Shyam Benegal, an Indian filmmaker who in a career that began in the 1970s made many of his country’s best-loved films — mostly heavy-hitting features that addressed social issues head onc88 game, but also documentaries and television series — died on Monday in Mumbai. He was 90.

His daughter, Pia Benegal, told the Press Trust of India, a news agency, that he died in a hospital of chronic kidney disease.

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Mr. Benegal worked nonstop from the 1950s, when he apprenticed as a filmmaker on television advertisements. But it was during a particularly fecund phase, in the 1970s and ’80s, that he burst onto the scene and made his most distinctive impression on India’s imagination.

India in that period was notoriously impoverished, as it struggled to find its identity in the first decades of independence from British colonial rule.

Mr. Benegal captured some of the most pertinent social issues of the time in “Ankur” (“The Seedling”), a 1974 film that tells the story of a privileged landowner who takes advantage of a poor couple and addresses themes of caste, human cruelty and the plight of women in rural India. It was nominated for the Golden Bear, the highest honor for a feature film, at the Berlin International Film Festival.

This month, Mr. Benegal was photographed commemorating his birthday with some of India’s most highly regarded actors, including Naseeruddin Shah and Shabana Azmi, who posted a picture on social media.

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