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- After returning to Mumbai, he received independent financing and Ankur (The Seedling) was finally made in 1973. It was a realistic drama of economic and sexual exploitation in his home state, Telangana, and Benegal instantly shot to fame.
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Starting his career as a copywriter, he made his first Documentary film in Gujarati, Gher Betha Ganga (Ganges at the Doorstep) in 1962. Benegal's first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) made him a pioneer of the new wave film movement of that period. [ 4 ]
Shyam Benegal’s Mujib: The Making of a Nation, based on the life of Bangladesh’s first president, Mujibur Rehman released in theatres in late October but failed to make a mark at the box office.
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Sep 1, 2021 · Since 1977, Shyam Benegal has been punching an imaginary clock at his office in Mumbai’s Tardeo neighbourhood. He arrives here at around 10 am and usually leaves before 6 pm.
Dec 22, 2011 · 22 December 2011. The Indian director of the controversial Nishant speaks about his career in film and television. Benegal has made 24 fiction features for the cinema, several documentaries and TV series, most notably a 53 hour TV series on the History of India.
It’s true, and unavoidable. So here goes: The filmmaker started his career 47 years ago with Ankur (1974), a story about a Dalit couple and their upper-caste landlord that was Shabana Azmi’s ...
Nov 16, 2021 · Shyam Benegal, 86, is in Dhaka busy wrapping up his magnum opus on the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman — the central figure behind the Bangladesh Liberation Movement and the founder of independent Bangladesh. He has already braved the pandemic and shot a major chunk of the shoot in Mumbai’s Film City.
Apr 25, 2020 · It may sound surprising but Shyam Benegal, one of India’s foremost, most respected and well-known film directors, had to wait 13 long years before he found a producer willing to take up the script for his breakthrough project, Ankur (1974). There was no looking back thereafter.
