Shyam Benegal Guides

Alternate Cinema - Movies, Directors and Actors

Bollywood, acclaimed to being the biggest industry in the world, produces over 1000 films every year. This figure combines a large variety of films, the usual mainstream commercial blockbusters with popular cine stars, producers and directors, the regional movies and the parallel cinema movies. A Mainstream commercial movie basically consist of four elements - big banners, popular stars , a 'commercially-hit' script with 'masala' songs, and famous directors. It mostly works on a fixed formula and with the objective of profitability. However, Indian Alternate/Parallel cinema has cut out a... Read more »