Shyam Benegal merged with Panchatatva, cremated with state honours.

Shyam Benegal Last Rites: Filmmaker Shyam Benegal, well-known for his movies in Indian cinema within the Nineteen Seventies and Eighties, was cremated with full state honors in Mumbai on Tuesday and he was given a three-gun salute.

Benegal, well-known for movies like ‘Ankur’, ‘Mandi’, ‘Nishant’ and ‘Junoon’, died in a hospital right here on Monday. He was affected by critical kidney illness. The filmmaker celebrated his ninetieth birthday on 14 December. His final rites passed off at Shivaji Park crematorium in Dadar at round 3 o’clock within the day.

Benegal’s spouse Neera and daughter Pia, alongside with his contemporaries, colleagues and younger era actors and artists had come to pay their final tribute to this nice persona, whose movies had depicted many realities of India.

Celebs bid final farewell

Actors Naseeruddin Shah, Rajit Kapoor, Kulbhushan Kharbanda and Ila Arun, who’ve acted in lots of Benegal’s movies, had been current to bid farewell to the director. Actress Ratna Pathak Shah, her son Vivaan Shah, writer-poet Gulzar, director Hansal Mehta, lyricist-writer Javed Akhtar, actress Divya Dutta, actors Boman Irani, Kunal Kapoor and Anang Desai had been additionally current.

Also current on the event was Shivendra Singh Dungarpur, whose ‘Film Heritage Foundation’ just lately re-screened Benegal’s 1976 movie ‘Manthan’ on the Cannes Film Festival.

Gulzar mentioned this

Gulzar mentioned that the revolution that Benegal delivered to cinema won’t ever occur once more. Gulzar instructed ‘PTI-Bhasha’, “He has not gone, we have bid farewell to him and we have said goodbye to him.” He introduced a revolution and left with that revolution a change in cinema. No one else will be capable to deliver that wave, that revolution once more. We will keep in mind him for a very long time and speak about him for a very long time.

Actor Shreyas Talpade, who performed the lead position in Benegal’s satirical movie ‘Welcome to Sajjanpur’, mentioned that the movie was one of the memorable capturing experiences for him due to Benegal.

Talpade mentioned, “After getting back from the capturing of the movie, I felt fairly modified. I feel we’ll miss his phrases essentially the most. Whenever he spoke, he mesmerized us. This is a large loss.

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