Masterpieces of Rituparno Ghosh
Maestro Rituparno Ghosh has directed only 21 Films from 1992 to 2013 that includes 17 Bengali films, 3 Hindi films and 1 English films.
He received recognition for his second feature film Unishe April which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. He along with his contemporaries Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Aparna Sen and Goutam Ghose, Rituparno heralded contemporary Bengali cinema to greater heights.
In his career spanning almost two decades, he won 12 National and 3 International awards. His unreleased Bengali movie Sunglass (also known as Taak Jhaank) was honoured and released at the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival.
Rituparno Ghosh won 2 National Award for Direction.
1.Utsab
2.Abohoman
He is the 6th Director to win National Award in Bengali.
He has won the International Film Award 3 times.
1.Asukh won the FIPRESCI Prize (Special Mention) for Best Film.
2.Titli won the FIPRESCI Prize (Jury Prize) for Best Film.
3.Bariwali won the NETPAC Award for Best Film.
He received recognition for his second feature film Unishe April which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film. He along with his contemporaries Buddhadeb Dasgupta, Aparna Sen and Goutam Ghose, Rituparno heralded contemporary Bengali cinema to greater heights.
In his career spanning almost two decades, he won 12 National and 3 International awards. His unreleased Bengali movie Sunglass (also known as Taak Jhaank) was honoured and released at the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival.
Rituparno Ghosh won 2 National Award for Direction.
1.Utsab
2.Abohoman
He is the 6th Director to win National Award in Bengali.
He has won the International Film Award 3 times.
1.Asukh won the FIPRESCI Prize (Special Mention) for Best Film.
2.Titli won the FIPRESCI Prize (Jury Prize) for Best Film.
3.Bariwali won the NETPAC Award for Best Film.
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- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsVasant ChoudhuryGyanesh MukherjeeSunil MukherjeeGandharva Kumar reveals a long-forgotten secret wherein he claims to be heir to the family property to Ratanlal Babu.Directorial debut, based on Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay's novel
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAparna SenDebashree RoyDipankar DeyPotrays a sentimental mother daughter relation. How a female dancer sets her priority and became famous but loses her relationship with her daughter on the way .National Film Award for Best Feature Film
National Film Award for Best Actress – Debashree Roy - DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsShakuntala BaruaNirmal Kumar ChakrabortyChandniOn her way home the newly wed Romita is molested by five men. The only one who has the courage to help is the young female teacher Jhinuk. Because of that she becomes a heroine and is on all papers' front page. But the page is turning: As not only the police but also neighbours begin to ask embarrassing questions the two women are eventually intimidated and the five man are getting free with the help of corruption and male domination.National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
National Film Award for Best Screenplay – Rituparno Ghosh
National Film Award for Best Actress – Indrani Halder, Rituparna Sengupta - DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsKirron KherChiranjitSudipta ChakrabortyA lonely middle-aged woman is forced by circumstance to let out her house to a film crew. She is attracted to the charming director and he exploits this fact to suit his purposes.National Film Award for Best Actress – Kirron Kher
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress – Sudipta Chakraborty - DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsSoumitra ChatterjeeDebashree RoyArpita ChatterjeeSudhamoy is forced to depend on his daughter's earnings. His life takes a drastic turn when his wife falls ill and gets hospitalized.National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsMadhavi MukherjeePradip MukherjeeBodhisattva MazumdarTwo middle-aged daughters of Bhagabati come together with their families in their old house to celebrate Durga Puja.National Film Award for Best Direction
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAparna SenMithun ChakrabortyDipankar DeyA young girl's crush on a movie star has a chance of blossoming into love when the pair meet...but fate has a twist in store.Mithun Chakraborty earned Best Actor National Award Nomination in the 50th National Film Award.
Screened at the MAMI International Film Festival.
Won the FIBRESCI Award for Best Film. - DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsSharmila TagoreNandita DasKalyani MandalAn actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt investigate.National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress – Raakhee
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali - DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAishwarya Rai BachchanPrasenjit ChatterjeeRaima SenBinodini is a young widow who lives with a woman and her son, Mahendra, who had once refused to marry her. Their lives are thrown into disarray when there is deceit and adultery between Binodini, Mahendra, his wife and his friend.National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAjay DevgnAishwarya Rai BachchanAnnu KapoorAll he wanted was to see her just once. Manu was from a village in the backwoods. Neeru was the girl next door, his lost love.National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsJackie ShroffAbhishek BachchanRoopa GangulyIn late 19th Century, Bengal Bhubaneswar Chowdhury (Jackie Shroff) is a wealthy and tyrannical Zamidar (Squire). He has two main obsessions: his desperate attempts for an heir, which even his new second wife Jashomati seems unable to deliver; and competing with his regional rivals to produce the most magnificent effigy of a goddess for the annual Durga Puja ceremony. This year he concocts a master plan - why not change the face of the goddess for the most powerful woman on Earth - Queen Victoria. Meantime his two wives Mahomaya and Jashomati try to look out for one another especially as Bhubeneshwar begins to sexually assault his younger wife each night. Traumatised and lonely, Jashomati is dangerously drawn towards the youthful sculptor who has been employed to create the great effigy of Durga, Goddess of destruction.Jackie Shroff in lead and Abhishek Bachchan in supporting role made their Bengali debut with this film.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsPrasenjit ChatterjeeKonkona Sen SharmaChandrayee GhoshThe story of "Dwando" revolves around Sudipta who faces a serious ethical dilemma involving her personal relationship with her husband. She is torn between two choices, each with vast and cascading repercussions affecting the lives of serveral people.National Film Awards – Special Jury Award – Prosenjit Chatterjee
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsAmitabh BachchanPreity G ZintaArjun RampalAn aging Shakespearean actor takes on one of the bard's most challenging roles. Based on Utpal Dutt's play "Aajker Shahjahan".National Film Award for Best Feature Film in English
National Film Award for Best Supporting Actress – Shefali Shah - DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsHaradhan BannerjeeManish BhattacharyaSatbol BhattacharyaKolkata-based Sheela Bhowmik feels isolated and neglected, and decides to leave her busy film-maker husband, Raja, to spend sometime with her friend, Renu, her mom, and then subsequently travels to Kashmir to spend some time by herself. Raja gets involved in a new movie depicting the life of Gautam Buddh, and is on the look-out for a male child to play the character. He does find one, a young school-going lad, Abhirup Mitra; introduces him to the Producer, Vikram; as well as other crew including beautiful Anjali, who has a crush on Raja. Neither Vikram, Anjali nor any of the crew are aware that Raja is the prime suspect in the abduction of Abhirup.Khela also marks actress Manisha Koirala's foray into Bengali cinema.
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsPrasenjit ChatterjeeBipasha BasuJisshu SenguptaIndraneel's sudden death averts a possible divorce, and takes Radhika on a fantastic inward journey of discovery of her own roots through the language of poetry, and lost love. A publisher asks Radhika to complete Indraneel's works. This compels her to study his work, and thus begins her journey into the past. She realizes how much he romanticized their mundane, everyday life. Yet in reality, he was often insensitive, negligent and apathetic towards her. She wonders about his dual identity. How can a poet be unaware of his day-to-day realities, yet highlight moments from it in his art? Is art essentially an artifice?National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsDipankar DeyMamata ShankarJisshu SenguptaAbohomaan tells the story of Aniket, one of the finest filmmakers of Bengal in eastern India and the loves of his life. Devoted to his craft, Aniket met and fell in love with his wife Deepti, an actress, while they worked together on the set of a film. They were so in love that Deepti sacrificed her own career for her husband's and for their son Apratim, but lost a little of who she was in the process. The plot thickens when Aniket auditions a young actress, Shikha, who bares an uncanny resemblance to his wife when she was younger. Deepti enthusiastically begins to coach Shikha for her husband's film - so much so that Shikha becomes even more like the girl Deepti used to be and as a result the aging Aniket falls in love with Shikha, a woman as young as his son, despite the sadness and trouble it brings to his family.National Film Award for Best Direction – Rituparno Ghosh
National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Bengali
National Film Award for Best Actress – Ananya Chatterjee - DirectorJahnu BaruaRahul DholakiaRituparno GhoshStarsMeer Asad AliRaj Singh AroraRam Gopal BajajEleven directors tell eleven different stories about Mumbai.Mumbai Cutting had its world premier on 27 April 2008 at ArcLight Hollywood as the closing film of 2008 Indian Film Festival of Los Angeles, thereafter it was also the closing film of the 10th Osian Film Festival in July 2008, though it was commercially unreleased.
It tells eleven different stories based on life in Mumbai.
"Urge", directed by Rituparno Ghosh - DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsJisshu SenguptaRiya SenRaima SenMonths after an accident following his marriage, a husband finds that the veiled woman he brought home is not his wife.
The Film was premiered as the opening film of the Indian Panorama section during the 41st International Film Festival of India (IFFI), Goa on 24 November 2010, in the year that marked Rabindranath Tagore's 150th birth anniversary. It later had its commercial release in January 2011
The film was also dubbed in Hindi and released on May 2011 under the name "Kashmakash".The film was produced by Subhash Ghai. - DirectorRituparno GhoshSanjoy NagStarsRituparno GhoshJisshu SenguptaKaushik BanerjeeChitraganda: The Crowning Wish, is a lusciously lit and deeply personal drama about a choreographer considering a gender-reassignment surgery. The film also explores insights into how gender expression can affect families.National Film Awards – Special Jury Award
- DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsSujoy GhoshIndraneil SenguptaArpita ChatterjeeA prince grants his father's dying wish and secures his inheritance by marrying. The palace librarian who was befriended by the new bride goes missing, and the prince invites Byomkesh Bakshi to uncover the truth behind his disappearance.Released posthumously.
Indian film director Sujoy Ghosh portrayed the character Byomkesh Bakshi in this film. - DirectorRituparno GhoshStarsJaya BachchanMadhavanTota Roy ChowdhuryA satirical comedy about the seven-year itch between a husband and wife and how their life turns Topsy-turvy with the entry of what seems to be an ordinary pair of antique sunglasses.Released posthumously at the 19th Kolkata International Film Festival inauguration in 2013.