Shyam Benegal

Shyam Benegal was born on 14 December 1934 in Tirumalagiri, near Hyderabad, into a Konkani-speaking family; his father was a photographer, and Guru Dutt was his cousin. He took a master's degree in economics at Osmania University and founded the Hyderabad film society. In 1959 he joined the Lintas agency and made more than nine hundred advertising films and documentaries. He taught at the Film Institute in Pune, which he chaired twice, sat in the Rajya Sabha and died in Bombay on 23 December 2024.

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• CinemaThe SeedlingअंकुरShyam Benegal · 1974Cinema