The 7th South Asian Short Film Festival is being held at Nandan-III, Kolkata, showing 116 short fiction and documentary films from 18 countries in five sections.
Despite the state government lifting the 50 per cent occupancy norms and relaxing the rules, screening venues like Nandan I, II, III, Rabindra Sadan and Sisir Mancha, were less crowded as compared to pre-Covid times.
While studying in college, Mrinal Sen joined the cultural wing of the Communist Party. He, however, never participated in active politics. In an interview, the legendary filmmaker had called himself a ‘private Marxist’