Rituparno Ghosh was a Bengali film director. He won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.He began directing in advertising. In 1992, he made a low-key film debut with a children's feature titled Hirer Angti (The Diamond Ring). His second movie Unishe April (19 April) won the 1995 National Film Award. Since then, Ghosh has directed Dahan, Utsab, Chokher Bali, Asukh, Bariwali, Antarmahal, and Raincoat (in Hindi). He won the National Award for best direction for his Bengali film "Abohoman" starring Jishu Sengupta, Ananya Chatterjee, Dipankar Dey, and Mamata Shankar in 2010. His cinema traversed the entire gamut from intimate women-and-relationship-centric chamber dramas set in urban middle-class Kolkata to adaptations of classic and contemporary literature, including Tagore to unflinching explorations of alternative sexuality and gender issues. Also, one would be hard-pressed to recall another Indian film-maker who addressed film-making and the performing arts in his films with such regularity. It is as if he was questioning and critiquing his artistic self through these explorations of the psyche and attitude of people involved in films.