The professor from St. Xavier’s College, Kolkata, speaks about his new book on one of India’s greatest filmmakers ...

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

The film industry and art world are mourning the loss of the legendary filmmaker Shyam Benegal, whose pioneering work left an indelible mark on Indian cinema. Shyam Benegal, a master storyteller and ...

The opening day of the event featured prominent figures like William Dalrymple, Ila Arun, Milind Soman, Shobhaa De, and ...

When the British Film Institute commissioned two films on Indian directors as part of their World Directors series, I was asked to write on Shyam Benegal while Rachel Dwyer wrote on Yash Chopra.

Ray, we have been told, would have liked this film to be more Benegal than Ray, more of an evaluation of or response to his entire corpus. I recall Benegal thinking aloud on the same lines after a ...

I find his sense of history astounding, not just history of film, but of life in general.' Another fascinating excerpt from Sangeeta Datta's book Shyam Benegal.

Pioneering director who played a vital role in India’s ‘parallel cinema’ movement, and used his films to explore difficult issues Shyam Benegal being interviewed during the Australian film festival in ...

This liveblog is now closed. Filmmaker Shyam Benegal, a giant of Indian cinema and one of the guiding lights of the Parallel Cinema movement, passed away due to kidney-related ailments in Mumbai ...

Dec. 26, 2024 Shyam Benegal, an Indian filmmaker who in a career that began in the 1970s made many of his country’s best-loved films — mostly heavy-hitting features that addressed social ...

Iconic Indian film director and screenwriter Shyam Benegal took his last breath at Mumbai's Wockhardt Hospital on Monday, December 23. He died at the age of 90 due to a chronic kidney disease ...

If there is one thing Shyam Benegal expressed best: It was the Poetry of the ordinary face and ordinary lives.' Photograph: Rediff Archives Shyam Benegal, who heralded the Indian parallel cinema ...