Khwaja Ahmad Abbas was an Indian film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist in Urdu, Hindi and English.
Abbas in 1939
Parallel cinema or New Indian Cinema, is a film movement in Indian cinema that originated in the state of West Bengal in the 1950s as an alternative to the mainstream commercial Indian cinema.
Satyajit Ray
Mrinal Sen
Ritwik Ghatak
Satyajit Ray, pioneer of parallel cinema