“Padatik,” a birth centenary homage to Indian auteur Mrinal Sen, is in post-production and is aiming to launch at a major film festival this fall. Sen is probably India’s most rev…
, is in post-production and is aiming to launch at a major film festival this fall. Sen is probably India’s most revered filmmaker after Satyajit Ray.
“The overarching influence of the Holy Trinity [Ray, Ghatak, Sen], as well as Tapan Sinha has been huge right from my childhood,” “Padatik” director. Mukherji debuted with “Autograph” , which was an homage to Ray’s “Nayak” and he says that the film-within-film portions of the feature draw from “Akaler Sandhane,” his favorite Sen film.
Mukherji based the “Padatik” script on Sen’s journals, articles, essays and letters; books by Shiladitya Sen and Dipankar Mukhopadhyay; personal anecdotes from the upcoming memoir “Bondhu,” by Mrinal Sen’s son Kunal, who also contributed many more details of his father’s life; and personal accounts and oral history from discussions with film studies professor Sanjoy Mukhopadhyay, film collector Debasis Mukhopadhyay and actors who Sen had worked with, including Dhritiman Chatterjee, Mamata...
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