{"product_id":"9781803091761","title":"Always Being Born - A Memoir by Mrinal Sen","description":"An outspoken memoir by a much-celebrated Indian filmmaker.    ? \"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. Always Being Born 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.    ?\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Paperback \/ softback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56307343622517,"sku":"9781803091761","price":19.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781803091761.jpg?v=1762803606","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781803091761","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}