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New acclaim for Mrinal Sen

The Dada Saheb Phalke award to be conferred on him

Pallab Bhattacharya, NewDeihi
Acclaimed director Mrinal Sen will receive the Indian Government's highest honour in film-makingthe Dada Saheb Phalke award-in recognition of his "outstanding contribution" to Indian cinema.
Sen, 82, will be conferred the award by President A P J Abdul Kalani at the annual national film awards functioninNewDelhionFebruary2.
The film-maker, who made his debut feature film Raat Bhore, shot into national and international fame with his first Hindi film Bhuvan Shome with late Utpal Dutt in a lead role. The film had earned a top national award in the late 1960s.
Sen made most ofhis feature films in Bangla and a few in other languages: Hindi, Telugu and Oriya. His last feature film Aamar Bhuvan, released a few years ago, received high cri ti cal acclaim.
His Kharij, starring Mamata Shankar and Anjan Datta, walked away with the jury prize in 1983 in the Cannes, Venice, Berlin and Karlovy Vary International Film Festivals. The film is the story about the guilt feelingin a middle class Bangalee family in Kolkata when their domestic help dies of suffocation while sleepinginthekitchenof the apartment.
Bom on May 14, 1923 in Faridpur, Sen made a name for himself with Neel Akashcr Nichcy stalling Kali Banerjee in lead role and went on to make an array of feature films in the decades to follow.
Known for his pronounced Left ideology, Sen's
political views come out sharply, somewhat loudly too, in his films like Padatik, Interview and Kolkata Ekaltor His first and only Telugu film Oka Uri Katha,
starring Mamata Shankar in a lead role, is a poignant human document of fanners' exploitation by landlords in a village in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.
Among other feature films bySen.whohasalso made a number of documentaries, are Genesis, Mahapritihivi, Chaalchitra, Ek Din Protidin, Akaler Sandhaney, Parasuram, Khandahar (in Hindi), Ek Din Achanak (in Hindi) and Antarecn starringDimpleKapadia and Anjan Datta.
'flic 1980s marked a distinct turnaround in Sen's work as his films concentrated more on the middle class with its positive sides, follies and contradictions and how the prevailing sociopolitical milieu impacts on human relationships in this class. All these traits of Sen's films are most evocatively and artistically expressed in Ekdin Protidin (And Quiet Flows the Day), starring Mamata Shankar, Sreela Majumdar and the director's wife Geeta Sen, considered one of the best made by the director.
Sen has always been stirred by the political developments in India and abroad and he has neverhesitated to reflect this in his work be it the fall of Communism in East Europe (in Mahaprithivi), Naxalite movement in Kolkata EkanorandGujaratriots inAamarBhuvan.
A recipient of Padma Bhushan, a civilian award given by Indian government, Sen was a nominated member of Rajya Sabha, upper house oflndianParliament, from 1998 to 2003.