The Indian village has disappeared from the map of cinema
By confluence | December 15th, 2009 | Category: The Arts | No Comments »Shyam Benegal
Lalit Mohan Joshi talks to the maestro
Shyam Benegal’s leftist trilogy - Ankur (The Seedling, 1974), Nishant (Night’s End, 1975) and Manthan (The Churning, 1976) set the pace of the 1970s New Wave in Hindi Cinema. Although based on independent stories, these three films were thematically linked for voicing concern for India’s rural poor. Ankur [...]
