Ravi Kishan expressed grief over Benegal’s death and said this

At the age of 90, renowned Indian director and screenwriter Shyam Benegal died away on Monday. At Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai, where he was undergoing treatment for chronic renal illness, the filmmaker passed away at 6:38 p.m.

Actor and BJP MP Ravi Kishan lamented Benegal’s death in an interview with ANI. “It is a personal loss for me,” the ‘Laapataa Ladies’ actress said in reference to their collaboration. He showed me Welcome to Sajjanpur as I was attempting to figure out who I was. He taught me a lot… He was remarkable. His passion was art. He was parallel cinema’s Messiah. He never let window collections taint his filmmaking. He was more concerned with the message his film was trying to convey. “I miss him.”

In the 1970s and 1980s, Benegal became a leading figure in the Indian parallel cinema movement thanks to his films Ankur, Nishant, Manthan, and Bhumika. In addition to winning the V. Shantaram Lifetime Achievement Award in 2018, Benegal was recognized seven times with the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi.

Benegal was born on December 14, 1934, in Hyderabad, into a Konkani-speaking Chitrapur Saraswat Brahmin family. He worked closely with performers from FTII and NSD, such as Amrish Puri, Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri, Smita Patil, Shabana Azmi, and Kulbhushan Kharbanda.

His works profoundly addressed pertinent socio-political issues and made a lasting impression on viewers. His most recent endeavor, Mujib: The Making of a Nation (2023), was a co-production between India and Bangladesh that portrayed the life of Bangladesh’s founding father, Sheikh Mujibur Rahman. The biographical film, which was shot extensively in both nations during the COVID-19 epidemic, was another feather in an already impressive hat.

Benegal made substantial contributions to television and documentaries in addition to feature pictures. In Indian television, his classic shows Samvidhaan and Bharat Ek Khoj continue to be standards.

In addition, he was a member of prominent juries, such as the 14th Moscow International Film Festival (1985) and the 35th National Film Awards (1988), and he was the Director of the National Film Development Corporation (NFDC) from 1980 to 1986.