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Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. He has received several accolades, including eighteen National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award.In 2005, he was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema.In 1976, he was honoured by the Government of India with ...
Year Title Other notes 1986: Yatra: Commissioned by Indian Railways on trans-India Himsagar Express: Katha Sagar: 1988: Bharat Ek Khoj: Based on Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India: 1995: Amaravati ki Kathayein: Based on Amaravathi Kathalu in Telugu by Sankaramanchi Sathyam: 1997 Sankranti: 10-episode serial, dwelling on the legislations and decisions of the Government over 50 years for the Golden Jubilee celebrations of India's Independence: 2014
Shyam Benegal. Director: Ankur: The Seedling. Shyam Benegal was born on 14 December 1934 in Tirumalagiri, Hyderabad State, British India. He is a director and producer, known for Ankur: The Seedling (1974), Bhumika (1977) and Trikal (Past, Present, Future) (1985). He is married to Nira Benegal.
Nov 16, 2021 · Written by Ananya Ghosh. Shyam Benegal, 86, is in Dhaka busy wrapping up his magnum opus on the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — the central figure behind the Bangladesh Liberation Movement and the founder of independent Bangladesh.He has already braved the pandemic and shot a major chunk of the shoot in Mumbai’s Film City.
Shyam Benegal’s Mujib: The Making of a Nation, based on the life of Bangladesh’s first president, Mujibur Rehman released in theatres in late October but failed to make a mark at the box ...
Shyam Benegal (born December 14, 1934, Trimulgherry, Secunderabad, British India [now part of Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh, India]) is a leading Indian director of nonmainstream Hindi cinema and one of its most prolific filmmakers. He is considered a founder of the movement of realistic and issue-based filmmaking known variously as New Indian cinema, New Wave Indian cinema, or parallel cinema.. Benegal’s father was a professional photographer originally from Karnataka, and, as a result ...
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, Mujib: The ...
Shyam Benegal is an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. He has received several accolades, including eighteen National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award. In 2005, he was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. In 1976, he was honoured by the Government of India with the Padma Shri, the ...
Oct 31, 2023 · 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.
Audiences would come to recognise and love Benegal’s craft through subsequent films such as Nishant (1975) and Manthan (1976), stark tales, startlingly real, exquisitely lit, that followed ...
