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Parallel cinema, or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema.
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| Subject | Predicate | Object | Confidence | Src |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Parallel cinema | Influences | Indian theatre, Bengali literature, social realism, poetic realism, Italian neorealism | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Location | India | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Satyajit Ray | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Ritwik Ghatak | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Mrinal Sen | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Tapan Sinha | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Adoor Gopalakrishnan | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Balu Mahendra | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | G. Aravindan | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Shyam Benegal | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Girish Karnad | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Vijaya Mehta | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Jabbar Patel | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Girish Kasaravalli | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Shaji N.Karun | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Jahnu Barua | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Goutam Ghose | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | B. Narsing Rao | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Nagesh Kukunoor | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Rituparno Ghosh | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | K. N. T. Sastry | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Ram Gopal Varma | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Mani Kaul | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Saeed Akhtar Mirza | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | Ashim Ahluwalia | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Major figures | V. Shantaram | 1.00 | infobox |
| Parallel cinema | Years active | 1952–1992 (first wave), 1998–current (resurgence) | 1.00 | infobox |
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