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Mar 15, 2024 · Shyam Benegal, 89, the filmmaker who’s the director behind several National Award-winning feature films, numerous documentaries and short films, released his twenty-third feature, ...
Shyam Benegal has also produced movies for various government organizations and a 53-episode television series on Jawaharlal Nehru’s Discovery of India called Bharat Ek Khoj (1988). He is also a respected documentary film-maker, and his most recent endeavor in this direction is a cinematic study of the early years of Gandhi in South Africa ...
Ankur (1974): Shyam Benegal’s debut feature, and the feature-film debut of Shabana Azmi (above). She plays a married Dalit woman who has an affair with the upper-caste son of a village zamindar ...
Oct 31, 2023 · 31 Oct 2023, 2:29 am. Director Shyam Benegal, aged 88, showed up to the Mumbai premiere of his latest, and perhaps most expensive film, Mujib: The Making Of A Nation (2023) in a cream half-sleeve shirt, pants, chappals and his walking stick. Benegal has no patience for fanfare, even as the moment demanded it.
Oct 22, 2023 · As an Indo-Bangla biopic on Sheikh Mujibur Rahman hits theatres, director Shyam Benegal, the pioneer of parallel cinema, reflects on his five-decade-long journey. At 88, perfection remains his ...
The restored version of Shyam Benegal’s landmark film Manthan, starring late actor Smita Patil, made a glorious return to the spotlight with its screening at the Cannes film festival, and the ...
Oct 20, 2021 · So it was with the veteran film-maker Shyam Benegal and cinema icon Satyajit Ray. Then an upcoming swimmer, Benegal had gone to participate in national swimming championships in Calcutta in the mid 1950s. His uncle casually asked him if he had seen Pather Panchali then showing to goodly crowds in the city. On his advice, Benegal went to see the ...
