Subrata Sen
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Born | Kolkata, West Bengal, India | 29 May 1963
Occupation(s) | Film director, film producer, screenwriter |
Website | www |
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Banner: FILMWALLAH, Subrata Sen Communications |
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Biography
Early life
Subrata Sen was born in Kolkata in 1963. He went to
Films
His follow-up film, 2002's ...And They Dared to Dream known as
Sen's third movie Vacation Blues, known as Nil Nirjane in Bengali was made in 2003 and was the first digital movie to be made in India. The movie became a cult among the young population in Bengal, despite attracting flak from orthodox critics because of a liplock scene between two young females. The film won the Best Experimental Film award at the Down Under Film Festival, Australia.[4]
Sen based his fourth and fifth movies on Bengali literature. His fourth movie Hotath Neerar Jonnyo (Suddenly for Nira) was made in 2005, based on a short story by Sunil Gangopadhyay. The movie faced problems from the Indian Censor Board because of some reported explicit scenes and was commercially released only after a few shots were deleted.[5]
Sen's fifth movie Bibar (Calcutta Unabashed) made in 2006 was based on a controversial Bengali classic by Samaresh Basu. The film won the best actor and best actress awards at the Osian Cinefan, New Delhi—the international film festival of Asian films.[6]
Koyekti Meyer Golpo released in domestic circle in 2012 and received flak from local critics. However, it won an entry into the competition section of Madrid International Film Festival 2013 and had nominations in Best Feature Film category and Best Costume Design. It eventually won an award in the Best Costume Design category.[7][8]
Sen's films are said to be the beginning of "urban genre" of Bengali films and are now course material in plenty of film schools in India. Though not as famous as his seniors beyond his home-state Bengal, Sen is the maverick filmmaker of Indian Cinema whose work, as felt in
Influences and impact
Sen never had any formal training in film-making. He describes making of Ek Je Achhe Kanya his first training ground. However, as a child, he came in close contact with Satyajit Ray, the master Indian filmmaker, while writing for Sandesh, a children's magazine which the maestro edited. It was probably Ray's over towering influence in childhood, which initiated Sen into delving in filmmaking.
But despite his close association with Ray, Sen has consciously avoided Ray's style of filmmaking. "Ray is a fixation of Indian Filmmakers. We have to get out of his influence and make movies which are different", he says.
Besides Ray, the person whose style influenced Sen the most was
His first film, "Ek Je Achhe Kanya" has been acknowledged by the Jadavpur University as the "First New wave Film" for the young generation in the post Satyajit Ray era. The film has been included in the university's Film Studies course from 2002.
Filmography
The following is the list of films directed by Subrata Sen. For many of these movies, Subrata Sen is also credited for the story, screenplay:
Director
Year | Film | Language | Cast |
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2001 | Ek Je Achhe Kanya |
Bengali | Konkona Sen Sharma, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Debashree Roy |
2002 | Swapner Feriwala | Bengali | Nilanjana Sharma, Dipankar De
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2003 | Nil Nirjane | Bengali | Moonmoon Sen, Raima Sen, June Malia
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2004 | Hotath Neerar Jonnyo | Bengali | Bickram Ghosh, Jaya Seal, Tina Majumdar |
2006 | Bibar | Bengali | Tannistha Chatterjee, Payel Sarkar
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Unreleased | Nondinee | Bengali | Swastika Mukherjee, Mir Asaf Ali, Others |
2012 | Those City Girls | Bengali | |
2014 | Sada Canvas | Bengali | Paoli Dam, Rohit Roy, Malobika Banerjee, Mumtaz Sorcar, Locket Chatterjee, Aparajita Ghosh |
2015 | Mister Bhaduri | Bengali | Rahul Banerjee, Malobika Banerjee, Aparajita Ghosh |
2018 | Kali (Documentary) | Bengali | Nimisha, Aparajita Ghosh |
2020 | Punglingo Strilingo | Bengali | Rahul Banerjee |
2023 | Projapoti | Bengali | Rwitobroto Mukherjee , Mumtaz Sorcar, Subrat Dutta |
Writer and novelist
Subrata Sen has written the stories for five of his movies, namely Ek Je Acche Kanya, Swapner Feriwala, Nil Nirjane, Nondinee and Koyekti Meyer Golpo and is the scriptwriter of all his movies. He is the writer and scriptwriter of all his television fiction work too. He has not worked on anyone else's script so far. Subrata Sen also has four published Bengali novels to his credit, namely Joubon Japon (
Story and screenplay
Subrata Sen often writes both story and screenplay of his films, apart from Bibar and Hotath Neerar Jonnyo. Bibar was based on famous Bengali writer Samaresh Basu's novel. Whereas Hotath Neerar Jonnyo was adapted from a short story of another famous writer Sunil Gangopadhyay.
References
- ^ "KVIFF". KVIFF. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "Gollapudi Aaward". Gollapudinational award. Archived from the original on 23 September 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "KVIFF archive". KVIFF. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012.
- ^ "NDA 'one big family', shouldn't get unsettled by small differences: PM Modi". Indian Express. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "Sudden scissorhands slap for Neera". The Telegraph. Calcutta, India. 29 June 2004. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "Festival Report". Archived from the original on 12 April 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "City girls at Madrid fest". The Times of India. Archived from the original on 11 April 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "MIFF 2013". MIFF 2013. Retrieved 23 March 2013.
- ^ "KVIFF catalogue". KVIFF. Archived from the original on 22 July 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2013.
External links
- Official website
- Subrata Sen at IMDb