Realistic Movies: The Craft Of Creative Minds
off beat movies is also seen in other regional movies. The genre of realistic film has given birth to many ace filmmakers in the Indian film industry. Realistic films were made in almost all languages. Realistic film made mostly in Hindi and South Indian languages from time to time but it was Shyam Bengal’s debut hindi film Ankur (1973), which started an offbeat wave. This genre of offbeat film was nourished by many big names of Indian film industry like Govind Nihalani, Basu Chatterjee, Ketan Mehta, Mahesh Bhatt, Kalpana Lajmi and Nabendu Ghosh. They pioneered a new path in filmmaking.
In the 21st century this trend of making realistic movies has been kept alive by filmmakers who believe that cinema was the art of the directors, not that of the artistes or technical experts. These offbeat films not only make us aware of the social economic condition
