Bengali classic by Samaresh Basu. The film won the best actor and best actress awards at the Osian Cinefan, New Delhi—the international film festival of Asian films. Koyekti Meyer Golpo released in domestic circle in 2012 and received flak from local critics. However, it won an entry into the competition section of Madrid International Film Festival 2013 and had nominations in Best Feature Film category and Best Costume Design. It eventually won an award in the Best Costume Design category. Sen's films are said to be the beginning of "urban genre" of Bengali films and are now course material in plenty of film schools in India. Though not as famous as his seniors beyond his home-state Bengal, Sen is the maverick filmmaker of Indian Cinema whose work, as felt in Karlovy Vary Film Festival catalogue, strongly resembles that of Pedro Almodóvar. Influences and impact Sen never had any formal training in film-making. He describes making of Ek Je Achhe Kanya his first training ground. However, as a child, he came in close contact with Satyajit Ray, the master Indian filmmaker, while writing for Sandesh, a children's magazine which the maestro edited. It was probably Ray's over towering influence in childhood, which initiated Sen into delving in filmmaking. But despite his close association with Ray, Sen has consciously avoided Ray's style of filmmaking. "Ray is a fixation of Indian Filmmakers. We have to get out of his influence and make movies which are different", he says. Besides Ray, the person whose style influenced Sen the most was Jean-Luc Godard. "We have to break all forms and all moulds to make Bengali film survive. Godard is our ideal", is Sen's frank admission. Incidentally Subrata Sen's second film, Swapner Feriwala, is a tribute to Godard. His first film, "Ek Je Achhe Kanya" has been acknowledged by the Jadavpur University as the "First New wave Film" for the young generation in the post Satyajit Ray era. The film has been included in the university's Film Studies course from 2002. Filmography The following is the list of films directed by Subrata Sen. For many of these movies, Subrata Sen is also credited for the story, screenplay: Director Writer and novelist Subrata Sen has written the stories for five of his movies, namely Ek Je Acche Kanya, Swapner Feriwala, Nil Nirjane, Nondinee and Koyekti Meyer Golpo and is the scriptwriter of all his movies. He is