Live: Bhiwandi building collapse death toll rises to 8.Live: India reports 4,282 new cases in last 24 hours.Srijit is directing a fictionalized biography as a multipart web series, called ‘Padatik’ (The Foot Soldier)’.”

Kunal said, “The film is based on the interaction between the two of them during the making of ‘Chalachitra’. He, too, is making a personal feature film. Many of the original actors from Sen’s film will return. If it distorts things significantly then that would be a problem.” Ganguly’s feature, ‘Palan’, is taking the characters of ‘Kharij’ and placing them 40 years ahead in current times. Having understood that, I don’t have much resistance towards a biopic. The more research is done, the fictional part gets closer to reality. So a biopic maker must imagine the specific details based on the public information available. All biopics are partially factionalized as no one would know what was spoken in the privacy of a bedroom. Asked if he is comfortable with the idea of a feature length biopic being made with real life names and actors playing Sen, son Kunal said, “Srijit’s work is probably a biopic in the sense he will probably use real names. Romesh Sharma’s ‘Portrait of a Filmmaker’ (1999) and Chidananda Dasgupta’s ‘Mrinal Sen Revisited’ (2001), Nripen Gangopadhyay’s ‘Mrinal Sen: Self and Cinema’ (2013), Ananya Banerjee’s ‘Celebrating Mrinal Sen’ (2013) and RV Ramani’s ‘A Documentary Proposal’ (2014) followed next. Less than a decade later, Supantho Bhattacharya directed another documentary, ‘A Man Behind the Curtain’ (1998). Bhattacharya’s ‘With Mrinal Sen’ (1989), which was screened as part of Mrinal99 celebrations organized by West Bengal Film Journalists' Association in association with SRFTI on Saturday, traced the script-to-screen journey of ‘Ek Din Achanak’. When Sen conceived ‘ Ek Din Achanak’, his long-time associate Sanjoy Bhattacharya, decided to follow the maestro to document the making of the film. Hauff’s documentary was a dialogue between two filmmakers from two different continents but with similar problems and concerns. While one new project is a feature film by Kaushik Ganguly that looks back at his ‘Kharij’, the three others by Srijit Mukherji, Anjan Dutt and Arindam Saha Sardar are partially biographical. On his 99th birth anniversary on Saturday, there is news of new works being on the anvil. The interest spilled over to this century with the likes of Chidananda Dasgupta and Nripen Gangopadhyay. It began in the ’80s with Abhijit Dasgupta’s ‘Mrinal Sen’ (1981) and German film director Reinhard Hauff’s ‘Ten Days in Calcutta - A Portrait of Mrinal Sen’ (1984). Kolkata: Since 1981, director Mrinal Sen has piqued the interest of many filmmakers who have made documentaries on him or his works.

Ten Days in Calcutta by Reinhard Hauff