A documentary about making a documentary about a man who hates being documented. Delicious.
Films Division, decides to make a documentary film on the renowned filmmaker Mrinal Sen. Officials from the Films Division go to Mrinal Sen’s house in Kolkata to officially propose the making of the documentary film on him.
Direction
Ramani turns bureaucratic procedure into deadpan art
Writing
Unscripted tension between filmmaker and subject
Director
R. V. Ramani
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Films Division was India's state propaganda arm since 1948; Sen's Marxist politics made this proposal inherently absurd.
Sen actually made his own anti-bureaucracy masterpiece 'Interview' (1971); this proposal accidentally becomes its spiritual sequel.
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