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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, ...
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.
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shyam Benegal. Highest Rated: 100% Ankur (1974) Lowest Rated: 100% Ankur (1974) Birthday: Dec 14, 1934. Birthplace: Alwal, Hyderabad, British India. Key figure in the new generation of serious ...
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934, in Trimulgherry, near Secunderabad is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975) Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike ...
