Mumbai, 23/12: Eminent filmmaker Shyam Benegal, the master of parallel cinema in India, passed away in Mumbai on Monday. He was 90.
His iconic films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975), Mantan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) has made him the pioneer of new-wave Indian cinema. His 53-episode tele-series Bharat ek Khoj, largely based on Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru’s ‘Discovery of India’, tells 5,000 years of history.