Did you know Mrinal Sen was forced to be a medical representative?

Not many people know that Mrinal Sen was once forced to take up a job of a medical representative, which took him away from Calcutta. However, this did not last very long, and he came back to the city. Mrinal Sen eventually took the job of an audio technician in a Calcutta film studio which was the beginning of his film career. And the rest is history!
Known for taking up non-conventional themes, Mrinal Sen once said that he sometimes departs from the usual beginning, middle and end approach to a narrative.With his films filled with social analysis and psychological drama, the Left-leaning director had bagged four National Film Awards as the best director and was awarded the Padma Bhushan in 1983.
According to the master filmmaker, cinema was, to a large extent, a technological performance. However, experimentation and non-conformity are critical to evolve with the medium.
He showed how camera and direction can become the ideal medium to question the circumstances at that time. Being an iconoclast, the renowned filmmaker used to romanticize a poverty-stricken India which made him a class apart from others.