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HT Brunch Cover Story: Over the top and on point with Shyam Benegal

Hindustant Times | By
Oct 11, 2019 08:46 PM IST

Art cinema vs commercial movies vs OTT: Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, 84, draws distinctions, applauds the deserving and warns against the pitfalls

The last door on the second floor of one of those unremarkable old office buildings in Tardeo opens to a time capsule. An unimpressed Smita Patil, wearing a neatly-pleated sari, stares at me from a huge poster of Bhumika. Next to her are three more posters, for Ankur, Nishant and Manthan – the first definitive Hindi-language films of the Indian New Wave cinema that established Shyam Benegal, the director of these films, as the poster boy of the movement.

Benegal has just watched Article 15 and is pretty impressed by the new filmmakers(Prabhat Shetty)
Benegal has just watched Article 15 and is pretty impressed by the new filmmakers(Prabhat Shetty)
Benegal directed elaborate serials like Yatra and Bharat Ek Khoj (Prabhat Shetty )
Benegal directed elaborate serials like Yatra and Bharat Ek Khoj (Prabhat Shetty )
Benegal does not dismiss mainstream masala movies (Prabhat Shetty )
Benegal does not dismiss mainstream masala movies (Prabhat Shetty )
“Audiences today are selective, which positively impacts the quality of films being made”
At 84, Benegal holds the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke awards (Prabhat Shetty)
At 84, Benegal holds the Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Dadasaheb Phalke awards (Prabhat Shetty)
“It is heartening to see movies like Article 15 being made. It is documentary-like in its approach, which adds a lot of conviction to the story”
“Sometimes I wanted to work with stars... But I realised my films did not need the glamour of a star”
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