- Subrata Sen
Infobox Celebrity
name = Subrata Sen
birth_date = birth date and age|1963|05|29
birth_place =
occupation =Film director ,film producer ,screenwriter
website = http://www.subratasen.com
footnotes = Banner: Subrata Sen CommunicationsSubrata Sen (born
May 29 ,1963 ) is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indianfilm director , writer and producer.Biography
Early life
Subrata Sen was born in Kolkata in 1963.After a brief stint in a bank as an officer, he joined journalism in 1987 in Anandabazar Patrika, the largest circulated daily in India. He shifted from ABP to The Statesman in 1992, then he joined Bangla live dot com, a internet magazin where he remained till he made his first film Ek Je Achhe Kanya ( The Girl) in 2001. This movie is a frame by frame lift off from "The Crush" starring Alicia Silverstone
Influences & 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 in to 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
Jean Luc Godard . "We have to break all forms and all moulds to make Bengali film survive. Godard is our ideal," is Sen's frank admission. Incidentally Subrata Sen's second film, Swapner Feriwala, is a tribute to Godard.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
tory and Screenplay
Subrata Sen often writes both story and screenplay of his films, apart from "Bibar" and "Hatath Nirar Janya". "Bibar" was based on famous Bengali writer Samaresh Bose's novel. Where as "Hatath Nirar Janya" was adapted from a short story of another famous writer Sunil Gangopadhay.
en's quotes:
"Am a normal human being. Take me or leave me.And the normal human being said, "Let there be light, sound and action..."
"Cinema is a way of life but life is not only about cinema. A filmmaker now, having done five movies and three television films in the past six years, but it's not only cinema that holds my interests.Started off long ago as a journalist with ABP, changed to Statesman and worked in Kolkata and Delhi for long years. In 2001 my first movie Ek Je Aachhe Kanya, (which was Konkona Sensharma's debut movie too) was released and suddenly I turned a filmmaker."
ee also
* http://www.subratasen.com
References
External links
*http://www.cerebration.org/subratasen.html
*http://www.arjoe.com/kvff.htm
*http://www.arjoe.com/sferi/feriwala.shtml
*http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060224/asp/etc/story_5881926.asp
*http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040620/asp/calcutta/story_3394623.asp
*http://www.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/11092729.cms
*http://www.banglatorrents.com/bangla-movies-main/3552-nil-nirjone-subrata-sen.html
*http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20050326/saturday/main1.htm
*http://www.timeout.com/film/people/355445/subrata-sen.html
*http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1387307/
*http://www.kviff.com/en/film-archive-detail/20021385--and-they-dared-to-dream/
*http://www.rediff.com/entertai/2000/jun/09kon.htm
*http://www.onshack.com/57121-movie/nil-nirjane
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