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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, ...
1974. Ankur. Blaze Film Enterprises. National Film Award for Second Best Feature Film. 1975. Charandas Chor. Children's Film Society of India. Nishant. Blaze Film Enterprises.
Sep 1, 2021 · Change is the only constant in Mumbai, but in one of the corners of the city, consistency is the norm. Since 1977, Shyam Benegal has been punching an imaginary clock at his office in Mumbai’s ...
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. Known for his pioneering body of work, Shyam Benegal is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, whose films had the unique quality of being aesthetically superior plus commercially viable. He was the man who successfully redefined ‘alternate cinema’ and helmed films like Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika ...
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: thus the Making of the Mahatma .
Apr 2, 2022 · Filmmaker Shyam Benegal continues to be thorough and thoughtful about his work, but doesn’t mind a few crackling gaps over a telephone call to discuss it animatedly. Especially when he talks about rediscovering and retelling history, rescuing forgotten heroes or unpeeling the unknown layers of those we know all too well.
