Ranjan Ghosh

Ranjan Ghosh
Born	Calcutta, India
Occupation	Screenwriter / Director
Years active	2009 - present

Ranjan K Ghosh (Bengali: রঞ্জন ঘোষ Rônjôn Ghosh) is a Bengali filmmaker based out of Kolkata, India. He made his directorial debut in 2014 with the critically acclaimed Hrid Majharey, a Bengali feature film starring Abir Chatterjee and Raima Sen.

Inspired by certain iconic plays of William Shakespeare, it was the first film in the Bengali language based on the works of the Bard and was presented as a tribute on his 450th Birth Anniversary.

The movie was screened at the New York University Tisch School of the Arts in 2015, and was included in their PhD in Cinema Studies (Shakespeare and Indian Cinema). Earlier in 2014, it had earned a rare recommendation from Film London in its list of world cinema based on Shakespearean plays. In another major achievement, the film and its screenplay were included in the UGC Literature Archive through the Shakespeare in Bengal project conducted by Jadavpur University.

Ghosh had risen to prominence in 2011, by becoming the first and the only screenwriter, acclaimed director Aparna Sen had collaborated with in her illustrious career till date. Ghosh had made his screenwriting debut co-authoring Iti Mrinalini, the 2011 film that had also marked the acclaimed director's return to Bengali cinema after more than a decade.

Brought up in a Bengali family in a satellite township in West Bengal, Ranjan K Ghosh studied at St. Xavier's School, Durgapur and at BC Institution. Thereafter, he moved to Calcutta to take up Physics at Jadavpur University. Very soon he left his higher studies to become a mariner, and embarked on a career that would take him almost all around the world for the next four years. He holds a Degree in Nautical Sciences from The University of Mumbai. In 2007, Ranjan bid adieu to his sea-life and joined Mumbai based film school Whistling Woods International to study filmmaking. He graduated in 2009 with a major in screenwriting.

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