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Ruchir Joshi
Ruchir Joshi
Ruchir grew up in Lake Gardens, in the south Calcutta of the 1960s and 1970s. Having developed an almost obsessive passion for painting, photography and writing, at the age of 17 Ruchir became hooked to cinema when he saw Michelangelo Antonioni's The Passenger and then a couple of films by Satyajit Ray. In 1977, Ruchir joined the media course in Chitrabani that was being taught by the great maverick intellectual and provocateur Deepak Majumdar. With him in the course were also the somewhat older Gautam Chatterjee, who was soon to start the group Mohiner Ghoraguli and would go on to make feature films, and Sheba ...
Deep Focus
Filmography
- Eleven Miles/ Egaro Mile (1991)
- Memories of Milk City (1991)
- Tales from Planet Kolkata (1993)
- Dream Before Wicket (1994)
- A Mercedes for Ashish (2005)
- My Rio, My Tokio (2010)
Awards
- Eleven Miles/ Egaro Mile won the Prix Joris Ivens, one of the festival's two chief awards at the Cinema du Reel, Paris, in 1991.
- Memories of Mild City won the main prize at the Oberhausen Film Festival in 1992.
- Tales from Planet Kolkata won the FICCI prize at the Oberhausen Film Festival in 1994. It also won the Special Mention of the Jury at the Mannheim Film Festival in 1994.
Did You Know?
Alongside the film work, since 1983, Ruchir has maintained a career as a freelance journalist, columnist and essayist. His columns have been published in The Telegraph (Kolkata), The Hindu (Delhi, Chennai), The Times of India (Mumbai, all-India), Hindustan Times, Indian Express, and several magazines in India and abroad.
Research by: Sugata Guha
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