Kolkata: 34 years on, Mrinal Sen’s son shares his ‘lost’ Hindi shorts for online viewing

Thirty-four years after Kolkata Doordarshan apparently “lost” the original magnetic tapes of Mrinal Sen’s 12 Hindi short films, the director’s son has converted one of them—starring Girish Karnad and Aparna Sen—and shared it online on Monday. Since he has low resolution VHS copies of nine to 10 of these shorts made in 1986-’87, Kunal Sen has decided to convert them one by one to a format that can be viewed on YouTube.