Rituparno Ghosh
Indian film director, actor, writer, and lyricist (1963-2013) · India · On the map · Directors · Died at 49
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.
Rituparno Ghosh is read about 169 times a day, in 24 languages.
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Something wrong?A life in dates
Her Name is RanjanaSeries, 2013Director, Writer2012National Film Award - Special Jury Award / Special MentionAward
ChitrangadaFilm, 2012Director, Writer2011
Memories in MarchFilm, Writer2010
Gaaner OpareySeries, Creator
Just Another Love StoryFilm, 2010Abhiroop / Chapal's Vergangenheit2008
KhelaFilm, Director, Writer2007National Film Award for Best Feature Film in EnglishAward2006
DosarFilm, Director2005
AntarmahalFilm, Director, Writer2004National Film Award for Best Feature Film in HindiAward
RaincoatFilm, 2004Director, Writer2002
TitliFilm, Director, Writer2000
BariwaliFilm, Director, Writer1999
AsukhFilm, Director, Writer1998National Film Award for Best Bengali Feature FilmAward1994National Film Award for Best Feature FilmAward
Unishe AprilFilm, 1994Director, Writer1992
Hirer AngtiFilm, Director, Writer1963Born31 August 1963People around Rituparno
Close ties
Raima Sen Rituparno directed Chokher Bali and Khela
Prosenjit Chatterjee Rituparno directed Chokher Bali and Unishe April
Jisshu Sengupta Rituparno directed The Last Lear and Abohoman
Tota Roy Chowdhury Rituparno directed Chokher Bali (2003)
Konkona Sen Sharma Rituparno directed Sunglass, Titli and Dosar
Mamata Shankar Rituparno directed Abohoman and Utsab
Aparna Sen Rituparno directed Unishe April and Titli
Riya Sen Rituparno directed Abohoman and Noukadubi
Roopa Ganguly Rituparno directed Bariwali (2000)
Sanjoy Directed Memories in March (2011)
Aishwarya Rai Rituparno directed Raincoat and Chokher Bali
Indraneil Sengupta Rituparno directed Satyanweshi (2013)
Rituparna Sengupta Rituparno directed Dahan and Utsab
Abhishek Chatterjee Rituparno directed Bariwali and Dahan
Arpita Pal Rituparno directed Satyanweshi and Asukh- Deepankar De Rituparno directed Abohoman and Utsab
Sharmila Tagore Rituparno directed Shubho Mahurat (2003)
Nandita Das Rituparno directed Shubho Mahurat (2003)
Debashree Roy Rituparno directed Asukh (1999)
Ananya Chatterjee Rituparno directed Abohoman (2010)
Shiboprosad Mukherjee Rituparno directed Bariwali (2000)
Amitabh Bachchan Rituparno directed The Last Lear (2008)
Preity Zinta Rituparno directed The Last Lear (2008)
Kirron Kher Rituparno directed Bariwali (2000)
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Filmography 26
66 credits on file
Television 2
Media & music
Photos 5
Bengali award-winning film director Rituparno Ghosh, charcoal on paper by Amitabh Mitra
Rituparno Ghosh (left) with Subhash Ghai (right) and Debojyoti Mishra (behind) at the audio release of Noukadubi
Rituparno Ghosh with Amitabh Bachchan (right) at the set of The Last Lear
Rituparno Ghosh was a researcher and admirer of Rabindranath Tagore (pictured).Awards
About this person
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.