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Dev Benegal is a prolific Indian director, born 28 December 1960 in New Delhi, India. Jump to: navigation, search December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


His independent film directorial debut was English, August in 1994 with which he shot to fame. Benegal later directed Split Wide Open in 1999. These two films brought a budding actor, Rahul Bose, to limelight. Jump to: navigation, search Film refers to the celluloid media on which movies are printed Film is a term that encompasses motion pictures as individual projects, as well as the field in general. ... Jump to: navigation, search English, August made in 1994 is Indian film director Dev Benegals first feature film. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1994 was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International year of the Family. ... Jump to: navigation, search Split Wide Open, Dev Benegal‘s second feature film is about the water wars in Bombay and looks at subversive sexuality in modern India and how our notions of morality are challenged when sex and poverty collide. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1999(MCMXCIX) is a common year starting on Friday Anno Domini (or the Current Era), and was designated the International Year of Older Persons by the United Nations. ... Jump to: navigation, search Rahul Bose, famous Indian actor, was born on July 27, 1967 to Rupen and Kumud Bose. ...


Benegal’s films are set in contemporary India - an India most people never see on film. The strength of his films has been their humor, his characters and his unique style combining Indian narrative and western genre. His films are about people caught between many cultures, speaking seventeen languages and still making sense.


Benegal is acknowledged as a pioneer in digital technology; his was the first Indian feature film to adopt digital post production from picture editing on the Avid to sound design & delivery. His passion for technology and movies saw the birth of his pioneering production program 24×7 Making Movies. A digital system is one that uses numbers for input, processing, transmission, storage, or display, rather than a continuous spectrum of values (an analog system) or non-numeric symbols such as letters or icons. ... Avid Technology, Inc, a publicly traded company since 1993, is registered on the NASDAQ under the symbol AVID. The company is involved with digital nonlinear media creation, management and distribution services. ...


Benegal has produced over 60 short feature films in his pioneering production program 24×7 Making Movies, which invites anyone below 24 years to make a short feature film in 24 hours. Variety and the Cannes International Film Festival have acclaimed the films. He has also curated Stories R Us, an Indian Diaspora Seminar and Film Festival for the British Council, which ran to, packed houses in Bombay and across the country with a focus on how narrative and storytelling is shaped and interpreted by the Indian Diaspora. The Palais des Festivals in which the festival takes place. ... The British Council is a partly UK Government-funded cultural relations organisation and a registered charity in the United Kingdom. ...


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Filmography

Feature Films

As Director

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As Screenwriter

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As Film Editor

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Documentaries and Television

  • Shabana! (2003)
Opening film at New York Film Festival’s tribute to legendary Indian film star Shabana Azmi
  • Merchants & Marxists
Stones of the Raj (Channel Four) Television, 1997
  • Field of Shadows
South (Channel Four)Television, 1993
  • Abhivardhan
Building for a New Life (Documentary)1992
  • Kalpavriksha
The Tree of Life(Documentary) 1988
  • Kanakambaram
Cloth of Gold (Documentary) 1987
  • Anantarupam
The Infinite Forms (Documentary) 1987

Shabana Azmi Shabana Azmi (born 18 September 1950 at New Delhi, India) is the daughter of famous Urdu poet Kaify Azmi. ... Channel 4 is a television broadcaster in the United Kingdom (see British television). ... Jump to: navigation, search Documentary film is a broad category of cinematic expression united by the intent to remain factual or non-fictional. ...

Awards and Citations

Split Wide Open

  • Grand Prix Award
    • Focus op het Zuiden, Turnout International Film Festival, Belgium 2000
  • Official Selection

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English, August

  • Silver Montgolfiere (Silver Grand Prix)
    • 16th Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes France, 1994
  • Special Jury Award
    • at the 12th Torino International Film Festival, Italy, 1994
  • Best Feature Film (English)
    • National Film Awards, India 1995
  • Official Selection
    • Official Selection Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival, 1995
    • Official Selection Hawaii International Film Festival, 1995
    • Official Selection Stockholm International Film Festival, 1995
    • Official Selection Vancouver Film Festival, 1995
    • Official Selection Films from the South, Copenhagen 1995
    • Official Selection Tokyo International Film Festival 1995
    • Official Selection Alexandria International Film Festival 1995
    • Official Selection International Istanbul International Film Festival 1995
    • Official Competition Cinema Novo Belgium 1995
    • Official Selection San Francisco Asian American Film Festival 1995
    • Official Selection 26th Indian International Film Festival 1995
    • Official Competition 16th Festival des 3 Continents, Nantes 1994
    • Official Competition 12th Torino International Film Festival, Italy 1994
    • Official Competition 43rd Mannheim-Heidelberg International Film Festival 1994
    • Closing Film ‘India Now’ 19th Toronto International Film Festival

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Life

Born to Som Benegal and Suman Benegal, Dev Benegal (born December 28, 1960) grew up in the cinema theatres of New Delhi on a diet of American and British imports. In 1979, he left Delhi for Mumbai (then Bombay), to pursue his interest in making movies. Jump to: navigation, search December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ... Jump to: navigation, search 1960 was a leap year starting on Friday (link will take you to calendar). ... Jump to: navigation, search This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ...


His interests are varied, including listening to all kinds of music, calligraphy, science fiction, drawing/sketching, Apple Computers and Mac OS X, writing, both serious and humorous, photography, fine dining, and the latest gadgets, gizmos, software patches and plug-ins. Jump to: navigation, search Calligraphy in a Latin Bible of AD 1407 on display in Malmesbury Abbey, Wiltshire, England. ... Science fiction is a form of speculative fiction principally dealing with the impact of imagined science and technology, or both, upon society and persons as individuals. ... Apple Computer, Inc. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mac OS X is an operating system designed and developed by Apple Computer for use on their current line of Macintosh computers. ...


Dev has one son, Ishaan P Benegal.


Education

Dev Benegal studied Cinematography for two years at the University of New York. Jump to: navigation, search A film reel unwinding Although literally it means writing the movement, the term cinematography is generally understood as the art and process of recording visual images for the cinema (with a camera) and later developing those images in a laboratory. ... Jump to: navigation, search State nickname: The Empire State Other U.S. States Capital Albany Largest city New York City Governor George Pataki (R) Senators Charles Schumer (D) Hillary Rodham Clinton (D) Official languages None (English is de facto) Area 141,205 km² or 54,556 square miles (27th)  - Land...


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