Shyam Benegal was a leading Indian director of nonmainstream Hindi cinema and one of its most prolific filmmakers. He was a founder of the movement of realistic and issue-based filmmaking known variously as New Indian cinema, New Wave Indian cinema, or p
Benegal changed the pace and mood of his filmmaking for his fourth feature film, Bhumika. Inspired by the autobiography of the Marathi stage and film actress Hansa Wadkar, he cast Patil in the lead, giving her the best role of her career that was cut short due to her untimely death at ...