Name
of the Film: Antareen
Name of the Director: Mrinal
Sen
Plot
Summary: A love story about a young writer in search
of inspiration in an old country mansion, Antareen is a cinematic
adoption of Sadat Hassan Manto's story. The young writer strikes
up a telephonic relationship with an anonymous female caller.
These conversations provide the writer with material for his
fiction. In the end, the two protagonists meet each other in
a train compartment
Filmmaker
Bio:
 Date
of birth (location): 14 May 1923 Faridpur, East Bengal,
British India. [Now in Bangladesh]
Sen is one of his nation's most politically active filmakers.
In the mid-1940s he joined the Indian People's Theatre Association
and at that time began to read about and study film. Sen used
location shooting and non-professional casts in his early films.
By the 1970s he was making wider use of symbolism and allegory.
Sen's films have won numerous international awards. Kharij (1982)
is a scathing look at the hypocritical reaction of a bourgeois
Calcutta family to the death of a servant boy, took home the
Jury Prize from the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
Cast
and lead cast bios:
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