Shyam Benegal

Shyam Benegal is the best known and most prolific contemporary film-maker from India''s arthouse or ''New Cinema'' tradition. This work traces a career with its beginnings in political cinema and a realist aesthetic. Sangeeta Datta demonstrates how the struggles of women and the dispossessed and marginalised in Indian society have found an eloquent expression in films as diverse as Nishant, Bhumik...