Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal (born December 14, 1934 in Aliwal , Hyderabad ) is an Indian film director . He is one of India's leading auteur filmmakers and, despite his distinctive personal style, stands in the tradition of both the commercial entertainment film of the Bollywood film industry and that of the artistically ambitious Hindi film.
life and work
Shyam Benegal made his directorial debut in 1962 with Gher Betha Ganga , but only gained great fame with the films Ankur (1974), Nishant (1975) and Manthan (1976), all with actress Shabana Azmi in the lead role. In them he deals with the feudal Indian society in his homeland Andhra Pradesh and in particular with the role of women. This first phase of his work is part of the New Indian Cinema movement , which brought realism to the screen. Characters such as corrupt officials and politicians, exploitative landowners and simple villagers, and women from the lowest social classes recur regularly in Benegal's early films. Shyam Benegal shot with Smita Patil , Naseeruddin Shah , Om Puri , Shashi Kapoor , Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Karisma Kapoor , the first line of Indian actors.
From the 1980s onwards, Benegal turned to more historical subjects and in 1988 filmed The Discovery of India in a 53-part television series under the title Bharat ek khoj Jawaharlal Nehru's Outline of Indian History . He has also made documentaries about Satyajit Ray (1984), Nehru (1983), and Gandhi's early years in South Africa ( The Making of the Mahatma , 1996).
He owns his own production company in Mumbai . For his film adaptation of part of the biography of Subhash Chandra Bose , Benegal also shot in Germany with Udo Schenk as Adolf Hitler .
Awards
The Indian government awarded him the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991 . Benegal received national film awards for several of his films, and in 1979 he received the Filmfare Award for Best Director for Junoon . In 2007 he was awarded the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for 2005.
Movies
- 1974: Charanda's choir
- 1974: tears on hot sand (Ankur)
- 1975: Nishant
- 1976: Manthan
- 1977: The actress (Bhumika)
- 1978: The magic root (Kondura)
- 1979: Junoon
- 1980: Kalyug
- 1982: Arohan
- 1983: Mandi
- 1984: Satyajit Ray (documentary)
- 1985: Trikaal
- 1986: Yatra (TV series)
- 1988: Bharat ek khoj (TV series)
- 1991: Antarnaad
- 1993: Suraj ka satvan ghoda
- 1994: Mammo
- 1996: Sardari Begum
- 1996: The Making of the Mahatma
- 1999: Samar
- 2000: Hari-Bhari
- 2001: Zubeidaa
- 2005: Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero
- 2008: Welcome to Sajjanpur
- 2009: Well Done Abba!
Individual evidence
- ↑ Dadasaheb Phalke Award goes to Shyam Benegal in The Hindu from August 9, 2007
literature
- Meheli Sen: Vernacular Modernities and Fitful Globalities in Shyam Benegal's Cinematic Provinces . In: manycinemas , Vol. 1 (2011), pp. 8–22, ISSN 2192-9181 ( pdf version )
Web links
- Shyam Benegal in the Internet Movie Database (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benegal, Shyam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Indian film director |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 14, 1934 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Aliwal , Hyderabad |