Directing

Dev Benegal

Dev Benegal is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, most known for his debut film English, August (1994), which won the Best Feature Film in English at the 42nd National Film Awards. Benegal grew up in the cinema theatres of Delhi on a diet of American and British imports. His first feature English, August (1994) ignited the next generation of Indian cinema and is acknowledged as a landmark in …

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Mandi

MovieComedyDrama

The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.

Road, Movie

Road, Movie · 2010

MovieAdventureComedy

Vishnu has a bleak future before him, he must join his father in the family's oil business and try and boost the sales of the stinking oil in small town India. He sees his chance to escape by offering to transport a ramshackle truck, with a make-shift cinema, to a distant museum that lies across the expansive desert of Kutch. His companions: a chai-wallah chokra, a gypsy girl and a burlesque mechanic.

Split Wide Open

Split Wide Open · 1999

Split Wide Open

MovieDramaCrime

A search for a lost street girl in midst of exposés of modern sexual behaviour in Bombay and a water mafia in the city, this is a real 'split wide open' of the Indian glamour capital.

English, August

English, August · 1994

English, August

MovieComedyDrama

Agasyta, an urban bengali who seamlessly shuttles between Ella Fitzgerald and Rabindra Sangeet, joins the Indian administration service and gets posted in the lap of India's hinterland - a dingy little town called Madna.

New Delhi Times

New Delhi Times · 1986

New Delhi Times

MovieDramaMystery

When a politician is killed, a journalist discovers that a member of parliament had the man assassinated. As his editor digs deeper, the complicity of higher-placed politicians comes to the surface, which leads to riots in one town and an attempt to suppress his story.

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Mandi

MovieComedyDrama

The denizens of a brothel deal with internal drama, as well as pressure from greedy land developers and an anti-sex work politician to leave town.

Assistant Director

Road, Movie

Road, Movie · 2010

MovieAdventureComedy

Vishnu has a bleak future before him, he must join his father in the family's oil business and try and boost the sales of the stinking oil in small town India. He sees his chance to escape by offering to transport a ramshackle truck, with a make-shift cinema, to a distant museum that lies across the expansive desert of Kutch. His companions: a chai-wallah chokra, a gypsy girl and a burlesque mechanic.

Director

Split Wide Open

Split Wide Open · 1999

Split Wide Open

MovieDramaCrime

A search for a lost street girl in midst of exposés of modern sexual behaviour in Bombay and a water mafia in the city, this is a real 'split wide open' of the Indian glamour capital.

Writer

English, August

English, August · 1994

English, August

MovieComedyDrama

Agasyta, an urban bengali who seamlessly shuttles between Ella Fitzgerald and Rabindra Sangeet, joins the Indian administration service and gets posted in the lap of India's hinterland - a dingy little town called Madna.

Director

New Delhi Times

New Delhi Times · 1986

New Delhi Times

MovieDramaMystery

When a politician is killed, a journalist discovers that a member of parliament had the man assassinated. As his editor digs deeper, the complicity of higher-placed politicians comes to the surface, which leads to riots in one town and an attempt to suppress his story.

Sound Designer