Mrinal Sen (also spelled Mrinal Shen; Born on14 May 1923 in a Baidya-brahmin family[2] and died on 30 December 2018) was an Indian film director and a nominated Member of the Indian parliament. Sen directed films primarily in Bengali and Hindi. Along with his contemporaries Ritwik Ghatak, Tapan Sinha and Satyajit Ray he pioneered the New Wave cinema in India.