# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/ritesh-batra
# Generated: 2026-08-13T09:17:12.517Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/ritesh-batra"
name: "Ritesh Batra"
slug: "ritesh-batra"
description: "Ritesh Batra is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Batra's Hindi-language debut feature film The Lunchbox premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the Rail d'Or. Batra also won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature Film in 2014. The Lunchbox was the highest-grossing foreign film in North America, Europe and Australia for 2014 grossing over US$25 Million. The film was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language in 2015."
tagline: "Indian film director and screenwriter"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "India"
  isoCode: "IN"
category:
  name: "Directors"
  slug: "directors"
profileType:
  name: "Movie Director"
  slug: "director"
  entityType: "https://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q33999"
birthDate: "1979-06-12"
livingStatus: "LIVING"
scores:
  popularity:           50.92
  momentum:             16.76058686228743
  historical:           8.660305333333334
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     59.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "BREAKOUT"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3592235/"
    handle:    "nm3592235"
sources:
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    title: "رتیش بترا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "ريتيش باترا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "রিতেশ বত্রা"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritesh_Batra"
    title: "Ritesh Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritesh_Batra"
    title: "Ritesh Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%B1%DB%8C%D8%AA%D8%B4_%D8%A8%D8%A7%D8%AA%D8%B1%D8%A7"
    title: "ریتش باترا"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Ritesh Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritesh_Batra"
    title: "Ritesh Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritesh_Batra"
    title: "Ritesh Batra"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15814128"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1117026"
    title: "Ritesh Batra"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump