What profession does Gus Van Sant and Shyam Benegal have in common?
Shyam Benegal Shyam Benegal (born 14 December 1934) is an Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films "Ankur" (1973), "Nishant" (1975), "Manthan" (1976) and "" (1977) he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India. He has expressed dislike of the term, preferring his work to be called New or Alternate cinema. Benegal was awarded the Padma Shri in 1976 and the Padma Bhushan in 1991. On 8 August 2007, Benegal was awarded the highest award in Indian cinema for lifetime achievement, the Dadasaheb Phalke Award for the year 2005. He has won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi seven times.
Gyan Dutt Gyan Dutt was one of the most prominent music directors in Bollywood in the 1940s. He was music director for films such as "Thokar" (1939), "Achhut" (1940), "Bhakta Surdas" (1942), "Sunehre Din" (1949) and "Ghayal" (1951). Many of his songs were sung by K. L. Saigal. In 1948 he composed seven songs for a young Geeta Dutt in the films "Chanda Ki Chandani" and "Hua Savera", although their most notable collaboration was "Dilruba" (1950) in which Dutt wrote eight songs, six of which were solos for Geeta Dutt.