Season in the sun: Putting the spotlight back on Rituparno Ghosh

Hindustan Times | ByAnanya Ghosh

Oct 20, 2019 01:37 AM IST

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Journalist-turned-director Ram Kamal Mukherjee’s latest movie is a UN-endorsed tribute to the late queer National Award winning Bengali director, and the fight for LGBTQIA+ rights

Rituparno Ghosh, the late 12-time National Award winning director who gave Bengali cinema a much-needed facelift and is one of the most famous and critically-acclaimed Bengali directors of the post-Ray era, has sadly been relegated to just ‘that Raincoat director’ even to the ‘knowledgeable’ Bollywood audience. For the mainstream, the name doesn’t really ring a bell.

Celina Jaitly Haag makes her Bollywood comeback with Ram Kamal Mukherjee’s homage to late Rituparno Ghosh(Vickky Idnaani photography)

Multiple National Award-winning director, late Rituparno Ghosh, was one of the first celebrities in India to have come out as queer

“There is still a lack of understanding about the LGBTQIA+ community and the biggest block is that we are still not ready to educate ourselves about homosexuality”