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December 23, 2024
Siddharth Varadarajan
As we go to press comes the news that Shyam Benegal—one of India’s most celebrated film directors—has died, aged 90. After making a number of notable documentaries, he burst on to the movie scene in the mid-1970s with Ankur, Nishant, Manthan and Bhumika— four films in four years that each won the coveted National Film Award. A key figure in India’s ‘parallel’ or ‘new wave’ cinema movement, his films dealt with various contemporary and historical themes but what was common to virtually all of
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