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77th Cannes Film Festival: Shyam Benegal’s classic Manthan, starring late Smita Patil, will be screened on Friday | Bollywood

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The 77th edition of the ongoing Cannes Film Festival will witness a significant milestone for Indian cinema on a global stage as Shyam Benegal‘s classic Manthan will be screened during a prestigious gala on Friday at Salle Bunuel. (Also Read | India at Cannes Film Festival 2024: Kinnari Jain heads to the gala to support Smita Patil’s film Manthan) Smita Patil and Girish Karnad in a still from Manthan. Manthan, which starred late actor Smita Patil, is the only Indian film to be selected under the Cannes Classic section of the festival this year. The film also featured Naseeruddin Shah, Girish Karnad, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Mohan Agashe, Anant Nag, and Amrish Puri among others. Unlock exclusive access to the latest news on India’s general elections, only on the HT App. Download Now! Download Now! The film, based on the pioneering milk cooperative movement of Dr Verghese Kurien — the father of the White Revolution in India, was produced by five lakh dairy farmers of the Gujarat Cooperative Milk Marketing Federation (GCMMF), which markets its products under …

Shyam Benegal’s daughter Pia calls reports of his health ‘incorrect’: He is fine (Exclusive) | Bollywood

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Multiple reports on Saturday, claimed that National Award filmmaker Shyam Benegal has been undergoing dialysis at home owing to both his kidneys failing. When we reached out to Benegal, his daughter, costume designer Pia Benegal picked the call and called the reports “incorrect”. “All the information and material online is wrong,” she shares. Ask her if the Ankur (1974) director is hale and hearty and she claps back, “It is none of your business right now. He will be hale and hearty in a few days.” Pia, however, asks us to “put it out there” that her father is fine. “Doctors are coming to the house, he is getting dialysis at home, that he is so ill that he cannot go to the hospital, all are incorrect information,” she claims. Pia states that her father is fine, however, probe if he is in touch with the doctors, she says, “There’s nothing that I can tell you now. He shall be back in the office in sometime… Yeah (he is fine), as fine as he can …