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Ranjan Ghosh | |
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 Ranjan Ghosh at the Hrid Majharey premiere in Calcutta, 11 July 2014. | |
| Born | Durgapur, West Bengal, India |
| Occupation | Screenwriter / Director |
| Years active | 2011 – present |
Ranjan Ghosh (Bengali: রঞ্জন ঘোষ Rônjôn Ghosh) is a Bengali filmmaker based out of Kolkata, India. He had risen to prominence with the release of Aparna Sen's Bengali feature film Iti Mrinalini, by becoming the first and the only screenwriter, the acclaimed actor-director had collaborated with in her illustrious career till date. With this film, Ghosh had made his screenwriting debut.[1][2][3] He made his directorial debut in 2014 with the critically acclaimed Hrid Majharey, a Bengali feature film starring Abir Chatterjee and Raima Sen.[4][5] Inspired by certain iconic plays of William Shakespeare, it was the first film in the Bengali language based on the works of the Bard and was presented as a tribute on his 450th Birth Anniversary.[6][7] His second film Rongberonger Korhi was an anthology of four short films woven around the theme of money and its relationship with human beings. It featured National Award-winning actor Rituparna Sengupta, veteran cine star Chiranjeet Chakraborty, critically acclaimed actors Ritwick Chakraborty, Soham Chakraborty, Kharaj Mukherjee, Arunima Ghosh, Arjun Chakrabarty and others.[8][9] It became a widely acclaimed film on release in 2018, before doing the festival rounds in Dubai, Dhaka, London, and nationally at Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad.[10][11][12][13][14][15] In 2019, Ghosh released his third feature film, the hugely successful Ahaa Re featuring Bangladeshi actor Arifin Shuvoo, Rituparna Sengupta, Amrita Chattopadhyay, Paran Bandopadhyay, Deepankar De, Shakuntala Barua, Bangladeshi Cinema film actor Alamgir in a special appearance as a restaurant owner. The film made it to a coveted list of 25 all-time great Asian films about food, compiled by international film web magazine Asian Movie Pulse.[16][17][18][19] Ghosh's fourth feature film Mahishasur Marddini - A Night to Remember featuring his muse Rituparna Sengupta along with Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chattopadhyay and a bunch of young theatre actors, released in 2022 and is touted as his boldest work till date in which he experiments with form and style, combining the elements of theatre and cinema. The film was screened at the Film and Television Institute of India, Jawaharlal Nehru University, Jamia Millia Islamia, University of Hyderabad, English and Foreign Languages University, University of Kerala, SNDT Women's University, Pondicherry University, IIT Bombay (Indian Institute of Technology - Bombay), Indian Institute of Science Education and Research, Kolkata and Tata Institute of Social Sciences.[20][21][22] The Indian People's Theatre Association, Kollam District Committee, Kerala, screened the film in August 2023. Earlier, it became the first Indian feature film to screen at any theatre festival anywhere in India when it played at the 21st Habitat Theatre Festival, 2022, organized by the India Habitat Centre, New Delhi.[23][24][25]
- ^ "Seven years of Iti Mrinalini". The Times of India. 29 July 2018.
- ^ "Interview with Ranjan Ghosh: I have an enormous interest to explore the human condition, and I guess I have imbibed this from Ray-Ghatak-Sen". [1]. 5 February 2020.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "Script is King in any film". Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 12 November 2010.
- ^ "Love, and jealousy, 450 years after the Bard – The Times of India". The Times of India. 4 August 2014.
- ^ "Many Bengali films are said to be inspired by Bard's works". Business Standard India. Press Trust of India. 13 July 2014.
- ^ "Abir-Raima to pair up for the first time". The Times of India. 4 February 2013. Archived from the original on 7 December 2013. Retrieved 16 June 2013.
- ^ "Celebrating Shakespeare in Style". Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
- ^ "Upcoming Bengali film Rong Beronger Kori announced, Shooting in progress". sholoanabangaliana.in. 12 April 2018. Archived from the original on 29 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "Announcement of Bengali film Rong Beronger Kori". bangla.eenaduindia.com. 12 April 2018.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "Rongberonger Korhi to be screened at the Dubai International Film Festival". The Times of India. 10 July 2018.
- ^ "Rongberonger Korhi is creating waves all around". The Times of India. 19 December 2018.
- ^ "Habitat Film Festival selects Ranjan Ghosh's movie Rongberonger Korhi". gulgal.com. 10 July 2018. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "There are a million similar stories everywhere because we are all connected: Filmmaker Ranjan Ghosh". cinestaan.com. 10 July 2018. Archived from the original on 10 July 2018.
- ^ "Rongberonger Korhi makes it to the Pune National Film Archive". The Times of India. 24 December 2018.
- ^ "Rongberonger Korhi". biffes.in. 19 March 2019. Archived from the original on 30 July 2021. Retrieved 18 January 2023.
- ^ "25 Great Asian Films about Food". asianmoviepulse.com. 28 May 2020.
- ^ "Ranjan Ghosh's Bengali crossover Ahaa Re is a gentle, hope-filled gastronomical romance". [2]. 1 August 2020.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "Ranjan Ghosh's Ahaa Re Starring Rituparna Sengupta, Arifin Shuvoo Is Chosen As Best Films About Food". [3]. 27 April 2020.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "Rituparna, Ranjan Ghosh talk about Ahaa Re ranking among great Asian films". [4]. 4 May 2020.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "JNU screening of 'Mahishasur Marddini' leaves Ranjan emotional". [5]. 16 December 2022.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "Ranjan Ghosh on Mahishasur Marddini's JNU screening". [6]. 16 December 2022.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "Special screening of upcoming Bengali feature film Mahishashur Mardini at JMI" (PDF). jmi.ac.in. 30 September 2022.
- ^ "Mahishasur Marddini to be screened at IHC Theatre Festival". [7]. 13 September 2022.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "The selection of Mahishasur Marddini at a prestigious theatre festival is pathbreaking: Rituparna Sengupta". [8]. 1 October 2022.
{{cite web}}: External link in|work= - ^ "Ranjan Ghosh: 'Mahishasur Marddini' getting selected at a prestigious theatre fest is really special". [9]. 14 September 2022.
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