Montage: Life, Politics, Cinema Seagull Books

Montage: Life, Politics, Cinema Seagull BooksOne of the greatest ambassadors of Indian cinema on the global stage, Mrinal Sen has always seen his life and work as part of the social and political fabric of his time. Considered the enfant terrible of Indian cinema when he broke on the scene in the 1960s and 70s, Sen today is known for his films that capture moments of truth in the ordinary lives of ordinary people. His masterfully subtle and nuanced portraits of urban class tension, leftist

Suicide Note

German artist Max Neumann’s haunting images that accompany the poems work as complex visual metaphors that further underline the beauty and the gravity of the poems

Asiatic Society of Mumbai

the sacred and the profane

Fragments of a scene unfold in a series of tableaux

he dies and we discover how alive he was

National Film Archives of India

Incidents will delight fans of Barthes’s other works

Blending myth and folklore with an acute insight into the human psyche and politics

Chopra creates characters that are not fixed in time or space

His films have been shown at Tate Modern

From 1950 to his retirement from teaching in 1989