Shyam Benegal is known as a pioneer of Indian ... serial Bharat Ek Khoj (1988), based on Jawaharlal Nehru's Discovery of India. This series, which explored India's rich history, became a milestone ...
He won acclaim from critics and audiences even as the gritty stories he put on the big screen grappled with some of India’s ...
Benegal, celebrated for classics like Ankur and Manthan, shaped Indian cinema with socially impactful storytelling ...
Politicians across the spectrum paid tribute to veteran filmmaker and auteur Shyam Benegal ... Ek Khoj’ based on Pandit Nehru’s ‘The Discovery of India’ and the series ‘Samvidhaan ...
NEW DELHI (AP) — Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues ...
Shyam Benegal, an Indian filmmaker known for his incisive and socially conscious storytelling, died on Monday. He was 90.
Fondly called Shyam Babu by friends and colleagues, Benegal was a pillar of meaningful cinema of the 1970s and 1980s alongside Sai Paranjpye, Govind Nihalani, Mani Kaul, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, and ...