Director Shyam Benegal, who created a new idiom for Hindi cinema and was one of the leading figures of the parallel cinema movement, died in Mumbai on Monday evening from kidney-related complications, his daughter Pia Benegal told news agency PTI. Benegal’s strongest cinematic influence came not from his cousin Guru Dutt’s emotion-saturated movies but from Satyajit Ray’s cinema of neo-realism. …
