It's a bad world, don't know what should be done about it: Sen

Wed, May 14 06:34 PM

Kolkata, May 14 (PTI) Noted filmmaker Mrinal Sen is in the dark as to what should be done to set the present-day world on a better course but says he has no immediate plans to make a movie to comment on contemporary history. "I can say the country and the world are passing through very bad times.

So much killing and bloodshed! Who can like what is going on? the father of the new wave cinema in India told PTI. Asked what should have been done to make history take a different road, he said, "I do not know what could be done. I am not a politician.

" Life, however, has not yet turned full circle for Sen who turned 85. "No I don't see anything special about this day.

I keep telling my friends -- I am a year younger than what I would be next year," he said. Sen, whose autobiography "Always Being Born" reflects his penchant for new responses to contemporary social problems, however, has no plan at present to make any film to comment on contemporary history.

Though his films have earned wide accolades in festivals like Cannes, Berlin, Venice, Moscow, Karlovy Vary, Montreal, Chicago and Cairo, Sen likes to describe his work as "popular failures at the box office. "With every failure, I collapse a bit.

But I still keep making films," said Sen, who admittedly came to film making by accident and likes to describe himself as "an author by compulsion". PTI.

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