Always Being Born

<b>An outspoken memoir by a much-celebrated Indian filmmaker.</b> <p/> I am a filmmaker by accident and an author by compulsion claims Mrinal Sen who became part of the great triumvirate of Bengali cinema--along with Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak--in the 1950s and '60s when he founded the rebellious Indian New Wave. Throughout his career he kept that fire of protest burning his acute political awareness and left-wing orientation spurring his creativity. Over decades the themes that pervaded his cinema mirrored the spectrum of human suffering and experience and in turn crystallized the anger of a restive mind against social injustice economic deprivation and communal divide. In this memoir a celebrated ambassador of Indian cinema on the global stage for whom cinema became a lexicon that gave voice to the times reflects on encounters with the legends of the world of images as well as his inspirations and obsessions--not least among them the city of Calcutta. <i>Always Being Born</i> is a fascinating memoir of a great artist and a buoyant social commentator who continued to confront fight and survive on the very challenges that propelled him to look beyond and dream. <br>