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By PTI MUMBAI: Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal says it is important for a director to be objective while making films about politically relevant events and personalities. Benegal, considered a pioneer of the Indian…

Manju Mishra’s wobbly walk makes it evident that her knees are aching. Her steely determination, however, prevents her from buckling under pressure, financial or emotional. Manju’s ups and downs are effortlessly brought to life by actor…

Express News Service When maverick Malayali filmmaker Kamal KM made his promising debut with the Hindi indie feature, I.D. (2012) - about a woman seeking the identity of a man who blacks out in her apartment - it was…

Actor Shabana Azmi took a trip down memory lane as she shared a throwback picture with late actor Smita Patil and film director Shyam Benegal at the Cannes Film Festival in 1976. Taking to Instagram, Shabana recalled how Shyam asked the…

Industry insiders react as India gets selected as official Country of Honour at the 75th Cannes Film Festival this year. The Indian film industry has a reason to be proud. In what’s a first, India will be the ‘country of honour’ at the…

Veteran director says he never wanted to stop directing films but the “shrinkage” of cinema-going affected his career, talks about directing an Indo-Bangladesh collaboration 12 years after Well Done Abba (2010), filmmaker Shyam Benegal is…

Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal has unveiled the poster of his upcoming biopic feature titled Mujib - The Making of a Nation. It is an India-Bangladesh co-production on the life of Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the father of the nation of…

Actor Pallavi Joshi has produced film such as The Tashkent Files, the upcoming The Kashmir Files and the recently announced The Delhi Files, all films helmed by her husband, filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri. Actor Pallavi Joshi had been a…

Variety is one word which can be used to sum up late actor Surekha Sikri’s body of work, across all mediums. She died on July 16 due to a cardiac arrest, leaving behind acclaimed performances in films such as Zubeidaa (2001), Tamas (1988),…

By PTI MUMBAI: Veteran filmmaker Shyam Benegal, Neena Gupta and Manoj Bajpayee among others paid tributes to three-time National Award-winning actor Surekha Sikri and remembered her as one of the "greatest talents" of…