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Parallel cinema

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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Location
India
Influences
Indian theatre, Bengali literature, social realism, poetic realism, Italian neorealism
Major figures
Satyajit Ray · Ritwik Ghatak · Mrinal Sen · Tapan Sinha · Adoor Gopalakrishnan
Years active
1952–1992 (first wave), 1998–current (resurgence)

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related to Growth · 67
Parallel cinema → Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Amol Palekar, Ankur, Aravindan, Ashadh Ka Ek Din, Benegal's, Bharathan, Camera, Cannes, Cannes Film Festival, Chandran, Deepti Naval, During, Duvidha, Elippathayam, Farooq Shaikh, Golden Age, Gopalakrishnan, Govind Nihalani, Gulzar
related to Global discourse · 50
Parallel cinema → Abbas Kiarostami, Akira Kurosawa, American, Apu, Asian, Bengali, Bimal Roy's Do Bigha, Blue, Cannes Film Festival, Carlos Saura, Charulata, Chetan Anand's Neecha Nagar, De Sica's Bicycle Thieves, Deepa Mehta, During, Elements, Elia Kazan, European, Ever, François Truffaut
related to Resurgence · 31
Parallel cinema → Aisi, Amit Dutta's Sonchidi, Anand Gandhi's Ship, Anurag Kashyap's Black Friday, Bas Ek Pal, Bollywood, Dahan, Deewarein, Dor, Flowers, However, India, Jahnu Barua's Maine Gandhi, Kiran Rao's Dhobi Ghat, Ko Nahin Mara, Mani Ratnam's Yuva, Manish Jha's Matrubhoomi, Mumbai, Nagesh Kukunoor's, Nikhil
related to Other major reasons for decline · 27
Parallel cinema → Amit Dutta, Amitabh Chakraborty, Anand Subramanian, Ashish Avikunthak, Ashwini Mallik, Bela Negi, Film Societies, Gradually, Gurvinder Singh, Himanshu Khatua, India, Murali Nair, National Film Development Corporation, One, Paresh Kamdar, Priya Krishnaswamy, Ramchandra PN, Sanjivan Lal, Since, Sushant Mishra
Major figures · 25
Parallel cinema → Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Ashim Ahluwalia, B. Narsing Rao, Balu Mahendra, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, G. Aravindan, Girish Karnad, Girish Kasaravalli, Goutam Ghose, Jabbar Patel, Jahnu Barua, K. N. T. Sastry, Mani Kaul, Mrinal Sen, Nagesh Kukunoor, Ram Gopal Varma, Rituparno Ghosh, Ritwik Ghatak, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Satyajit Ray
related to Early years · 23
Parallel cinema → Bengal, Bimal Roy, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Cannes Film Festival, Chetan Anand, Dharti Ke Lal, Early, Golden Age, Grand Prize, Guru Dutt, Indian, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Mrinal Sen, Neecha Nagar, Or, Palme, Ritwik Ghatak, Satyajit Ray, Shantaram, Since
see also · 7
Parallel cinema → Best Feature FilmNew, Film Award, IndiaCinema, Malayalam, NovoList, Soviet, West BengalMasala
Influences · 1
Parallel cinema → Indian theatre, Bengali literature, social realism, poetic realism, Italian neorealism
Location · 1
Parallel cinema → India
Years active · 1
Parallel cinema → 1952–1992 (first wave), 1998–current (resurgence)

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cinema films film indian parallel art ray also satyajit movement commercial filmmakers ghatak sen ritwik bengali cannes major ray's international

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Parallel cinemaInfluencesIndian theatre, Bengali literature, social realism, poetic realism, Italian neorealism1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaLocationIndia1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresSatyajit Ray1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresRitwik Ghatak1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresMrinal Sen1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresTapan Sinha1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresAdoor Gopalakrishnan1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresBalu Mahendra1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresG. Aravindan1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresShyam Benegal1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresGirish Karnad1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresVijaya Mehta1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresJabbar Patel1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresGirish Kasaravalli1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresShaji N.Karun1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresBuddhadeb Dasgupta1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresJahnu Barua1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresGoutam Ghose1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresB. Narsing Rao1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresNagesh Kukunoor1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresRituparno Ghosh1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresK. N. T. Sastry1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresRam Gopal Varma1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresMani Kaul1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresSaeed Akhtar Mirza1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresAshim Ahluwalia1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaMajor figuresV. Shantaram1.00infobox
Parallel cinemaYears active1952–1992 (first wave), 1998–current (resurgence)1.00infobox

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