Rituparno Ghosh Passed Away

on May 30, 2013

Famous Bengali film maker Rituparno Ghosh has passed away this morning. This national award winning director was suffering from pancreatitis and passed away at his residence around 7.30 a.m . Rituparno Ghosh was born and brought up in Kolkata. Both his parents were related to films, his father was a documentary film maker. He completed his schooling from South Point High School, and pursued economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata.

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Rituparno started his career in advertising and his directional debut was Hirer Angti (The diamond ring). He won the National film award for Best Director for his Bengali film Abohoman starring Jishu Sengupta, Ananya Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey and Mamata Shankar. He made his first screen presence in an Oriya film Katha Deithilli Ma Ku which is directed by Himanshu Parija and released in 2003.