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Mujib: Making Of A Nation To The Making Of The Mahatma, Catch The Shyam Benegal Retrospective At NIFFA 2025
Here's a look at the films that have made it to the Shyam Benegal Retrospective Films List at NIFFA 2025
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Shyam Benegal: The Legacy Of A Visionary Who Shaped Indian Parallel Cinema
His final project, the biopic Mujib: The Making of a Nation, was released in 2023, and his influence on Indian cinema remains profound.
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Blog | "There Are No Permanent Villains": What Shyam Benegal Told Me About Bollywood's Bad Men
"The hero was shifting. He had grey characters. Hitherto, the heroes were all unblemished ones. But now the hero was not the totally morally, unblemished hero anymore," Shyam Babu told me.
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Blog | How Shyam Benegal Rediscovered India
India had to be rediscoveredfour decades after its tryst with destiny. No one could have done the job better than Shyam Benegal.
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Filmmaker Shyam Benegal Cremated With Full State Honours. Naseeruddin Shah, Gulzar And Others Attend Last Rites
"He hasn't departed, we have departed from him and seen him off," said Gulzar
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Shyam Benegal, The Man Who Showed Cannes India's Got Talent
Back when Cannes had not yet become a fashion festival, Shyam Benegal took an Indian film to the French Riviera
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Shyam Benegal Funeral: Film Auteur Cremated At Shivaji Park In Mumbai
Film auteur Shyam Benegal was honoured with the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times
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Film Auteur Shyam Benegal's Last Rites This Afternoon In Mumbai
Shabana Azmi, who looked up to the director as her "guru", shared a post on her Instagram stories announcing the time of the cremation
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Naseeruddin Shah Remembers Shyam Benegal: "What I Would Have Become If He Hadn't Had Faith In Me"
"He and Nira (Benegal, Shyam Benegal's wife) were a huge support in my difficult days," said Naseeruddin Shah
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Shyam Benegal, Chronicler Of India's Times And Politics
His lens empathetic, rooted to the Indian reality and always political, Shyam Benegal was the arthouse pioneer who rewrote the rules of cinema with films such as "Ankur", "Nishant" and "Bhumika" that blazed an alternate path to mainstream movies.
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Mujib: Making Of A Nation To The Making Of The Mahatma, Catch The Shyam Benegal Retrospective At NIFFA 2025
Here's a look at the films that have made it to the Shyam Benegal Retrospective Films List at NIFFA 2025
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Shyam Benegal: The Legacy Of A Visionary Who Shaped Indian Parallel Cinema
His final project, the biopic Mujib: The Making of a Nation, was released in 2023, and his influence on Indian cinema remains profound.
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Blog | "There Are No Permanent Villains": What Shyam Benegal Told Me About Bollywood's Bad Men
"The hero was shifting. He had grey characters. Hitherto, the heroes were all unblemished ones. But now the hero was not the totally morally, unblemished hero anymore," Shyam Babu told me.
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Blog | How Shyam Benegal Rediscovered India
India had to be rediscoveredfour decades after its tryst with destiny. No one could have done the job better than Shyam Benegal.
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Filmmaker Shyam Benegal Cremated With Full State Honours. Naseeruddin Shah, Gulzar And Others Attend Last Rites
"He hasn't departed, we have departed from him and seen him off," said Gulzar
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Shyam Benegal, The Man Who Showed Cannes India's Got Talent
Back when Cannes had not yet become a fashion festival, Shyam Benegal took an Indian film to the French Riviera
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Shyam Benegal Funeral: Film Auteur Cremated At Shivaji Park In Mumbai
Film auteur Shyam Benegal was honoured with the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times
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Film Auteur Shyam Benegal's Last Rites This Afternoon In Mumbai
Shabana Azmi, who looked up to the director as her "guru", shared a post on her Instagram stories announcing the time of the cremation
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Naseeruddin Shah Remembers Shyam Benegal: "What I Would Have Become If He Hadn't Had Faith In Me"
"He and Nira (Benegal, Shyam Benegal's wife) were a huge support in my difficult days," said Naseeruddin Shah
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Shyam Benegal, Chronicler Of India's Times And Politics
His lens empathetic, rooted to the Indian reality and always political, Shyam Benegal was the arthouse pioneer who rewrote the rules of cinema with films such as "Ankur", "Nishant" and "Bhumika" that blazed an alternate path to mainstream movies.
