Big B remembered veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal and said this

Filmmaker Shyam Benegal, who died on Monday at the age of 90, had a tonne of tributes.

While receiving treatment for chronic renal disease at Wockhardt Hospital in Mumbai, Benegal passed away at 6:38 p.m.

On Tuesday, Big B expressed his sorrow on his X account, writing, “T 5233-We have lost another pillar of the Film Industry today. … Shyam Benegal dies. Condolences and prayers.

Shabana Azmi, an actress who worked closely with Benegal on a number of movies, posted information about the burial on her Instagram Story.

The last ceremonies will be held at the Shivaji Park Electric Crematorium in Dadar, Mumbai, on Tuesday at 2:00 pm.

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Ajay Devgn, Karisma Kapoor, and Nafisa Ali were among the other celebrities who hailed Benegal as a legend and acknowledged his enormous contributions to Indian film.

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.