# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/rituparno-ghosh
# Generated: 2026-08-14T04:05:25.865Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/rituparno-ghosh"
name: "Rituparno Ghosh"
slug: "rituparno-ghosh"
description: "Rituparno Ghosh was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist. After pursuing a degree in economics, he started his career as a creative artist at an advertising agency. He received recognition for his second feature film Unishe April which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. Having won 19 National Awards, along with his contemporaries Aparna Sen and Goutam Ghose, Rituparno heralded contemporary Bengali cinema to greater heights. Ghosh died on 30 May 2013 in Kolkata after a heart attack. Ghosh was one of the openly homosexual personalities in Indian cinema."
tagline: "Indian film director, actor, writer, and lyricist (1963–2013)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Rituparno.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "IN"
category:
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  slug: "directors"
profileType:
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birthDate: "1963-08-31"
deathDate: "2013-05-30"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  80
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  246
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump