Mrinal Sen, one of the three classic masters of the Bengali school of Indian cinema with Ritwik Ghatak and Satyajit Ray, who had debuted with the mediocre Raat Bhorey/ Dawn (1955) and the anti-imperialist Neel Akasher Neechey/ Under the Blue Sky (1959), the first film banned in India, described the crisis of the transition from rural society to urban society in Baishey Shravana/ Wedding Day (1960), which tells the struggles of an emigrant. Akash Kusum/ Up in the Clouds (1965) told the story of a lower-class man who climbs the ladders of society and began his experimental political cinema. His political intent only grew from there, dealing with unemployment, workers conditions, student rebellion, and so on, but always maintaining the urban setting of Kolkata, with all its poverty and unrest.