Dev Benegal
Directing
Dev Benegal is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, most known for his debut film English, August (1994), which won the Best Feature Film in English at the 42nd National Film Awards.
Benegal grew up in the cinema theatres of Delhi on a diet of American and British imports.
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His first feature English, August (1994) ignited the next generation of Indian cinema and is acknowledged as a landmark in contemporary Indian cinema. A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, English, August won the Silver Grand Prix and the Gilberto Martinez Solares prize for the Best First Film at the Festival des 3 continents, Nantes and the Special Jury Award at the Torino International Film Festival.
Known for
Behind the camera6
- 2010Road, Movie Director, Producer, Screenplay, Story
- 1999Split Wide Open Writer, Director
- 1994English, August Director, Screenplay
- 1986New Delhi Times Sound Designer
- 1983Mandi Assistant Director
- TBAEverything Is Not OK Director, Producer, Writer