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16 February 2006 – 15 February 2012. 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. [1]
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 ...
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Bollywood film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker Shyam Benegal attends the special screening of his upcoming biographical film Mujib: The Making of a Nation, a biopic on Bangabandhu...
- Sanjukta Sharma
Early career. In 1959, he started working as a copywriter at a Mumbai-based advertising agency, Lintas Advertising, where he steadily rose to become the creative head. Meanwhile, Benegal made his first documentary in Gujarati, Gher Betha Ganga (Ganges at the Doorstep) in 1962.
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).
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Apr 25, 2020 · It may sound surprising but Shyam Benegal, one of India’s foremost, most respected and well-known film directors, had to wait 13 long years before he found a producer willing to take up the script for his breakthrough project, Ankur (1974). There was no looking back thereafter.
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 ...
