Rituparno Ghosh

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Rituparno Ghosh at the Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image (MAMI) -Festival 2010

Rituparno Ghosh ( Bengali ঋতুপর্ণ ঘোষ Ṛtuparṇa Ghoṣ ; born August 31, 1963 in Calcutta , West Bengal ; † May 30, 2013 ibid) was an Indian director of Bengali films .

Life

Ghosh grew up in Kolkata and studied economics . He started out doing commercials and made his feature film debut in 1992 with the low-budget children's film Hirer Angti . Already with his second film Unishe April , the film critics noticed and he won his first National Film Award for this film in 1995 . Since then he has made several successful films with Dahan , Utsab , Chokher Bali and Raincoat . His films deal with family and social relationships. Because of his keen observation of Indian society, some local critics saw Ghosh as a successor to Satyajit Ray .

Chokher Bali (2003) with actress Aishwarya Rai brought Ghosh back into the limelight of Indian film . Rai's voice was dubbed in Bengali for this. In 2003 the film was nominated for the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival .

Ghosh, who suffered from a pancreatic disease, died of a heart attack at his Calcutta home.

Filmography

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