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Jun 16, 2024 · Shyam Benegal, a groundbreaking filmmaker and a key figure in the development of Indian parallel cinema, has made an enduring impact on the industry with his profound narratives, social consciousness, and innovative cinematic techniques.
- Amit Diwan
Jun 27, 2024 · Shyam Benegal’s ‘Manthan’ (1976) can be reviewed as one of the first Hindi films to showcase a newly independent India struggling to engage with modern ideas of economic development and social...
Jun 8, 2024 · To celebrate the film's restoration screenings, director Shyam Benegal, the Film Heritage Foundation director Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, and the "surviving members of the ship Manthan," as Naseeruddin Shah called them, joined moviegoers for a special premiere of the film in Mumbai.
Jun 23, 2024 · At a time when the resurrected cult film, Manthan, is making the global cine audience sit up, the author dials master director Shyam Benegal. Paromita Kar Published 23.06.24, 08:08 AM. Shyam Benegal Pictures, courtesy Film Heritage Foundation.
- Paromita Kar
Jun 29, 2024 · ‘Ankur’ was part of the Shyam Benegal trilogy with ‘Nishant’ and ‘Manthan’, exploring the transition within India from the feudal system that prevailed and continued to prevail. ‘Ankur’ was set in the background feudal oppression in the microcosmic rural world of a village in feudal state of Andhra Pradesh.
6 days ago · Any discussion of Shyam Benegal’s classic Manthan (1976) often focusses on the fact that the film was crowdfunded by half a million milk producers of rural Gujarat and that it narrates the inspirational story of Verghese Kurien, the maverick persona behind India’s “White Revolution”.
Jun 10, 2024 · So watching Shyam Benegal’s 1976 directorial feature—India’s first crowdfunded film financed by 5,00,000 farmers of Gujarat who famously contributed ₹ 2/- each—at a PVR on a Saturday evening felt like a wish fulfilled.
