
Shyam Benegal’s generosity of spirit and time
Forty-four years after having known and worked with Shyam Benegal, I finally turned my camera on him. It was January 2023. I was asking him about his film Mandi (1984), which I had also worked on. One of my jobs back then was to take photographs of the actors’ costumes, make-up, and jewellery. Mandi was…