Mrinal Sen is the pride of Bengal

Born in Faridpur, Bangladesh. Father was a big advocate, close to Bipinchandra Pal His mother was a favorite of Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose who fought for the execution of the revolutionaries and sang the opening song at the anti-British public meetings. Growing up, he was politically aware from a young age. This political awareness has emerged in each of his films. From the mid-sixties to the end of the seventies, the turbulent Kolkata or its social and political unrest kept coming up in his movies 'Akashkusum', 'Interview', 'Kolkata 71'. In black and white films like 'Padatik', 'Chorus', he has shown the story of the dreams or broken dreams of Bengali middle-class life, from the Naxalite movement to the state of emergency, the history of the strength and weakness of the left-wing movement has also emerged in his films, poverty and exploitation have emerged, police terror has emerged. He would often say, "I have seen the police since I was a child," creating a lack of technical flair to show the lack of smoothness in life. His "Bhuvan Som" film, which is impossible without an impossible concept of the medium, completely turned the world upside down.

He used to smoke heavily and take a cigarette in his mouth and ask the people in front of him to take a deslai box and put it in his pocket.

Apart from Bengali, he made films in different languages like 'Matir Manish' in Oriya, 'Oka Uri Katha' in Telugu or 'Bhuban Som', 'Ek Adhuri Kahani', 'Mrigaya', 'Khandahar', 'Genesis', 'Ekdin Achanak' in Hindi. Uniquely used to say, "Many people ask me that why do you make pictures in so many different languages?" I say, I make pictures about poverty. I would have no problem going to Africa and making films in Swahili, if I could capture the physical peculiarities, which are always on the surface.'' Satyajit Roy was impressed by his 'Oka Uri Katha' and told Soumitra Chatterjee, "You know, I saw 'Oka Uri Katha'." I liked it very much. Satyajit Ray, whose film is held in such high esteem, what more can be said about him!