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

It was a standout year, and not just in Indian politics. 1975, the year of the Emergency, spelt gold for Hindi cinema with ...

A young Preeti Sagar won the Filmfare Award for Best Playback Singer in 1976 for singing My heart is beating from the film ...

The famous British film critic Derek Malcolm said, "Shyam Benegal’s films provided a huge marker for other young directors of what was once hopefully called the Indian parallel cinema." ...

Shyam Benegal is the towering titan who carried his ... He believed in accessibility – be it his films, an enquiring journalist or a young filmmaker looking for guidance. Accessibility to ...

Since Shyam Benegal's father, Sridhar B. Benegal was a photographer, his interest in filmmaking sprouted at a very young age. At the tender age of 12, Shyam made his first film using a camera ...

Javed Akhtar is heartbroken that his friend, collaborator and someone he considered a stalwart and colossus is no more. The ...

When asked if he still feels envy and jealousy, Shyam Benegal replied that he used to feel envy when he was young. When asked who was the filmmaker he was most envious of, Shyam Benegal replied ...

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 ...

Back in 1974, a young writer with a unique creative vision made a decision to revolutionise mainstream Indian cinema. His name was Shyam Benegal, and over the course of three decades, he pioneered the ...

Satyadev Dubey and Shyam Benegal Starring: Shabana Azmi, Sadhu Meher, Anant Nag and more The story follows Lakshmi a girl belonging to a lower caste and her deaf-mute husband Kishtayya. They both ...

“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 in ...