Pioneering director who played a vital role in India’s ‘parallel cinema’ movement, and used his films to explore difficult ...

Shyam Benegal, one of India’s greatest filmmakers who was a prominent ... Benegal, burst on the scene with Ankur in 1974. Real, poetic, genuine and disturbing, Ankur also marked the debut of actors ...

The 55th edition of International Film Festival of India has gone off well. The line up of films is ascribed as one reason ...

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 ...

The seminar room at the Guruswamy Centre was packed to capacity recently, as Hyderabadis gathered to celebrate the life and ...

Shyam Benegal (December 14 ... we present a list of the best films directed by the revered filmmaker. Ankur (1974) ...

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 ...

He was 90. Shyam Benegal, celebrated for poignant and hard-hitting films like Ankur, Nishant, Mandi, Manthan and Zubeidaa, examined the main fault lines of Indian society, tackling issues of ...

Renowned filmmaker Shyam Benegal, celebrated for his impactful movies like Ankur and Bhumika, passed away at 90. In a recent ...

I don't think Waheeda had the confidence that I could pull it off, so she said no.' IMAGE: Shabana Azmi in Ankur. Shyam Benegal started his film career with the brilliant Ankur. The 1974 film not ...

The film was Ankur, starring a young Shabana Azmi, who knew my friend's cousin. The director of the film was a man named Shyam Benegal. Decades before social media and the Internet, we would hear ...