Rituparno Ghosh

Rituparno Ghosh ঋতুপর্ণ ঘোষ
Rituparno Ghosh at MAMI festival
Born	31 August 1963 (1963-08-31) (age 48) Kolkata, West Bengal, India
Occupation	Film director
Years active	1994-present

Rituparno Ghosh (Bangla: ঋতুপর্ণ ঘোষ Ritupôrno Ghosh) is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.

Contents

1 Early life and background
2 Film career
3 As Director
- 3.1 Actor
4 Awards
5 References
6 External links

Early life and background

Ghosh was born and brought up in Kolkata. Both his parents were related to films, his father was a documentary film maker. He completed his schooling from South Point High School, and pursued economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.^[1]

Film career

He began directing in advertising. In 1992, he made a low-key film debut with a children's feature titled Hirer Angti (The Diamond Ring). His second movie Unishe April (19 April), won the 1995 National Film Award. Since then, Ghosh has directed Dahan, Utsab, Chokher Bali, Asukh, Bariwali, Antarmahal and Raincoat (in Hindi). In 2010 he won the National Award for Best Director for his Bengali film Abohoman starring Jishu Sengupta, Ananya Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey and Mamata Shankar.

As Director

Year	Date	Film	Language	Starring	Other notes
1994		Hirer Angti	Bengali	Basant Chowdhury, Moon Moon Sen, Shakuntala Barua
1994	19 April	Unishe April	Bengali	Aparna Sen, Debashree Roy, Prosenjit Chatterjee
1997		Dahan	Bengali	Indrani Halder, Abhishek Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta
1999		Bariwali	Bengali	Kirron Kher, Rupa Ganguly, Chiranjeet Chakraborty
1999		Asukh	Bengali	Soumitra Chatterjee, Debashree Roy, Arpita Pal
2000		Utsab	Bengali	Prasenjit Chatterjee, Rituparna Sengupta, Dipankar Dey
2002		Titli	Bengali	Mithun Chakraborty, Aparna Sen, Konkona Sen Sharma
2003		Shubho Mahurat	Bengali	Sharmila Tagore, Rakhee Gulzar, Nandita Das
2003	August 9	Chokher Bali	Bengali	Prasenjit Chatterjee, Aishwarya Rai, Raima Sen
2004		Raincoat	Hindi	Ajay Devgan, Aishwarya Rai, Annu Kapoor
2005		Antarmahal	Bengali	Jackie Shroff, Rupa Ganguly, Abhishek Bachchan, Soha Ali Khan
2006	14 April	Dosar	Bengali	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Konkona Sen Sharma, Chandrayee Ghosh
2007	9 September	The Last Lear	English	Amitabh Bachchan, Preity Zinta, Arjun Rampal
2008	11 July	Khela	Bengali	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Manisha Koirala, Raima Sen
2008	28 August	Shob Charitro Kalponik	Bengali	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Bipasha Basu, Jisshu Sengupta, Paoli Dam
2010	22 January	Abohoman	Bengali	Dipankar Dey, Jishu Sengupta, Mamata Shankar, Riya Sen
2010		Noukadubi	Bengali	Prosenjit Chatterjee, Jisshu Sengupta, Raima Sen, Riya Sen
2012		Sunglass	Hindi	R. Madhavan, Konkona Sen Sharma, Raima Sen, Jaya Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah
2012		Chitrangada	Bengali	Jisshu Sengupta, Raima Sen, Dipankar Dey

Actor

Arekti Premer Golpo (Just Another Love Story) (2011)
Memories in March (2011)

Awards

Won^[2]

Bombay International Film Festival
- 1999 - FIPRESCI Prize (Special Mention) - Asukh (Malaise)
- 2002 - FIPRESCI Prize (Jury Prize) - Titli (The First Monsoon Day)

Berlin International Film Festival
- 2000 - NETPAC Award - Bariwali (Lady of the House)

National Film Awards
- 1995 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film - Unishe April
- 1998 - National Film Award for Best Screenplay - Dahan
- 2001 - National Film Award for Best Direction - Utsab
- 2003 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali - Shubho Mahurat
- 2004 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali - Chokher Bali
- 2005 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi - Raincoat
- 2008 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English - The Last Lear
- 2009 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali - Shob Charitro Kalponik
- 2010 - National Film Award for Best Direction - Abohoman
- 2010 - National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali - Abohoman

Nominated^[2]

Karlovy Vary International Film Festival
1998 - Crystal Globe - Dahan
2004 - Crystal Globe (Best Film) - Raincoat

Locarno International Film Festival
- 2003 - Golden Leopard (Best Film) - Chokher Bali (A Passion Play)
- 2005 - Golden Leopard (Best Film) - Antarmahal (Views of the Inner Chamber)

References

^ http://www.tollyworld.com/director/director/rituparno-ghosh.html
^ ^a ^b "Awards for Rituparno Ghosh". Internet Movie Database. http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0315916/awards. Retrieved 2009-02-18.

External links

Rituparno Ghosh at the Internet Movie Database

Cinema of Bengal

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Films directed by Rituparno Ghosh

Hirer Angti (1992) Unishe April (1994) Dahan (1997) Bariwali (1999) Asukh (1999) Utsab (2000) Titli (2002) Shubho Mahurat (2003) Chokher Bali (2003) Raincoat (2004) Antar Mahal (2005) Dosar (2006) The Last Lear (2008) Khela (2008) Shob Charitro Kalponik (2009) Abohoman (2010) Sunglass (2010)

National Film Award for Best Direction

1968–1980	Satyajit Ray (1968) Satyajit Ray (1969) Mrinal Sen (1970) Satyajit Ray (1971) Girish Karnad and B. V. Karanth (1972) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1973) Mani Kaul (1974) Satyajit Ray (1975) Satyajit Ray (1976) P. Lankesh (1977) G. Aravindan (1978) G. Aravindan (1979) Mrinal Sen (1980)

1981–2000	Mrinal Sen (1981) Aparna Sen (1982) Utpalendu Chakrabarty (1983) Mrinal Sen (1984) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1985) Shyam Benegal (1986) G. Aravindan (1987) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1988) Shaji N. Karun (1989) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1990) Tapan Sinha (1991) Satyajit Ray (1992) Gautam Ghose (1993) T. V. Chandran (1994) Jahnu Barua (1995) Saeed Akhtar Mirza (1996) Agathiyan (1997) Jayaraj (1998) Rajivnath (1999) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2000)

2001–present	Rituparno Ghosh (2001) B. Lenin (2002) Aparna Sen (2003) Gautam Ghose (2004) Buddhadeb Dasgupta (2005) Rahul Dholakia (2006) Madhur Bhandarkar (2007) Adoor Gopalakrishnan (2008) Bala (2009) Rituparno Ghosh (2010) Vetrimaaran (2011)