Happy 90th, Indian director Mrinal Sen! ("The Case is Closed," 1982)

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The last movie he directed was in 2002.

http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0784019/
"Sen's films have won numerous international awards. The Case Is Closed (1982), a scathing look at the hypocritical reaction of a bourgeois Calcutta family to the death of a servant boy, took home the Jury Prize from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival."

http://mrinalsen.org/
"Mrinal Sen was born on May 14, 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mrinal_Sen
"Mrinal Sen (also spelled Mrinal Shen) is a renowned Bengali Indian filmmaker based in Kolkata, India. Along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, he is often considered to be one of the greatest ambassadors of Indian parallel cinema on the global stage.[1] Like the works of Ray and Ghatak, his cinema is known for its artistic depiction of social reality. Although the three directors shared a healthy rivalry, they were ardent admirers of each other's work, and in so doing, they charted the independent trajectory of parallel cinema, as a counterpoint to the mainstream fare of Hindi cinema in India."

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en#hl=en&site=webhp&source=hp&q=%22mrinal+sen%22+90&oq=%22mrinal+sen%22+90&gs_l=hp.3..0i22i30l2.962.2105.0.2416.4.4.0.0.0.0.252.300.2j0j1.3.0...0.0...1c.1.12.hp.dFNYe7yhlYk&bav=on.2,or.&bvm=bv.46471029,d.bmk&fp=5b656dae7581d009&biw=976&bih=739
(about his birthday)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&gl=us&tbm=nws&q=%22mrinal+sen%22&oq=%22mrinal+sen%22&gs_l=serp.3...19806.20550.0.20757.2.2.0.0.0.0.356.356.3-1.1.0...0.0...1c.1.12.serp.J-4if0JMnEw
(various recent articles about him)


Lenona.