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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 ...
May 12, 2024 · While Payal Kapadia-directed All We Imagine As Light, which is selected for its competition section, is a France, India, Luxembourg and Netherlands co-production, Shyam Benegal-directed Manthan (1976) is the earliest example of a film financed by crowdsourcing as 500,000 farmers, who were members of the Gujarat Co-operative Milk Marketing ...
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 ...
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 ...
Shyam Benegal. Director | Writer. Born - December 14, 1934. Shyam Benegal is a popular Director and Producer. Latest movies which Shyam Benegal has directed are Mujib: The Making Of Nation, Ankur ...
Nov 17, 2011 · Shyam Benegal was born in Trimulghery, a place near Secunderabad in Andhra Pradesh. He was born on 14th December, 1934 in a Konkani speaking family. He made his first film at the age of 12, and he did his graduation and post-graduation in Economics from Osmania University’s Nizam College.
Oct 25, 2023 · Shyam Benegal, 88, is one of India’s most revered filmmakers, with movies like Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976), Zubeidaa (2001), among others to his credit. When asked how he has managed to remain so relevant with the changing times and what advice he would give the new generation of filmmakers, Benegal said, “I have no advice to give to anybody.
