Shyam Benegal Education: Famous film director Shyam Benegal, who was ill for a long time, passed away today. Shyam Benegal was 90 years old. He was counted among the top film directors of Bollywood. But do you know where he did his education? Let us know…
Shyam Benegal studied at Nizam College of Osmania University in Hyderabad. He completed his post graduation in Economics from this college. It was from here that he started a film society.
In 1959, he started working as a copy-writer at Lintas Advertising, a Mumbai-based advertising agency. Here he gradually continued his journey to the post of Creative Head. In the year 1962, he made his first documentary film “Gher Baitha Ganga” (Ganga at the door) in Gujarati. His dream of making his first feature film remained unfulfilled for the next decade, as he was working on its script.
Deep connection with FTII
Between 1966 and 1973, Benegal taught at the Film and Television Institute of India (FTII) in Pune and served as the President of the institute twice, in 1980–83 and 1989–92. By this time he had started making documentary films.
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