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  • Shyam Benegal: Filmmaker and Philosopher

    Shyam Benegal by Chopra, Samir;

    Filmmaker and Philosopher

    Series: Philosophical Filmmakers;

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    Product details:

    • Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
    • Date of Publication 14 January 2021
    • Number of Volumes Paperback

    • ISBN 9781350063556
    • Binding Paperback
    • No. of pages208 pages
    • Size 214x138x18 mm
    • Weight 260 g
    • Language English
    • 171

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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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    Table of Contents:

    Prelims
    Preface

    1. Introduction
    2. Ankur, Nishant, Manthan: The Uprising Trilogy
    3. An Indian Feminist -I : Bhumika, Mandi
    4. An Indian Feminist - II: The Muslim Women Trilogy - Mammo, Zubeidaa, Sardari Begum
    5. The Fabulist - Junoon, Suraj ka Satwan Ghoda, Kondura, Kalyug

    Bibliography
    Index

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