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Shyam Benegal - Filmmaker and Philosopher (Hardcover)
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Shyam Benegal - Filmmaker and Philosopher (Hardcover)
Series: Philosophical Filmmakers
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For over forty years, Shyam Benegal has been one the leading forces
in Indian cinema. Informed by a rich political and philosophical
sensibility and a mastery of the art and craft of filmmaking,
Benegal is both of, and not of, Bollywood. As a philosophical
filmmaker Benegal brings to life the existential crisis of the
downtrodden Indian, the 'subaltern' if you will-the serf, the
peasant, the woman-and imposes a distinctive philosophical vision
on his cinematic reworkings of literary products. To understand
Benegal's cinema is to understand, through his lens, modern India's
continued process of political and social becoming. Focusing on the
philosophical depth of Benegal's oueuvre, Samir Chopra identifies
three key aspects of his work: - A trio of films which signalled to
middle-class India that a revolt was brewing in India's hinterlands
- Two sets of movies which make powerful feminist statements and
bring viewers into the lives of Indian women by showcasing strong,
interesting female characters - Benegal the master storyteller, who
possessed of a unique fabulist style in a reboot of the Indian epic
Mahabharata, a Ruskin Bond novel set during the Indian Mutiny of
1857, and a Rashomon-like retelling of an Indian experimental
novel, where three perspectives converge to form a unified whole
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