Supriya Chaudhuri

Form, Structure and Agency in Mrinal Sen’s Calcutta 71

Mrinal Sen called Calcutta 71 (1972) ‘a kind of collage, a collection of apparently unrelated events and objects’. But in fact, the film bears evidence of anxious and overtly articulate composition, both in the three ‘one-day’ stories, based on literary originals and set in succe...