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Shyam Benegal: I marvelled at the talent
Updated On: 21 March, 2022 07:09 AM IST | Mumbai | Mohar Basu
Returning to the filmmaker’s chair with a movie on the founding father of Bangladesh, Shyam Benegal on roping in actors from the neighbouring nation
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Shyam Benegal
We seek to decipher when a Shyam Benegal-movie last arrived in cinema halls. Wikipedia says it has been 12 years, while the man himself says it was “sometime in the last decade”. Given his long break from filmmaking, there’s reason to celebrate his return to direction with the Sheikh Mujibur Rahman biopic, Mujib — The Making of a Nation.
In a chat with mid-day, Benegal describes his film on the founding father of Bangladesh as a story of resilience. “It is the story of a man’s vision for a country, and how the nation was thus birthed. A man who created a nation [must have had] a fiery spirit, with insurmountable determination. He steadfastly stayed by his ideals, which is why there is something for everybody to learn, even in this day and age,” says the filmmaker.
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