Shabana Azmi, Shyam Benegal

In an industry where women were seldom elevated from the status of arm candies, Shyam Benegal painted his women with myriad ...
That Shyam Benegal was one of the biggest names in Indian parallel cinema is hardly new information! The legend is no longer ...
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, a filmmaker who was ahead of his time, passed away at 90. His women-centric films like ‘Ankur’, ‘Bhoomika’, ...
With his passing, Indian cinema has lost its most undaunted voice, a voice of unsettling truths, a window to history, a ...
His films include Bhumika, Junoon, Mandi, Suraj Ka Satvaan Ghoda, Mammo and Sardari Begum, which are considered classics in ...