title: Welcome to Sajjanpur
Kondura
Katha Sagar
25th Filmfare Awards
Victor Banerjee
Nitish Roy
Vasant Dev
Ankur (film)
Joseph M. Newman
Shyam Benegal
sentences: Welcome to Sajjanpur is a 2008 Indian Hindi comedy film directed by Shyam Benegal and starring Shreyas Talpade and Amrita Rao in the lead roles.
 The film is by noted Parallel cinema director, Shyam Benegal, marking his return to comedy after filming "Charandas Chor" (1975).
 Even though Benegal is responsible for other films in the parallel cinema genre, this film was one of his mainstream Bollywood films.
 It was a remake of the 1977 film "Palkon Ki Chhaon Mein".
Kondura / Anugraham is a 1978 Indian bilingual film simultaneously directed by Shyam Benegal in Hindi and Telugu.
 The film is based on the novel by Marathi writer, Chintamani T. Khanolkar [चिं.
 त्र्यं.
 खानोलकर] by the same name, the screen adaptation was made by Shyam Benegal and Girish Karnad.
 The majority of the cast was common to both films and included Ananth Nag, Vanisri, Amrish Puri, Shekhar Chatterjee (Hindi version only), Rao Gopal Rao (Telugu version only) and Satyadev Dubey.
 The film was one of the Indian entries at the 4th Hong Kong International Film Festival.
Katha Sagar (translation:""A Sea of Stories"") was a popular Indian television series that aired on DD National in 1986.
 The series was directed by Shyam Benegal along with many renowned directors.
 The series featured a collection of stories by world famous short story writers such as Guy De Maupassant, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, Anton Chekov etc.
The 25th Filmfare Awards were held in 1978.
 Shyam Benegal's "Bhumika" was named the Best Film of the year, starting a run where 3 films by Shyam Benegal won the Best Film award in 5 years.
 Amitabh Bachchan won his first Best Actor award for his role in Manmohan Desai's Amar Akbar Anthony.
Victor Banerjee (born Partho Sarathi Banerjee, 15 October 1946) is an Indian actor who appears in English, Hindi, Bengali and Assamese language films.
 He has worked for directors including Roman Polanski, James Ivory, Sir David Lean, Jerry London, Ronald Neame, Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Shyam Benegal, Montazur Rahman Akbar and Ram Gopal Varma.
Nitish Roy is an Indian film art director, production designer, and costume designer in Hindi cinema and a Bengali Film Director, who is also known for his work with art cinema directors, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and Govind Nihlani, Hindi mainstream cinema, directors like Rajkumar Santoshi, as well as international directors like Mira Nair and Gurinder Chadha.
Vasant Deo(1929-25 Jan.1996) is an Indian writer, lyricist and screenwriter and a Hindi academic at Parle College in Mumbai.
 He worked in Hindi parallel cinema through the 1980s, working with directors like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani and Mahesh Bhatt.
 He is best known for "Saanjh Dhale Gagan Tale" sung by Suresh Wadkar, and "Mann Kyun Behka", a Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle duet in "Utsav" (1984) directed by Girish Karnad.
 He wrote plays and poetry in Marathi, and Marathi to Hindi translator.
Ankur (Hindi: अंकुर, Urdu: اَنکُر, translation: "The Seedling") is an Indian colour film of 1974.
 It was the first feature film directed by Shyam Benegal and the debut of Indian actors Ananth Nag and Shabana Azmi.
 Ananth Nag was introduced in Ankur by Shyam Benegal after his higher education in Mumbai.
 The film was shot in Hyderabad.
 Though Shabana Azmi had acted in other films as well, "Ankur" was her first release.
Shabana Azmi interview </ref>
Joseph M. Newman (August 17, 1909 – January 23, 2006) was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film "This Island Earth".
 His credits include episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour".
Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian director and screenwriter.
 With his first four feature films "Ankur" (1973), "Nishant" (1975), "Manthan" (1976) and "" (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India.
 He has expressed dislike of the term, preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema.
 Benegal was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991.
 On 8 August 2007, Benegal was awarded the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2005.
 He has won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times.

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 Kondura / Anugraham is a 1978 Indian bilingual film simultaneously directed by Shyam Benegal in Hindi and Telugu.
 The film is based on the novel by Marathi writer, Chintamani T. Khanolkar [चिं.
 त्र्यं.
 खानोलकर] by the same name, the screen adaptation was made by Shyam Benegal and Girish Karnad.
 The majority of the cast was common to both films and included Ananth Nag, Vanisri, Amrish Puri, Shekhar Chatterjee (Hindi version only), Rao Gopal Rao (Telugu version only) and Satyadev Dubey.
 The film was one of the Indian entries at the 4th Hong Kong International Film Festival. 

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 Katha Sagar (translation:""A Sea of Stories"") was a popular Indian television series that aired on DD National in 1986.
 The series was directed by Shyam Benegal along with many renowned directors.
 The series featured a collection of stories by world famous short story writers such as Guy De Maupassant, Rabindranath Tagore, Leo Tolstoy, O. Henry, Anton Chekov etc. 

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 The 25th Filmfare Awards were held in 1978.
 Shyam Benegal's "Bhumika" was named the Best Film of the year, starting a run where 3 films by Shyam Benegal won the Best Film award in 5 years.
 Amitabh Bachchan won his first Best Actor award for his role in Manmohan Desai's Amar Akbar Anthony. 

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 Nitish Roy is an Indian film art director, production designer, and costume designer in Hindi cinema and a Bengali Film Director, who is also known for his work with art cinema directors, Shyam Benegal, Mrinal Sen and Govind Nihlani, Hindi mainstream cinema, directors like Rajkumar Santoshi, as well as international directors like Mira Nair and Gurinder Chadha. 

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 Vasant Deo(1929-25 Jan.1996) is an Indian writer, lyricist and screenwriter and a Hindi academic at Parle College in Mumbai.
 He worked in Hindi parallel cinema through the 1980s, working with directors like Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani and Mahesh Bhatt.
 He is best known for "Saanjh Dhale Gagan Tale" sung by Suresh Wadkar, and "Mann Kyun Behka", a Lata Mangeshkar and Asha Bhosle duet in "Utsav" (1984) directed by Girish Karnad.
 He wrote plays and poetry in Marathi, and Marathi to Hindi translator. 

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 Ankur (Hindi: अंकुर, Urdu: اَنکُر, translation: "The Seedling") is an Indian colour film of 1974.
 It was the first feature film directed by Shyam Benegal and the debut of Indian actors Ananth Nag and Shabana Azmi.
 Ananth Nag was introduced in Ankur by Shyam Benegal after his higher education in Mumbai.
 The film was shot in Hyderabad.
 Though Shabana Azmi had acted in other films as well, "Ankur" was her first release.
Shabana Azmi interview </ref> 

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 Joseph M. Newman (August 17, 1909 – January 23, 2006) was an American film director most famous for his 1955 film "This Island Earth".
 His credits include episodes of "The Twilight Zone" and "The Alfred Hitchcock Hour". 

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 Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian director and screenwriter.
 With his first four feature films "Ankur" (1973), "Nishant" (1975), "Manthan" (1976) and "" (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India.
 He has expressed dislike of the term, preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema.
 Benegal was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991.
 On 8 August 2007, Benegal was awarded the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2005.
 He has won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times. 

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Answer: yes