Shyam Benegal (Hindi:श्याम बेनेगल; born 14 December 1934) is an Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India. He has expressed dislike of the term, preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema.
Shyam Benegal, was born on 14 December 1934 in Trimulgherry,Secunderabad, then a British Cantonment, and now a twin city of the state capital, as Shyam Sunder Benegal. It was here, at age twelve, that he made his first film, on a camera given to him by his photographer father, Sridhar B. Benegal. He received an M.A. in Economics from Nizam College, Osmania University, Hyderabad. There he formed the Hyderabad Film Society.
Let’s Talk films with Anurag Kashyap and Shyam Benegal
On Mid-day’s 40th anniversary, journalist Mayank Shekhar caught up with legendary filmmakers #ShyamBenegal and #AnuragKashyap to discuss the past 40 years in films. Anurag Kashyap revealed details on his guerilla shooting tactics during #GangsOfWasseypur and #BlackFriday. The director also credited #ShahRukhKhan for bringing the theatre scene alive in Mumbai. From the changing trends in Bollywood cinema to social media trolls, the directors got candid during this chat with mid-day. The Let’s Talk series brings together influencers and game changers across time and fields to compare notes on the Bombay that was, and how it got to where we are today.
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Shyam Benegal on late actress Smita Patil: 'She was the hub of the story in Bhumika'
Shyam Benegal says "Well you see she was very young as you know she was still in college when she started films with me. The first film that I made was a children's film with her and when we did that she was still very young who had come from Pune. She was very enthusiastic about a lot of things but had no real ambition to be a film actress. One of the things that I remember is that she used to do a lot of very good work. When she was there on film she used to do wonderful work."
Known for his pioneering body of work, Shyam Benegal is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, whose films had the unique quality of being aesthetically superior plus commercially viable. He was the man who successfully redefined ‘alternate cinema’ and helmed films like Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976)...
published: 01 Oct 2019
Shyam Benegal on open letter to PM Modi over growing intolerance
'There’s communalizing happening in everything, and it isn’t good in a country like ours': Shyam Benegal, Director & Screenwriter, tells Herman Gomes. | #HindusLinkedToHate
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Benegal's New Cinema
The ethos and concerns of the New Cinema Movement, through Shyam Benegal's pathbreaking cinematic oeuvre. Awarded at SAARC and screened at New York, Gansu, Edinburgh, Madrid, Kochi, Goa, Bhubaneshwar, Auroville and Kabul.
Directed by Iram Ghufran | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Iram Ghufran is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts, including Berlin, Experimenta India, SAARC Film Festival and ISEA, among others. Iram pursued a practice based PhD at the University of Westminster, London.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are avail...
published: 11 Jan 2016
Shyam Benegal on 'Ankur' and meaningful cinema - it took 12 years to make the film
Indian films director, Shyam Benegal speaks about his film 'Ankur', he says, "Ankur the story about that is very long one, I won't bore you with the details but the most important thing is about it was that I've written a short story when I was in college and as I rewrote the scripts for Ankur for a long period of time and after I was ready with the script of the film then too it took another 12 years before I could actually make the film because nobody was willing to buy an idea like that, I couldn't find producers until I found Blaze there were two people Mohan J. Bijlani and Freni Variava these two people for some reason felt that they could trust me for the subject like this and that how I got to make the film but I had to wait for 12 years before I could find a producer for that.
The...
On Mid-day’s 40th anniversary, journalist Mayank Shekhar caught up with legendary filmmakers #ShyamBenegal and #AnuragKashyap to discuss the past 40 years in fi...
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Shyam Benegal says "Well you see she was very young as you know she was still in college when she started films with me. The first film that I made was a childr...
Shyam Benegal says "Well you see she was very young as you know she was still in college when she started films with me. The first film that I made was a children's film with her and when we did that she was still very young who had come from Pune. She was very enthusiastic about a lot of things but had no real ambition to be a film actress. One of the things that I remember is that she used to do a lot of very good work. When she was there on film she used to do wonderful work."
Known for his pioneering body of work, Shyam Benegal is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, whose films had the unique quality of being aesthetically superior plus commercially viable. He was the man who successfully redefined ‘alternate cinema’ and helmed films like Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977). Seven-time National Award winner, the veteran director was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. For his phenomenal contribution to the Indian film industry, Benegal was awarded Indian Cinema’s highest honour – the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2005.
This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...
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Shyam Benegal says "Well you see she was very young as you know she was still in college when she started films with me. The first film that I made was a children's film with her and when we did that she was still very young who had come from Pune. She was very enthusiastic about a lot of things but had no real ambition to be a film actress. One of the things that I remember is that she used to do a lot of very good work. When she was there on film she used to do wonderful work."
Known for his pioneering body of work, Shyam Benegal is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, whose films had the unique quality of being aesthetically superior plus commercially viable. He was the man who successfully redefined ‘alternate cinema’ and helmed films like Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977). Seven-time National Award winner, the veteran director was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. For his phenomenal contribution to the Indian film industry, Benegal was awarded Indian Cinema’s highest honour – the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2005.
This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...
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The ethos and concerns of the New Cinema Movement, through Shyam Benegal's pathbreaking cinematic oeuvre. Awarded at SAARC and screened at New York, Gansu, Edin...
The ethos and concerns of the New Cinema Movement, through Shyam Benegal's pathbreaking cinematic oeuvre. Awarded at SAARC and screened at New York, Gansu, Edinburgh, Madrid, Kochi, Goa, Bhubaneshwar, Auroville and Kabul.
Directed by Iram Ghufran | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Iram Ghufran is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts, including Berlin, Experimenta India, SAARC Film Festival and ISEA, among others. Iram pursued a practice based PhD at the University of Westminster, London.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra).
PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)
PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Cinematographers: Avijit Mukul Kishore, Amit Mahanti, Kashif Siddiqui, Kumal Deshpande, Sagar Shiriskar
Sound Recordist: Christopher Burchell
Editor: Iram Ghufran
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the External Publicity and Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs.
http://www.psbt.org/; https://mea.gov.in/
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at [email protected]
Last updated: May 2020
The ethos and concerns of the New Cinema Movement, through Shyam Benegal's pathbreaking cinematic oeuvre. Awarded at SAARC and screened at New York, Gansu, Edinburgh, Madrid, Kochi, Goa, Bhubaneshwar, Auroville and Kabul.
Directed by Iram Ghufran | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Iram Ghufran is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts, including Berlin, Experimenta India, SAARC Film Festival and ISEA, among others. Iram pursued a practice based PhD at the University of Westminster, London.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra).
PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)
PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Cinematographers: Avijit Mukul Kishore, Amit Mahanti, Kashif Siddiqui, Kumal Deshpande, Sagar Shiriskar
Sound Recordist: Christopher Burchell
Editor: Iram Ghufran
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the External Publicity and Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs.
http://www.psbt.org/; https://mea.gov.in/
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at [email protected]
Last updated: May 2020
Indian films director, Shyam Benegal speaks about his film 'Ankur', he says, "Ankur the story about that is very long one, I won't bore you with the details but...
Indian films director, Shyam Benegal speaks about his film 'Ankur', he says, "Ankur the story about that is very long one, I won't bore you with the details but the most important thing is about it was that I've written a short story when I was in college and as I rewrote the scripts for Ankur for a long period of time and after I was ready with the script of the film then too it took another 12 years before I could actually make the film because nobody was willing to buy an idea like that, I couldn't find producers until I found Blaze there were two people Mohan J. Bijlani and Freni Variava these two people for some reason felt that they could trust me for the subject like this and that how I got to make the film but I had to wait for 12 years before I could find a producer for that.
There is no subject that is not relevant for all time when you take a subject that involves human beings that subject is relevant all the time but the approach, the attitude, the position that I've taken may not always be appropriate that changes with time".
This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...
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Indian films director, Shyam Benegal speaks about his film 'Ankur', he says, "Ankur the story about that is very long one, I won't bore you with the details but the most important thing is about it was that I've written a short story when I was in college and as I rewrote the scripts for Ankur for a long period of time and after I was ready with the script of the film then too it took another 12 years before I could actually make the film because nobody was willing to buy an idea like that, I couldn't find producers until I found Blaze there were two people Mohan J. Bijlani and Freni Variava these two people for some reason felt that they could trust me for the subject like this and that how I got to make the film but I had to wait for 12 years before I could find a producer for that.
There is no subject that is not relevant for all time when you take a subject that involves human beings that subject is relevant all the time but the approach, the attitude, the position that I've taken may not always be appropriate that changes with time".
This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...
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On Mid-day’s 40th anniversary, journalist Mayank Shekhar caught up with legendary filmmakers #ShyamBenegal and #AnuragKashyap to discuss the past 40 years in films. Anurag Kashyap revealed details on his guerilla shooting tactics during #GangsOfWasseypur and #BlackFriday. The director also credited #ShahRukhKhan for bringing the theatre scene alive in Mumbai. From the changing trends in Bollywood cinema to social media trolls, the directors got candid during this chat with mid-day. The Let’s Talk series brings together influencers and game changers across time and fields to compare notes on the Bombay that was, and how it got to where we are today.
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Shyam Benegal says "Well you see she was very young as you know she was still in college when she started films with me. The first film that I made was a children's film with her and when we did that she was still very young who had come from Pune. She was very enthusiastic about a lot of things but had no real ambition to be a film actress. One of the things that I remember is that she used to do a lot of very good work. When she was there on film she used to do wonderful work."
Known for his pioneering body of work, Shyam Benegal is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, whose films had the unique quality of being aesthetically superior plus commercially viable. He was the man who successfully redefined ‘alternate cinema’ and helmed films like Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977). Seven-time National Award winner, the veteran director was honoured with the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. For his phenomenal contribution to the Indian film industry, Benegal was awarded Indian Cinema’s highest honour – the Dadasaheb Phalke Award in 2005.
This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...
Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube www.youtube.com/wildfilmsindia for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience.
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The ethos and concerns of the New Cinema Movement, through Shyam Benegal's pathbreaking cinematic oeuvre. Awarded at SAARC and screened at New York, Gansu, Edinburgh, Madrid, Kochi, Goa, Bhubaneshwar, Auroville and Kabul.
Directed by Iram Ghufran | 2014
Producer and Commissioning Editor: Rajiv Mehrotra
Iram Ghufran is an award winning filmmaker whose work has been shown in several international art and cinematic contexts, including Berlin, Experimenta India, SAARC Film Festival and ISEA, among others. Iram pursued a practice based PhD at the University of Westminster, London.
Rajiv Mehrotra is the founding Managing Trustee and Commissioning Editor of PSBT - his films have won more than 300 awards worldwide, including 32 in 31 years from the President of India. His nine books are available in 50 languages and editions. He serves as the Trustee/ Secretary of the Foundation for Universal Responsibility of HH the Dalai Lama (For more, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rajiv_Mehrotra).
PSBT was a not-for-profit that nurtured and supported the production of independent documentary films by a diversity of filmmakers from across India. Over two decades, it produced close to 700 documentary films, each film averaging two film festival selections and every second film an award. (Read more here: www.psbt.org, https://www.civilsocietyonline.com/cinema/psbt-story-630-films-230-awards-400-filmmakers/, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/09/OnGlobalScreens-Article.pdf, https://www.thehindu.com/features/cinema/in-the-channels-of-trust/article3942019.ece, https://psbt.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/PSBT-Real-Films-on-Real-India.jpg)
PSBT was led by some of India's iconic film personalities - Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Sharmila Tagore, with Fali Nariman and Kiran Karnik. From its inception in 2000, Tulika Srivastava was a key member of the Team, joined in 2005, by Ridhima Mehra.
Credits
Cinematographers: Avijit Mukul Kishore, Amit Mahanti, Kashif Siddiqui, Kumal Deshpande, Sagar Shiriskar
Sound Recordist: Christopher Burchell
Editor: Iram Ghufran
Produced by PSBT, for and in partnership with the External Publicity and Public Diplomacy Division, Ministry of External Affairs.
http://www.psbt.org/; https://mea.gov.in/
For festival and screening queries, please write to us at [email protected]
Last updated: May 2020
Indian films director, Shyam Benegal speaks about his film 'Ankur', he says, "Ankur the story about that is very long one, I won't bore you with the details but the most important thing is about it was that I've written a short story when I was in college and as I rewrote the scripts for Ankur for a long period of time and after I was ready with the script of the film then too it took another 12 years before I could actually make the film because nobody was willing to buy an idea like that, I couldn't find producers until I found Blaze there were two people Mohan J. Bijlani and Freni Variava these two people for some reason felt that they could trust me for the subject like this and that how I got to make the film but I had to wait for 12 years before I could find a producer for that.
There is no subject that is not relevant for all time when you take a subject that involves human beings that subject is relevant all the time but the approach, the attitude, the position that I've taken may not always be appropriate that changes with time".
This footage is part of the broadcast stock footage archive of Wilderness Films India Ltd., the largest collection of HD imagery from South Asia. The collection comprises of 150, 000+ hours of high quality broadcast imagery, mostly shot on 4K, 200 fps slow motion, Full HD, HDCAM 1080i High Definition, Alexa and XDCAM. Write to us for licensing this footage on a broadcast format, for use in your production! We are happy to be commissioned to film for you or else provide you with broadcast crewing and production solutions across South Asia. We pride ourselves in bringing the best of India and South Asia to the world...
Please subscribe to our channel wildfilmsindia on Youtube www.youtube.com/wildfilmsindia for a steady stream of videos from across India. Also, visit and enjoy your journey across India at www.clipahoy.com , India's first video-based social networking experience.
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Shyam Benegal (Hindi:श्याम बेनेगल; born 14 December 1934) is an Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India. He has expressed dislike of the term, preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema.
Shyam Benegal, was born on 14 December 1934 in Trimulgherry,Secunderabad, then a British Cantonment, and now a twin city of the state capital, as Shyam Sunder Benegal. It was here, at age twelve, that he made his first film, on a camera given to him by his photographer father, Sridhar B. Benegal. He received an M.A. in Economics from Nizam College, Osmania University, Hyderabad. There he formed the Hyderabad Film Society.
Bungalow Bungalow By the sea Bungalow In the sea air Climbing rose Time to spare Luxury accommodation traps the sun So we're working every hour that God made So we can fly away Saving it all up for you bungalow Bungalow by the sea Bungalow Silver shoreline In the gorse You can be mine Standing prime position for the town Working for a vision through this life So we can fly away bungalow Bungalow
He described Benegal as a storyteller who seamlessly blended the personal with the social ... Hiptoola reflected on Benegal’s dedication to storytelling, particularly with Manthan, a film funded by farmers who donated `2 each.
The Indian film-maker ShyamBenegal, who has died aged 90, was a pillar of the “parallel cinema” movement, the informal grouping of independently minded ...
ShyamBenegal had the unique ability to narrate a socially relevant story without sounding preachy ... I distinctly remember having watched Shyam Benegal’s Manthan on DD on a Sunday ... Rest in peace Shyam Benegal.
ShyamBenegal has made immense contributions to the film industry and he is credited for setting up parallel cinema in the country, said theatre artistes, writers and members of the civil society on Monday.
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