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Dev Benegal
Directing
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Directed movies: 3Directed series: 0All crew credits: 5
TMDB ID: 613697
IMDb ID: nm0070865
Known for: Directing
Place of birth: Delhi, India
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1983 - 2010
Years active: 28
Wikidata: Q3025361
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Biography
Dev Benegal is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter, most known for his debut film English, August (1994), which won the Best Feature Film in English at the 42nd National Film Awards. Benegal grew up in the cinema theatres of Delhi on a diet of American and British imports. His first feature English, August (1994) ignited the next generation of Indian cinema and is acknowledged as a landmark in contemporary Indian cinema. A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, English, August won the Silver Grand Prix and the Gilberto Martinez Solares prize for the Best First Film at the Festival des 3 continents, Nantes and the Special Jury Award at the Torino International Film Festival.
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