You Can’t Think of India Without Nehru: Shyam Benegal

In the second part of an exclusive interview with India’s greatest living filmmaker Shyam Benegal, he talks about the “Muslim question” and the role of Jawaharlal Nehru in shaping the India of today.
Interview with Shyam Benegal
Interviewed by Paranjoy Guha Thakurta Produced by Newsclick Team,

In the second part of an exclusive interview with India’s greatest living filmmaker Shyam Benegal, he talks about the “Muslim question” and the role of Jawaharlal Nehru in shaping the India of today. He is ambivalent about the role of the Bharatiya Janata Party and the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh in the country’s freedom movement as he speaks with senior journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta.