Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Balu Mahendra, G. Aravindan, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad, Girish Kasaravalli, Shaji N.Karun, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Goutam Ghose, B. Narsing Rao, Nagesh Kukunoor, Rituparno Ghosh, K. N. T. Sastry, Ram Gopal Varma, Mani Kaul, Saeed Akhtar Mirza, Ashim Ahluwalia,[1]
Influences
Indian theatre, Bengali literature, social realism, poetic realism, Italian neorealism
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.
Inspired by Italian Neorealism, Parallel Cinema began just before the French New Wave and Japanese New Wave, and was a precursor to the Indian New Wave of the 1960s. The movement was initially led by Bengali cinema and produced internationally acclaimed filmmakers such as Satyajit Ray, Mrinal Sen, Ritwik Ghatak, Tapan Sinha and others. It later gained prominence in other film industries of India.
It is known for its serious content, realism and naturalism, symbolic elements with a keen eye on the sociopolitical climate of the times, and for the general rejection of inserted song-and-dance routines that are typical of mainstream Indian films.
^"Our ultimate guide to the 1970-80s parallel cinema gems". 5 May 2020.
Parallelcinema 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...
commercial masala films, a distinctive genre of art films known as parallelcinema has also existed, presenting realistic content and avoidance of musical...
Soviet parallelcinema is a genre of film and underground cinematic movement that occurred in the Soviet Union in the 1970s onwards. The term parallel cinema...
early Bombay cinema where "Arabian Nights cinema" became a popular genre. Like mainstream Indian popular cinema, Indian parallelcinema was influenced...
a result, the gap between parallelcinema (now known as art cinema) and mainstream cinema (now known as commercial cinema) widened. The 2000s also saw...
cinema in addition to Bollywood, Kannada language films, and television. Varma has directed films across multiple genres, including parallelcinema and...
has spanned over 160 films, mostly within independent and neorealist parallelcinema, though her work extended to mainstream films as well as a number of...
Telugu cinema in addition to Hindi, Kannada language films, and television. Varma has directed films across multiple genres, including parallelcinema and...
(1983). While mostly prolific in popular Hindi cinema, during this time she ventured into parallelcinema, a movement of neo-realist arthouse films. These...
have made significant contributions to Bangladeshi mainstream cinema, parallelcinema, and art films. Some have also won global acclaim. On 28 December...
Shah (born 20 July 1950) is an Indian actor. He is notable in Indian parallelcinema and has starred in various international productions. He has won numerous...
Marathi, Malayalam and English films. He has featured in theatre plays, parallelcinema and television shows. Nag made his feature film debut through Sankalpa...
of one of Benegal's best works blurring the lines of commercial and parallelcinema. Zubeidaa is the story of Riyaz's (Rajit Kapoor) search to understand...
Malashree, Sudharani, Shruti, Tara among others. Kannada Cinema majorly contributed to the parallelcinema movement of India. Directors like Girish Kasaravalli...
death on 28 December 2013. His major contribution was in ParallelCinema or the New Indian Cinema. He worked with directors like Satyajit Ray, Sai Paranjpye...
with Sai Paranjpye's Jadu Ka Shankh in 1974. He worked in several parallelcinema films before working in the mainstream Hindi film industry. He appeared...
to: Neorealism (art) Italian neorealism (film) Indian neorealism or parallelcinema Neorealism (international relations) New realism (philosophy) Realism...
superstar of Indian arthouse cinema" while Maxim named him "the Sean Penn of Oriental cinema" for his work in parallelcinema films like English, August...
Ramachandran, Naman (25 February 2024). "Kumar Shahani, Pioneer of India's ParallelCinema Movement, Dies at 83". Variety. Coveney, Michael (12 March 2024). "Michael...
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Kapoor's star power began to wane as he shifted his focus majorly towards parallelcinema and limited his work in mainstream films, accepting only few offers...
she took on more dramatic roles in both mainstream and neorealist parallelcinema. Appearing in films ranging from marital dramas to literary adaptations...
which did not exist before. Punjabi film industry has established ParallelCinema in these years also. The National Award-winning Marhi Da Deeva (1989)...
movies, India also offers a different approach to cinema: the parallelcinema. The parallelcinema movement originated in West Bengal around the 1950s...
screenplay, while ParallelCinema veteran K.K. Mahajan provided the cinematography. Sony Music India would later release a CinemaCinema soundtrack album...
complex characters on screen, and is vociferous in his support for parallelcinema in India. Deol owns a production company, Forbidden Films which he...
(1975). She became one of the leading actresses of parallelcinema, a New Wave movement in India cinema, though she also appeared in several mainstream movies...
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