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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 ...
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, ...
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 .
Oct 22, 2023 · Shyam Benegal (right) directs Arifin Shuvoo, who plays the role of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. Running to packed houses in Bangladesh, ‘Mujib: The Making of a Nation’ is set for release in India on ...
Shyam Benegal is a critically acclaimed independent filmmaker, screenwriter and public intellectual of India. With his first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) he became the pioneer of new genre of films known as “Parallel Cinema” in India.
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 ...
