Saturday, 31 AUGUST 2024 | PNS | DEHRADUN
In latest news from Doon, to commemorate 50 years of the movie-making career of the legendary Shyam Benegal who is hailed as the pioneer of the film movement called New Wave Indian Cinema., the Doon Library and Research Centre hosted a symposium on this life and cinema. The film researchers and scholars in their addresses threw light on the nuanced, many-splendoured works of the movie director.
Meenu Goyal started the symposium with her address that was focused on the important landmarks in his five- decade –long movie-making career.
A veteran film researcher and historian Manoj Panjani shed light on Benegal’s deep attachment with Uttarakhand, mentioning that his world-acclaimed 1978 movie ‘Junoon’ was based on the Landour-based writer Ruskin Bond’s short story ‘Plight of Pigeons’. Further, he mentioned that Shama Zaidi, the script-writer of about 10 of Benegal’s films, had had her schooling in Mussoorie-based Woodstock School. He also expounded in details on the socio- political perspectives suffusing his films.
Some young members of the library read out the messages sent by a few of the film maker’s close associates and some sang popular songs from his films.
