| | 4 | Bengali director who started out, unsuccessfully, as an actor. Then assistant to Aravind Mukherjee (1962-5). Directorial début with an experimental Hindi film, followed by a hit Bengali film and continued directing in that language, bemoaning the passing of his notion of village life in Bengal (Aaj Kal Parshur Galpa) and the Calcutta middle-class sense of disorientation which turns politically and economically weak men into violent oppressors of women (Chopper). The women in his films tend to stand for the values of a pre-modern patriarchal order. Unsuccessfully tried to extend Mrinal Sen’s early-70s approach in the 80s. |