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Dev Benegal is a Director, Scriptwriter, Producer, Assistant Director, Editor and Sound Designer Indian born on 28 december 1960 at New Delhi (Inde)
Dev Benegal (Konkani: देव बॅनॅगल) (born 28 December 1960) is an Indian director and screenwriter, most known for his debut film English, August (1994), which won the 1995 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English.
He is the nephew of award-winning director Shyam Benegal.
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Dev Benegal
Dev Benegal (Konkani: देव बॅनॅगल) (born 28 December 1960) is an Indian director and screenwriter, most known for his debut film English, August (1994), which won the 1995 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English.
He is the nephew of award-winning director Shyam Benegal.
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Filmography of Dev Benegal (6 films)
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Road, Movie (2010)
, 1h35Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Virendra Saxena, Yashpal Sharma
Rating67%
Vishnu (Abhay Deol), a restless young man, itches to escape his father's faltering hair oil business.
Split Wide Open (1999)
, 1h47Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Rahul Bose, Laila Rouass, Ayesha Dharker, Shivaji Satam, Iravati Harshe Mayadev, Aamir Bashir
Rating64%
English, August (1994)
, 1h58Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rahul Bose, Tanvi Azmi, Salim Shah, Mita Vashisht, Shivaji Satam, Yogendra Tiku
Rating74%
Agastya Sen (Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. A lover of poetry, he listens to Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, rock and jazz and reads Marcus Aurelius. He is also an Indian Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influential and powerful cadre of civil servants in India. He is sent off for a year's training to Madna, the hottest town in the country. Culture shock and a language barrier in his own country follows (August's mother tongue is Bengali). He feels like a foreigner, but must survive.
Scriptwriter
Road, Movie (2010)
, 1h35Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Virendra Saxena, Yashpal Sharma
Roles Story
Rating67%
Vishnu (Abhay Deol), a restless young man, itches to escape his father's faltering hair oil business.
Split Wide Open (1999)
, 1h47Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Crime
Actors Rahul Bose, Laila Rouass, Ayesha Dharker, Shivaji Satam, Iravati Harshe Mayadev, Aamir Bashir
Roles Writer
Rating64%
English, August (1994)
, 1h58Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rahul Bose, Tanvi Azmi, Salim Shah, Mita Vashisht, Shivaji Satam, Yogendra Tiku
Rating74%
Agastya Sen (Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. A lover of poetry, he listens to Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, rock and jazz and reads Marcus Aurelius. He is also an Indian Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influential and powerful cadre of civil servants in India. He is sent off for a year's training to Madna, the hottest town in the country. Culture shock and a language barrier in his own country follows (August's mother tongue is Bengali). He feels like a foreigner, but must survive.
Producer
Road, Movie (2010)
, 1h35Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Adventure, Crime, Romance
Themes Transport films, Road movies
Actors Abhay Deol, Tannishtha Chatterjee, Satish Kaushik, Virendra Saxena, Yashpal Sharma
Roles Producer
Rating67%
Vishnu (Abhay Deol), a restless young man, itches to escape his father's faltering hair oil business.
Director
Mandi (1983)
, 2h47Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Films about prostitution
Actors Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Smita Patil, Neena Gupta, Amrish Puri
Roles Assistant Director
Rating74%
For years an aging Rukmini Bai (Shabana Azmi) has been the Madame of a brothel in Hyderabad, India. One day she gets the news that she now has a new landlord in Mr. Gupta (Kulbhushan Kharbanda), whose daughter is to marry the mayor's son Sushil, shortly. Led by City Councillor, Shantidevi, the people in this town demand that this brothel be moved elsewhere, preferably on the outskirts of the town, and they do succeed, compelling Rukmini to move with her women to their new location, which happens to be near the Dargah of Baba Karak Shah. Ironically, this attracts a lot of people, and the patronage to Rukmini's bordello increases. Then complications set in when Sushil refuses to marry his father's choice, childlike Malti, and wants to marry Zeenat (Smita Patil) - a prostitute, not entirely by choice and seeking for a better existence, who resides with Rukmini.
Editor
English, August (1994)
, 1h58Directed by Dev Benegal
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Rahul Bose, Tanvi Azmi, Salim Shah, Mita Vashisht, Shivaji Satam, Yogendra Tiku
Rating74%
Agastya Sen (Rahul Bose), nicknamed "English, August", speaks and thinks in English. A lover of poetry, he listens to Bob Dylan, Miles Davis, rock and jazz and reads Marcus Aurelius. He is also an Indian Administrative Service Officer, a member of the most influential and powerful cadre of civil servants in India. He is sent off for a year's training to Madna, the hottest town in the country. Culture shock and a language barrier in his own country follows (August's mother tongue is Bengali). He feels like a foreigner, but must survive.
Sound
New Delhi Times (1986)
, 2h3Directed by Romesh Sharma
Genres Drama
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists, Political films
Actors Shashi Kapoor, Sharmila Tagore, Om Puri, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, A. K. Hangal, Manohar Singh
Roles Sound Designer
Rating77%
The film tells the story of an honest journalist Vikas Pande (Shashi Kapoor) from Ghazipur in eastern Uttar Pradesh who moves to Delhi to run a newspaper, and soon uncovers a political assassination, and in the process, falls prey to a corrupt system and the nexus between politicians and media barons.