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Indian Film Movement

Hindi Parallel Cinema & New Wave

Era not listed

A curated collection tracing Hindi cinema's art-house and independent tradition — from the founding parallel cinema movement of the 1970s-80s through its festival-circuit descendants today.

Era not listed / Hindi

Historical Context

A curated collection tracing Hindi cinema's art-house and independent tradition — from the founding parallel cinema movement of the 1970s-80s through its festival-circuit descendants today.

Films in This Movement

Chronological order

Key Directors

Guru Dutt

Production

Guru Dutt

Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone (9 July 1925 – 10 October 1964), better known as Guru Dutt, was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He made 1950s and 1960s classics such as Pyaasa, Kaagaz Ke Phool, Sahib Bibi Aur Ghulam and Chaudhvin Ka Chand. In particular, Pyaasa and Kaagaz Ke Phool are now included among the greatest films of all time, both by Time magazine's "All-TIME" 100 best movies and by the Sight & Sound critics' and directors' poll, where Dutt himself is included among the greatest film directors of all time. Description above from the Wikipedia article Guru Dutt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Shyam Benegal

Director

Shyam Benegal

Govind Nihalani

Camera

Govind Nihalani

Govind Nihalani is an Indian film director, cinematographer, screenwriter and producer, known for his works in Hindi cinema. He has been the recipient of six National Film Awards, and five Bollywood Filmfare Awards. In 1996, his script for Drohkaal was adapted by Kamal Hassan for its Tamil remake, Kuruthipunal, which subsequently became India's official entry for the 68th Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film category.

Saeed Akhtar Mirza

Writer

Saeed Akhtar Mirza

Saeed Akhtar Mirza (born 30 June 1943) is an Indian screenwriter and director in Hindi films and television. He is the maker of notable parallel films such as Mohan Joshi Hazir Ho! (1984), Albert Pinto Ko Gussa Kyoon Aata Hai (1980), Salim Langde Pe Mat Ro (1989) and Naseem (1995), which won two National Film Awards in 1996. Saeed Mirza Was Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award at ICA – International Cultural Artifact Film Festival in 2020. He is director of the TV serials Nukkad (Street Corner) (1986) and Intezaar (Wait) (1988), along with various documentary films on social welfare and cultural activism. He is also a trustee of ANHAD, a Delhi-based NGO working for communal harmony

Kundan Shah

Writer

Kundan Shah

Gulzar

Sound

Gulzar

Basu Bhattacharya

Production

Basu Bhattacharya

Prakash Jha

Production

Prakash Jha

Sudhir Mishra

Writer

Sudhir Mishra

Tigmanshu Dhulia

Writer

Tigmanshu Dhulia

Vishal Bhardwaj

Sound

Vishal Bhardwaj

Nandita Das

Writer

Nandita Das

Nandita Das is an actor and director, one of the leading figures in the Indian film industry. She has acted in more than 40 feature films in ten different languages. Das has been acclaimed for numerous performances, including in Fire (1996), Earth (1998), Bawandar (2000), Kannathil Muthamittal (2002), Azhagi (2002), Kamli (2006), and Before The Rains (2007). Her directorial debut was with Firaaq (2008), which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, traveled to more than 50 festivals, and won more than 20 awards.

Vikramaditya Motwane

Production

Vikramaditya Motwane

Anurag Kashyap

Production

Anurag Kashyap

Anurag Kashyap is an Indian film director, screenwriter, producer and actor. He is often regarded as the face of an emerging new wave cinema for producing numerous independent films with newcomers. For his contributions to film, the Government of France awarded him the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters) in 2013. After writing a television serial, Kashyap got his major break as a co-writer in Ram Gopal Varma's crime drama Satya (1998), and made his directorial debut with Paanch, which never had a theatrical release due to censorship issues. Apart from filmmaking, Kashyap serves as the Member of board of the Mumbai-based NGO, Aangan, which helps protect vulnerable children around India. He is the founder of two film production companies: Anurag Kashyap Films, which is run by Guneet Monga, Phantom Films with partnership from directors Vikramaditya Motwane and Vikas Bahl and producer Madhu Mantena.

Dibakar Banerjee

Production

Dibakar Banerjee

Sriram Raghavan

Writer

Sriram Raghavan

Meghna Gulzar

Production

Meghna Gulzar

Hansal Mehta

Writer

Hansal Mehta

Anubhav Sinha

Writer

Anubhav Sinha

Abhishek Chaubey

Writer

Abhishek Chaubey

Neeraj Ghaywan

Writer

Neeraj Ghaywan

Amit Masurkar

Writer

Amit Masurkar

Ashim Ahluwalia

Editing

Ashim Ahluwalia

Onir

Director

Onir

Zoya Akhtar

Production

Zoya Akhtar

Kanu Behl

Writer

Kanu Behl

Vasan Bala

Director

Vasan Bala

Gauri Shinde

Writer

Gauri Shinde

Alankrita Shrivastava

Writer

Alankrita Shrivastava

Kiran Rao

Production

Kiran Rao

Ritesh Batra

Writer

Ritesh Batra