{"id":68483,"date":"2024-12-24T21:22:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:22:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/dec\/24\/shyam-benegal-indian-director-parallel-cinema-dies"},"modified":"2024-12-24T21:22:53","modified_gmt":"2024-12-24T12:22:53","slug":"shyam-benegal-influential-director-of-indias-parallel-cinema-dies-aged-90","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68483","title":{"rendered":"Shyam Benegal, influential director of India\u2019s \u2018parallel cinema\u2019, dies aged 90"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The film-maker challenged mainstream Bollywood and pioneered a new wave cinema movement in the 1970s that tackled social issues<\/p>\n<p>Shyam Benegal, a renowned Indian film-maker known for pioneering a new wave cinema movement that tackled social issues in the 1970s, has died aged 90 after suffering from chronic kidney disease.<\/p>\n<p>Benegal passed away on Monday at Mumbai\u2019s Wockhardt hospital and his cremation took place on Tuesday, the Press Trust of India news agency reported, quoting his daughter Piya. \u201cBenegal had been suffering from chronic kidney disease for several years but it had gotten very bad. That\u2019s the reason for his death,\u201d Piya said.<\/p>\n<p> Many paid tribute to the film-maker on social media platform X. \u201cDeeply saddened by the passing of Shyam Benegal, whose storytelling had a profound impact on Indian cinema. His works will continue to be admired by people from different walks of life,\u201d India\u2019s prime minister Narendra Modi tweeted.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2024\/dec\/24\/shyam-benegal-indian-director-parallel-cinema-dies\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The film-maker challenged mainstream Bollywood and pioneered a new wave cinema movement in the 1970s that tackled social issuesShyam Benegal, a renowned Indian film-maker known for pioneering a new wave cinema movement that tackled social issues in the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[71,69,62,61,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","category-film","category-india","category-south-and-central-asia","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68484,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68483\/revisions\/68484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}