Gita Sen

Gita Sen

1930-10-25
86 (2017-01-17)

Indian actress Gita Sen (25 October 1930-17 January 2017) was the wife of celebrated filmmaker Mrinal Sen.

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Indian actress Gita Sen (25 October 1930-17 January 2017) was the wife of celebrated filmmaker Mrinal Sen.

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Calcutta 71 1972 (8.8)

The spirit of a condemned 20-year-old student wanders through time, linking together four stories of people struggling for survival in this gritty meditation on poverty, natural disaster and political strife in India. A middle-class family's home is no match for the monsoons, while another clan's morality is compromised when famine strikes. Young boys smuggle rice, and politicians pity the poor while living in the lap of luxury.
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And Quiet Rolls the Dawn 1979 (6.8)

The bread-winning daughter in a middle-class family fails to return from work one evening. The saga begins with worries at home, followed by midnight searches and finally a deepening crisis arising out of economic and moral constraints prevalent in the society. Yet the film speaks of hope and of strength hidden behind despair.
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Kaleidoscope 1981 (5.2)

Burning with a desire to be a journalist, a young man gets his chance when a publisher -- the father of a friend -- suggests that he write a story on the daily life of the people in his house (several families worth of people). The material turns out to be too incohesive and abundant to work into a pointed, thematic article, and just when he is about to give up, his younger brother asks him a simple question: "How many coal burners are there in Calcutta?" This triggers an idea for a story about Calcutta's pollution -- and the aspiring journalist dreams of myriads of burner-toting citizens invading the publisher's home demanding redress. Maybe he is finally on the way to a story that matters.