

The Parallel Cinema movement began to take shape from the late 1940s, by pioneers such as Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Bimal Roy, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, Khwaja Ahmad Abbas, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Chetan Anand, Guru Dutt and V. Acclaimed as a realistic breakthrough, its shot of a howling dog near a hut, has become a milestone in the march of Indian cinema." The 1937 Shantaram film Duniya Na Mane ( The Unaccepted) also critiqued the treatment of women in Indian society. Shantaram) who "loses his land to a greedy moneylender and is forced to migrate to the city to become a mill worker. One of the earliest examples was Baburao Painter's 1925 silent film classic Savkari Pash ( Indian Shylock), about a poor peasant (portrayed by V. Realism in Indian cinema dates back to the 1920s and 1930s. 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 rejection of inserted dance-and-song routines that are typical of mainstream Indian films. It later gained prominence in other film industries of India. 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. 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. Parallel cinema, or New Indian Cinema, was 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. Indian theatre, Bengali literature, social realism, poetic realism, Italian neorealism Aravindan, Shyam Benegal, Girish Karnad, Girish Kasaravalli, Shaji N.Karun, Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Goutam Ghose, Rituparno Ghosh, K. For the Soviet film movement, see Soviet parallel cinema.ġ952–1992 (First Wave), 1998–current (Resurgence)Īshim Ahluwalia, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak, Mrinal Sen, Tapan Sinha, Adoor Gopalakrishnan, Balu Mahendra, G. This article is about the Indian film movement.
