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

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Shyam Benegal is known as a pioneer of Indian parallel cinema. For those born in the late 70s and 80s, and who grew into ...

Bhansali's first encounter with Benegal was 'warm' Bhansali recalled his first meeting with Benegal, saying, "There was no ...

The prolific singer-actress Ila Arun’s association with Shyam Benegal was long and rewarding. “Mandi was released in 1982, so you can count the years,” she said. “I was almost in all his ventures and ...

The actress recalled working with Benegal in the mini-TV series Samvidhaan. She shared a set of BTS pictures and wrote, “A sad week for India where multiple icons have passed on. The passing away of ...

Several renowned personalities passed away in 2024, leaving a void not only in the industry but also in the hearts of their ...

That Satyajit Ray and Shyam Benegal started their cinematic journeys two decades apart is not the point here, but it is the nebulous idea of freedom they chased is what connects them to the humanistic ...

Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian filmmaker known for pioneering a cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died after chronic kidney disease.

Nationalist would be the most erroneous description to use for Shyam Benegal, even though his cinema remained perennially ...

Gangubai Kathiawadi filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali is the latest filmmaker to pay tribute to late writer-director Shyam ...