“But, my city, I know, can neither handle me nor ignore me,” filmmaker Rituparno Ghosh had said in a recent interview. From the subjects he chose to explore in his films to the way he dressed, Ghosh was always urging us to reconsider the stereotypes that we take for granted as normal.
But from the grief and shock evident in the reactions to his passing on May 30, it is obvious that for all the thorn that Ghosh may have been in convention’s side, the filmmaker was also much admired and beloved.
(This story appears in the 28 June, 2013 issue of Forbes India. To visit our Archives, click here.)
Original thinkers are vanishingly rare in this nation of 1.3 billion people. Among present-day Indian moviemakers, his movies were among the very few one could watch from beginning to end.
on Jun 24, 2013