Name
of the Film: Ek Din Achanak (Suddenly One Day)
Name of the Director: Mrinal
Sen
 Plot
Summary: Ek Din Achanak in Hindi can be loosely translated
as, "One day, without warning." This movie beautifully
captures the vagaries of life in a typical middle-class home
in a nondescript city in India. The subject of the movie is
a retired professor who walks out on a rainy day and disappears
without any reasons. The story unfolds as the family reacts
to this disappearance first with shock, then sorrow, resignation
and finally acceptance. This story is told with the lyrical
background of rain and the pace is leisurely. No explanations
are given, nor any analysis performed. The director tries to
keep the movie focused on the central theme without degenerating
the plot to a thriller.
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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