Rituparno Ghosh, the master filmmaker, had tried his hands at acting, too. But, not many people know about the film in which he made his acting debut. Well, the director had made his first screen presence in a film titled ‘
Katha Deithilli Ma Ku’, an
Oriya film that was released in 2003.
Directed by
Himanshu Parija, it was a story about a boxer. Interestingly,
Rituparna Sengupta was the female lead opposite
Siddhanta Mahapatra in the film. This was also a remake of the 2003
Telugu
movie ‘Amma Nanna O Tamila Ammayi’.
Rituparno Ghosh, the young avant-garde director of Bengali cinema in the nineties, literally heralded the current
Renaissance of Bengali
cinema. He ushered a movement in which filmmakers such as
Kaushik Ganguly, Anjan Dutta and
Srijit Mukherji among others propelled Bengali cinema back into the elite class of
Satyajit Ray and
Mrinal
Sen movies. With Rituparno, Bengal returned to the map of international film awards. These new-age directors managed to create a niche multiplex audience who after a long time rediscovered the enriched culture of Bengali literature, especially poetry.
Today it seems more and more relevant to acknowledge how he achieved an enviable fusion between high art and commercial success which only a few filmmakers in Bengal enjoyed with such consistency.
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