FILM DIRECTOR

Shyam Benegal

1934 - 2024

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Shyam Benegal (14 December 1934 – 23 December 2024) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. He has received several accolades, including eighteen National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award. In 2005, he was honoured with the Dadasaheb Phalke Award, India's highest award in the field of cinema. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in 32 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 30 in 2024). Shyam Benegal is the 1,024th most popular film director (up from 1,263rd in 2024), the 646th most popular biography from India (up from 718th in 2019) and the 8th most popular Indian Film Director.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Shyam Benegal ranks 1,024 out of 2,041. Before him are Vittorio De Seta, Frédéric Rossif, Michel Boisrond, Danis Tanović, Álex de la Iglesia, and Melville Shavelson. After him are Jia Zhangke, Spike Jonze, Christopher McQuarrie, Marleen Gorris, Michael Chapman, and Deeyah Khan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Shyam Benegal ranks 361. Before him are Joan Hackett, Marek Hłasko, Takayuki Kubota, Peter McParland, Yuri Vizbor, and Héctor De Bourgoing. After him are Zbigniew Pietrzykowski, Kurt Armbruster, Shirley Douglas, Shirley Horn, Martín Pando, and Barry Humphries. Among people deceased in 2024, Shyam Benegal ranks 351. Before him are Iryna Farion, Takayuki Kubota, Karin Baal, E. Allen Emerson, Artur Chilingarov, and Tommy Banks. After him are Ștefan Birtalan, Andrew Davis, Liang Guanglie, Earl Holliman, Serge Vohor, and Helen Fisher.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shyam Benegal ranks 646 out of 1,861. Before him are Ram Charan (1985), Arbaaz Khan (1967), Salima Sultan Begum (1539), Derek Prince (1915), Kajal Aggarwal (1985), and Kamal Ranadive (1917). After him are V. N. Janaki (1923), Sadashiv Amrapurkar (1950), Pratibha Ray (1944), Mamoni Raisom Goswami (1942), Suniti Kumar Chatterji (1890), and K. D. Jadhav (1926).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Shyam Benegal ranks 8. Before him are Mahesh Bhatt (1948), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Michael Radford (1946), Lindsay Anderson (1923), B. R. Chopra (1914), and Dadasaheb Phalke (1870). After him are Dara Singh (1928), Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), S. Shankar (1963), Guru Dutt (1925), Ismail Merchant (1936), and Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941).

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