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.

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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

Awards

Won[2]

Nominated[2]

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