It appears that the golden era of Bollywood (60’s) is in the
air. The passing of legendary ‘regional’ global filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh
yesterday morning at his Indrani Park, Anwar Shah Road, a South Calcutta residence has and will leave a void in
expressive cinema. Cine lovers, the LGBT’s,
silent admirers like me (I’me sure there are bigger fans too).
BLACKJACK- 21/21
21 movies in hindi and Bengali in 21 years (Hirer Angti (The
Diamond Ring) - 1992 to Chitrangada in 2012), this technically translates into
one movie in a year. Quite a quality, what I am looking forward to see is Satyanweshi and another
hindi film called Sunglass- it never got released and was produced by Arindam Chowdhuri’s
Planman in 2008.Twitter was buzzing whole day yesterday and he made Kahaani director Sujoy Ghosh, to act in his upcoming crime thriller Satyanweshi. The talented director and now actor (only for this film) tweeted, sujoy ghosh @sujoy_g 2h “rituparno ghosh had about a few million questions that he wanted to ask satyajit ray. i can imagine whats happening up there right now.”
The Mad Men in RituDa’s Life
Rituparno Ghosh studied at South Point and completed Economics from Jadavpur University, Calcutta. Rituda dabbled with Advertising and prior filmmaking his worked as a copywriter from the Ballygunge Circular Road based agency, Response. The Asian Paint Sharad Samman (managed by the then O&M – Ogilvy and Mather, Kolkata, India’s office) is near legendary till date, quotes Derek O Brien in his blog.
The Last Tweet
The blog is a small tribute to a brave human being who did
contribute not only in regional cinema, but was able to influence his
counterparts living elsewhere in Mumbai, Berlin, Delhi or New York. I saw Ritu
for the first time at Nandan and most recently at the India Habitat Center, the
year was 2011. 28th May, 2
day before he left us read “Surprising
that the brooding prince of Indian cinema Guru Dutt stayed in the same palatial
mansion to his film sahib biwi aur ghulam” Saw Noukadubi
(Boat Wreck), 2011 at the closing day.
His last tweet on 28th May- two days before he left us read “Surprising that the brooding prince of Indian
cinema Guru Dutt stayed in the same palatial mansion to his film sahib biwi aur
ghulam”
Ghosh told about Tagore (2012) "What comes through is
what a lonely man Tagore was — from childhood to old age. There is no one in
his life to share even his success with him. It's the journey of a lonely
traveller.
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