The Jaipur International Film Festival 2025 will honor filmmakers Yash Chopra with the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award ...

Shyam Benegal (December 14, 1934 – December 23, 2024) was a celebrated Indian film director, screenwriter, and documentary ...

He won acclaim from critics and audiences even as the gritty stories he put on the big screen grappled with some of India’s ...

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 ...

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 ...

Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...