Pioneering Indian filmmaker Shyam Benegal died Monday in Mumbai following ... a move into feature films in the early 1970s. His first, Ankur (The Seedling), starred Anant Nag and Shabana Azmi ...
"Shyam Benegal has been my guru in everything, not just in acting but in the way I view the world. When I went abroad for Ankur with him to the Berlin Film Festival and, as a young kid with stars ...
The professor from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, speaks about his new book on one of India’s greatest filmmakers ...
I find his sense of history astounding, not just history of film, but of life in general.' Another fascinating excerpt from ...
Ankur remains a searing, pain-lashed comment on social inequality with a career-defining performance by Shabana Azmi. The eyebrows apart. Shyam Benegal’s Ankur started the tsunami in Indian ...
Filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who passed away at 90 on December ... With cinematography from Govind Nihalani and Kamath Ghanekar, Ankur clinched three National Film Awards, including the Second Best ...
Benegal’s debut film is a landmark in Indian parallel cinema. Ankur is a searing portrayal of caste and gender inequality in rural India, revolving around a landlord's illicit relationship with ...
Benegal directed 24 features, scores of documentaries and short films, and a few serials for television, including the monumental Bharat Ek Khoj (1998), based on Jawaharlal Nehru’s Discovery of India.
Pioneering director who played a vital role in India’s ‘parallel cinema’ movement, and used his films to explore difficult ...
Shyam Benegal, a pivotal figure in Indian cinema ... His debut fiction feature, “Ankur” (1974), became a cornerstone of Indian cinema, earning critical acclaim for its unflinching portrayal ...