Boman Irani Mourns Shyam Benegal’s Death, Says 'It Is An End Of An Era Of That Kind Of Cinema '

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During Shyam Benegal's funeral, Bollywood star Boman Irani said, "I became an actor, I just wish I had an opportunity to work with him, then one fine day he phoned me many many 35 years later and told me to do ‘Well Done Abba’. I don't know how I'm holding myself up now, but I cried that day because I knew the experience would never recur in my life. I've never cried when I left a movie set.”  #ShyamBenegal #RaviDubey #Sargun #Dreamiyat #RajendraChawla #ArvindVaidya #TerranceLewis #KaranWahi #Trending #2024 #BollywoodCountry #BollywoodNews #BollywoodGossips #BollywoodUpdates #BollywoodNews #Bollywood #Bollywoodcelebrity #BollywoodHindiNews #ians

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00:00I become an actor I just wish I had a chance to work with him and then one fine day he called me

00:06many many maybe 30-35 years after that later and asked me to do Well Done Abba. I have never cried

00:13leaving a film set but on that day I cried I don't know how I'm holding myself up today

00:17I cried because I knew that that experience will never come back in my life never again. I learned

00:22so much I learned about cinema life general knowledge literature art humanity and most of

00:30all humor and he treated everybody equally he was there was equality mostly spending time with him

00:38was like enriching yourself so we will miss him it is an end of an era there is no doubt about it

00:43it is an end of an era of a kind of cinema that every month somewhere there would be a retrospective

00:48of his films in some corner of the planet and he would go he would travel a lot in the last few

00:53years though he could not but I remember where are you going I'm going to Chile where are you

00:56going I'm going to Venezuela where are you going I'm going to Japan and everywhere they would play

00:59a retrospective of his films such was his legacy I think everybody over here and the rest of the

01:04country have lost somebody very very truly great to see there can only be one Sham Benegal right

01:11um I think youngsters should go into his archives watch his films find that inspiration

01:22and maybe in his passing he will leave us a gift for us to remind us have a look at my films they

01:29will learn something from that I think Ankur was for me most most heartbreaking it was something

01:36like Rishida asked him why is the sound in your film so different he's saying because I'm shooting

01:41on location he never did the dubbing so he brought he brought back you know even technique and and

01:47aesthetics and storytelling and he told me one thing I'll never forget as a as a as a cinema

01:53person even if you watch a film in any language the film is good if you don't need subtitles

01:59that's the power of storytelling

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