Megastar Amitabh Bachchan remembered Rituparno Ghosh, one of India’s most versatile filmmakers in the post-Satyajit Ray generation, and the megastar says “he left too soon”.
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Cinema with bold depiction of sexuality against social themes.
- Amitabh, 74, worked with Ghosh in “The Last Lear”, which completed ten years of its release on Tuesday.
- The “Piku” actor on Monday night took to Twitter to remember the filmmaker,
- who started a new wave in Bengali cinema exploring human relationships with bold depiction of sexuality against social themes.
- “10 years of ‘The Last Lear’ My first film in English made by the iconic Rituparno Ghosh. He left us too soon,” Amitabh tweeted.
- In 2013, Ghosh died of a cardiac arrest at his city residence in Kolkata. He
- was the maker of acclaimed and award-winning Bengali films like
- “Bariwali”, “Asukh”, “Utsab”, “Shubho Mahurat”, “Chokher Bali”,
- “Dosar”, “Shob Charitro Kalponik” and “Abohoman”.
- Ghosh’s last released film was “Chitrangada” (2012), while a few days before his death, he finished shooting a crime thriller “Satyanveshi”.
- He also directed two Hindi movies – “Raincoat” in 2004 — that got a National Award and “Sunglass” in 2012.
- Furthermore, Bachchan next will be seen along with Aamir Khan in Vijay Krishna Acharya’s ‘Thugs Of Hindostan’,
- and in Umesh Shukla’s next film along with Rishi Kapoor in ‘102 Not Out’.