People Person
Montage: Life, Politics, Cinema
By Mrinal Sen, The University of Chicago Press, $27.50
MRINAL SEN ONCE QUOTED A LETTER THAT NOVELIST Elio Vittorini sent to Communist Party leader Palmiro Togliatti in the 1940s: “The point is not to pocket the truth, but to chase the, a recently republished collection of his writings—in his cinematic crusade against the class inequalities and bourgeois conservatism of postcolonial India. In 1959, his became the first film to be banned in independent India; six decades later, his retrospectives still experience censorship.
