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English, August made in 1994 is Indian film director Dev Benegal
s first feature film. This film ignited the next generation of Indian cinema and is acknowledged as a landmark in contemporary Indian cinema. A humorous and irreverent study of bureaucracy and the Indian Generation X, English, August won the Silver Grand Prix and the Gilberto Martinez Solares
prize for the Best First Film at the , Nantes and the Special Jury Award at the Torino International Film Festival, Italy.

English, August' became the first Indian independent film to break the stranglehold of mainstream Indian Bollywood cinema when it was acquired by 20th Century Fox and became a theatrical success in the country. This has set of a trend of movies, which are part of the next generation of Indian cinema.

The movie is based on a novel by the same name, English, August by Upamanyu Chatterjee.

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