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




“Audiences today are selective, which positively impacts the quality of films being made”

“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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