Highest rated movie: Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005)
Lowest rated movie: Welcome to Sajjanpur (2008)
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Looking for reviews of films directed by Shyam Benegal? Cinafilm has a total of 108 reviews across 10 movies directed by Shyam Benegal.
Movies from this director have generally received positive reviews and hold an average rating of 72%.
Bose: The Forgotten Hero is Shyam Benegal's highest rated movie, with a score of 81% based on 5 reviews.
The lowest rated film from Shyam Benegal is Welcome to Sajjanpur, with a score of 56% based on 42 reviews.
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934, in Trimulgherry, near Secunderabad is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur (1973), Nishant (1975) Manthan (1976) and Bhumika (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema.
He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. On 8 August 2007, he was awarded the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2005. He has won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times.
Shyam Benegal has directed films starring Amrish Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajit Kapoor and Rajeshwari Sachdev.
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