Rituparno Ghosh

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Lovely work Pratim, that must have taken you ages to complete!, love the different colours for each of these faces, and each on with a different expression,

Thanks Ros P....it takes 5 hr. 32 minutes .....

A TRIBUTE TO FAMOUS FILM DIRECTOR OF WEST BENGAL INDIA...RITUPARNO GHOSH ...Rituparno Ghosh (31 August 1963 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian Bengali film director. After pursuing a degree in economics he started his career as a creative artist in advertisement agency. In 1992, his debut film Hirer Angti released. In 1994 his next film Unishe April released which won National Film Award for Best Feature Film. Ghosh was a self-confessed Satyajit Ray fan and inspired other filmmakers like Mithaq Kazimi who adapted Gosh's film Raincoat in English. In his career spanning almost two decades he won 12 national and many international awards. Ghosh died on 30 May 2013 in Kolkata after succumbing to a heart attack. Ghosh was born on 31 August 1963 in Kolkata. Both his parents were related to films, his father Sunil Ghosh was a documentary film maker and a painter.[6] He completed his schooling from South Point High School, and obtained a degree in economics from Jadavpur University, Kolkata. Ghosh was considered as an icon of the LGBT community of India. He explored transgender lifestyle during the last several years of his life, and was one of the very few openly homosexual persons in Indian cinema. He made his first screen presence in an Oriya film Katha Deithilli Ma Ku which was directed by Himanshu Parija and released in 2003. In 2011 he acted in two Bengali films— Arekti Premer Golpo directed by Kaushik Ganguly and Memories in March directed by Sanjoy Nag. Arekti Premer Golpo dealt with homosexual relationship. Chitrangada (2012) was Ghosh's last released film. The film was loosely based on Rabindranath Tagore's work Chitrangada. This film received the special jury award at the 60th National Film Awards.