FILM DIRECTOR

Shyam Benegal

1934 - 2024

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Shyam Benegal (14 December 1934 – 23 December 2024) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. He has received several accolades, including eighteen National Film Awards, a Filmfare Award and a Nandi Award. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Shyam Benegal has received more than 1,612,846 page views. His biography is available in 30 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 28 in 2019). Shyam Benegal is the 1,261st most popular film director (up from 1,377th in 2019), the 718th most popular biography from India (up from 728th in 2019) and the 10th most popular Indian Film Director.

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  • 1.6M

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  • 53.00

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 30

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.66

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, Shyam Benegal ranks 1,261 out of 2,041. Before him are Simon West, Aaron Norris, Šarūnas Bartas, Terry George, Marion Hänsel, and Yōjirō Takita. After him are Lewis Teague, Pablo Larraín, Jack Sholder, Jaume Balagueró, Jon Amiel, and Bennett Miller.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1934, Shyam Benegal ranks 429. Before him are Corey Allen, Mr. Fuji, Victor Argo, Fernando Cardenal, James Drury, and Kurt Armbruster. After him are Johnny Burnette, Orrin Hatch, Chris Bonington, Horacio Accavallo, Stanley Turrentine, and Jamie Farr. Among people deceased in 2024, Shyam Benegal ranks 348. Before him are Artur Chilingarov, Thomas E. Kurtz, Béla Károlyi, Robert Pickton, Klaus Wolfermann, and Luciano Sušanj. After him are Martin Mull, Alan Rees, Pascal Lainé, Robert H. Dennard, S. M. Krishna, and Peter Armbruster.

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In India

Among people born in India, Shyam Benegal ranks 718 out of 1,861. Before him are Ramdev (1965), Ravindra Prabhat (1969), Danny Denzongpa (1948), M. K. Stalin (1953), Sunil Chhetri (1984), and S. R. Srinivasa Varadhan (1940). After him are P. T. Usha (1964), Feroz Khan (1939), Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale (1947), Saeed Jaffrey (1929), Nirmala Sitharaman (1959), and Peter Sarstedt (1941).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In India

Among film directors born in India, Shyam Benegal ranks 10. Before him are Michael Radford (1946), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Lindsay Anderson (1923), Dara Singh (1928), Guru Dutt (1925), and Ardeshir Irani (1886). After him are Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914), Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Tarsem Singh (1961), Ismail Merchant (1936), V. Shantaram (1901), and Subhash Ghai (1945).

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