Reality Check - The Master: Shyam Benegal

Name: Reality Check - The Master: Shyam Benegal
Start: 2025-03-26T18:30:00+05:30
Location: Little Theatre: NCPA

Schedule

Wed, 26 Mar, 2025 at 06:30 pm

UTC+05:30

Location

Little Theatre: NCPA | Mumbai, MH

Documentary Film Screening The Reality Check film series promotes and encourages documentary filmmakers in India whose work reflects life and culture in the country today in a thoughtful blend of creativity and integrity. A feature-length documentary about one of India’s foremost pathbreaking filmmakers who, as a truant schoolboy, ran off to the cinema to watch Hollywood and Soviet cinema. The film charts his emergence from advertising to become a leading filmmaker of the Indian New Wave of the 1970s with hard-edged classics like Ankur, Nishant, Manthan and Bhumika through to a trilogy on Muslim women: Mammo, Sardari Begum and Zubeidaa and the hit comedy, Welcome to Sajjanpur, TV series, as well as his documentary on Satyajit Ray. The film avoids the usual platitudes while exploring the man and filmmaker with a rich mix of insights by many celebrated film professionals—actors, technicians and commentators— including Shabana Azmi, Javed Akhtar, Karisma Kapoor, Manoj Bajpayee, Om Puri, Surekha Sikri, Govind Nihalani and eminent artist Sudhir Patwardhan. The voice-over has been provided by Naseeruddin Shah. The documentary, written and directed by film critic Khalid Mohamed, is designed as a personal homage to the auteur director, for whom he wrote the stories and screenplays of the Muslim women trilogy. Director, Producer & Script: Khalid Mohamed DOP & Assistant Director: Karan Desai Narrator: Naseeruddin Shah Sound Design: Baylon Fonseca Editors: Udaiveer Singh Rathore, Meghna Aschit, Pravin Angre The film screening will be followed by a discussion. An NCPA Presentation in collaboration with Cinema Collective Supported by Bajaj Beyond Admission on a first-come-first-served basis.