.

Mrinal Sen was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, the highest award for filmmakers in India.

Mrinal Sen was one of the few Indian filmmakers to have won awards at the big three film festivals viz.

Mrinal Sen's father, Dineshchandra Sen, was a lawyer who supported Indian freedom fighters.

Mrinal Sen became involved with the Indian People's Theatre Association, backed by the Communist Party of India.

Around this time, Mrinal met Geeta Shome, whom he married in 1953.

Mrinal Sen directed Bhuvan Shome which initiated the "New Wave Cinema Movement" in India.

Mrinal Sen has shown Kolkata as a character, and as an inspiration.

Mrinal Sen has beautifully woven the people, value system, class difference and the roads of the city into his movies and coming of age for Kolkata, his El-Dorado.

In 1997 Mrinal Sen became the member of the jury at the 20th Moscow International Film Festival.

On 24 July 2012, Mrinal Sen was not invited to the function organised by Government of West Bengal to felicitate film personalities from the State.

Mrinal Sen died on 30 December 2018 at the age of 95 at his home in Bhawanipore, Kolkata.