Phalke Award 2005

Filmmaker Shyam Benegal has won the prestigious Dada Saheb Phalke award for 2005.

Benegal, 72, has directed well-reviewed films like Manthan, Junoon and Ankur. His last film was Bose: The Forgotten Hero, a film on the freedom fighter, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose.

He is considered as one of the pioneers of parallel cinema in India in the 1970s and 1980s.

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