Thursday 30 May 2013

National award winning director Rituparno Ghosh passes away at 49

National award winning director Rituparno Ghosh passes away at 49

Well known filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh passed away on Thursday morning when he suffered a cardiac arrest. One of leading directors in Indian cinema, was just 49 years of age and was suffering from pancreatitis.
Rituparno Ghosh had made some of the highly acclaimed films like Raincoat starring Aishwarya Rai, Chokher Bali and The Last Lear. 
Ghosh was born on 31 August 1963 and was brought up in Kolkata. He started his career in advertising and his directional debut was Hirer Angti (The diamond ring). He got National film award for Best Director for his Bengali film Abohoman.
His last release is Chitrangada based on Rabindra Nath Tagore writing. In his career he worked on Hindi, Bangla and Oriya movies.
He has claim to more than a dozen of National Film Awards for his films. His film Chokher Bali, based on a famous Rabindranath Tagore story, starring Aishwarya Rai won the National Film Award for his Best Feature Film in Bengali and was nominated for the Golden Leopard (Best Film) award at the Locarno International Film Festival in 2003. 
National award winning director Rituparno Ghosh passes away at 49
Aishwarya Rai with Ajay Devgn  in Raincoat.
  
National award winning director Rituparno Ghosh passes away at 49
Aishwarya Rai and Ria Sen in Chokher Bali.
  
National award winning director Rituparno Ghosh passes away at 49
Rituparno Ghosh at an event.
  
National award winning director Rituparno Ghosh passes away at 49
Soha Ali Khan and Abhishek Bachchan in Antarmahal.
  

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