Roopa (or Rupa) Ganguly (Bengali: রূপা গঙ্গোপাধ্যায়, rupa gônggopaddhae ; born 25 November 1966) is an Indian actress, playback singer and politician.
 She is one of the most popuplar faces of Indian television and mostly known her rendition of Draupadi in B R Chopra's hit television series "Mahabharat" (1988).
 A veteran of Bengali Parallel Cinema, she is known and for her versatility as well as keen and incisive transformation into characters.
 She has worked with renowned directors like Mrinal Sen, Aparna Sen, Goutam Ghose and Rituparno Ghosh.
 She won many awards including a National Award.
 She has been cited as the Bengali Film Industry's answer to Bollywood's Shabana Azmi for her intense ability of acting.
 She is a trained Rabindra Sangeet vocalist and a classical dancer.
 In October, 2015, she was nominated as the Member of Parliament, Rajya Sabha, by the President of India.
 She served as the President of BJP Mahila Morcha in West Bengal.
 She served as the General Secretary and the Vice President for the West Bengal Motion Picture Artistes' Forum, a body representing cine artistes.
Nitish Roy is an Indian film art director, production designer, and costume designer in Hindi cinema and a Bengali Film Director, who is also known for his work with art cinema directors, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and Govind Nihlani, Hindi mainstream cinema, directors like Rajkumar Santoshi, as well as international directors like Mira Nair and Gurinder Chadha.
Aamar Bhuvan is a 2002 Bengali film directed by Mrinal Sen.
 The film depicts a place of India where people live peacefully and love each other despite the hatred and violence that scars the rest of the nation.
 For this film director Mrinal Sen won best director's award in Cairo Film Festival in 2002.
Bhaskar Chandavarkar (16 March 1936 – 26 July 2009) was an Indian sitar player, academic and film and theatre composer who worked with well-known directors of Indian cinema like Mrinal Sen, Girish Karnad, Aparna Sen, K. G. George and Amol Palekar in various languages including Marathi, Hindi, Kannada, Malayalam, Bengali and Oriya and was known for his blending of Indian classical and western music.
Ek Din Pratidin (English title: "And Quiet Rolls the Dawn") is a 1979 Bengali film directed by Mrinal Sen.
 The film stars Mamata Shankar, Gita Sen and Sreela Majumdar, among others.
 It was entered into the 1980 Cannes Film Festival.
Kaushik Sen or Koushik Sen (Bengali: কৌশিক সেন ) is an Indian actor of film, television and theatre based in Kolkata.
 He won the prestigious BFJA awards for best supporting actor for his performance in the Mrinal Sen directed film "Aamar Bhuvan".
Calcutta 71 is a 1972 Bengali film directed by noted Indian art film director Mrinal Sen.
 This film is considered to be the second film of Mrinal Sen's Calcutta trilogy, the others being "Interview", and "Padatik".
John Richard Schlesinger, CBE ( ; 16 February 1926 – 25 July 2003) was an English film and stage director, and actor.
 He won an Academy Award for Best Director for "Midnight Cowboy", and was nominated for two other films ("Darling" and "Sunday Bloody Sunday").
Tapan Sinha (2 October 1924 – 15 January 2009) was one of the most prominent Indian film directors of his time forming a legendary quartet with Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen.
 He was primarily a Bengali filmmaker who worked both in Hindi cinema and Bengali cinema, directing films like "Kabuliwala" (1957), "Louha-Kapat", "Sagina Mahato" (1970), "Apanjan" (1968), "Kshudhita Pashan" and children's film "Safed Haathi" (1978) and "Aaj Ka Robinhood".
 Sinha started his career in 1946, as a sound engineer with New Theatres film production house in Kolkata, then in 1950 left for England where he worked at Pinewood Studios for next two years, before returning home to start his six decade long career in Indian cinema, making films in Bengali, Hindi and Oriya languages, straddling genres from social realism, family drama, labour rights, to children's fantasy films.
 He was arguably the most uncompromising filmmaker outside the orbit of Parallel Cinema.
Mrinal Sen (also spelled "Mrinal Shen", born 14 May 1923) is a legendary Indian filmmaker based in Kolkata.
 Along with his contemporaries Satyajit Ray and Ritwik Ghatak, he is often considered to be one of the greatest ambassadors of Indian parallel cinema on the global stage.
 Like the works of Ray and Ghatak, his cinema is known for its artistic depiction of social reality.
 Although the three directors shared a healthy rivalry, they were ardent admirers of each other's work, and in so doing, they charted the independent trajectory of parallel cinema, as a counterpoint to the mainstream fare of Hindi cinema in India.
 Mrinal Sen is an ardent follower of Marxist Philosophy.

Question: Are John Schlesinger and Mrinal Sen both English film directors?
Answer: no