At a time when Bengali cinema was literally gasping for breath, having been dragged down over two decades to the depths of mediocrity, Rituparno Ghosh jumped into the scene like a savior. Bengal often prides itself on being the birthplace of Ray, along with Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. Add to that one more name – Rituparno Ghosh. When he broke into the film world, the state of Bengali cinema was all but dead. The evergreen Uttam-Suchitra days were gone, cheap remakes of Southern films were popular, the music was abysmal, so the educated Bengali people started to avoid the Bengali movie theatres. This is when Rituparno Ghosh launched his career with ‘Heerer Angti’ and ‘Unishe April’. And the ‘Bangali bhadraloks’ were enthralled. They were more than happy to flood back to the theatres. Bengali cinema had found a new lifeline. And the rest is history. Here we have listed some of the groundbreaking films made by Rituparno Ghosh, paying our homage to the master filmmaker on his 6th death anniversary.
At a time when Bengali cinema was literally gasping for breath, having been dragged down over two decades to the depths of mediocrity, Rituparno Ghosh jumped into the scene like a savior. Bengal often prides itself on being the birthplace of Ray, along with Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen. Add to that one more name – Rituparno Ghosh. When he broke into the film world, the state of Bengali cinema was all but dead. The evergreen Uttam-Suchitra days were gone, cheap remakes of Southern films were popular, the music was abysmal, so the educated Bengali people started to avoid the Bengali movie theatres. This is when Rituparno Ghosh launched his career with ‘Heerer Angti’ and ‘Unishe April’. And the ‘Bangali bhadraloks’ were enthralled. They were more than happy to flood back to the theatres. Bengali cinema had found a new lifeline. And the rest is history. Here we have listed some of the groundbreaking films made by Rituparno Ghosh, paying our homage to the master filmmaker on his 6th death anniversary.