• Shyam Benegal obituary

    Shyam Benegal obituary
    Pioneering director with a vital role in India’s ‘parallel cinema’ movement who used his films to explore difficult issuesThe Indian film-maker Shyam Benegal, who has died aged 90, was a pillar of the “parallel cinema” movement, the informal grouping of independently minded and funded creatives whose work stood in stark, socially committed contrast to the song-and-dance escapism of Bollywood.Responding to real events and centred on marginalised characters (often wom

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