Tag Archives: Remembering Rituparno Ghosh

“Will you suffer me?” Is the most poignant love proposal I have ever heard in an Indian movie. When heroin addict Partho hid his tear-laden face in Rudro’s bosom he appealed to him to accept him with all his flaws, his liabilities and his weaknesses. Unconditionally and unbiasedly. And Rudro did. Trapped in the body of a man, his heart...

To Rituparno Ghosh’s credit he brought a section of the Bengali audience back to the cinema halls – to me this is his greatest contribution to Bengali cinema and any history of it will remain largely incomplete unless this due tribute...