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'''Ritesh Batra''' (born 12 June 1979) is an Indian filmmaker.
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Batra is widely known for his debut feature film ''[[The Lunchbox]]'' starring [[Irrfan Khan]], [[Nawazuddin Siddiqui]], and [[Nimrat Kaur]], which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and won Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Batra also won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature Film in 2014. ''The Lunchbox'' has been called the highest grossing foreign film in North America, Europe and Australia for the year of 2014 grossing over 25 Million USD/180 Crore INR.


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'''Ritesh Batra''' (born 12 June 1979) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Batra's Hindi-language debut feature film ''[[The Lunchbox]]'' premiered at the [[2013 Cannes Film Festival]] and won the Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Batra also won the [[Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2012|Toronto Film Critics Association Award]] for Best First Feature Film in [[Toronto Film Critics Association Awards 2014|2014]]. ''The Lunchbox'' was the [[List of highest-grossing non-English films|highest-grossing foreign film]] in North America, Europe and Australia for 2014 grossing over US$25 Million. The film was also nominated for a [[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language]] in [[68th British Academy Film Awards|2015]].
Batra was nominated for a [[British Academy of Film and Television Arts|BAFTA Award]] for ''The Lunchbox'' in the category Film Not in the English language in 2015.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://awards.bafta.org/keyword-search?keywords=Ritesh+Batra| title = BAFTA Awards Database| accessdate = March 29, 2017
| publisher = Bafta.org}}</ref>


He has directed the English-language film ''[[The Sense of an Ending (film)|The Sense of an Ending]]'', starring [[Jim Broadbent]]. The film is an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel ''[[The Sense of an Ending]]''.<ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.metacritic.com/movie/the-sense-of-an-ending/critic-reviews| title = ''The Sense of an Ending'' critic reviews| accessdate = March 29, 2017| publisher = Metacritic.com}}</ref>
He then directed the English-language film ''[[The Sense of an Ending (film)|The Sense of an Ending]]'' (2017), an adaptation of [[Julian Barnes]]’ [[Booker Prize]]-winning [[The Sense of an Ending|novel]]. 2017 also saw the release of Batra's ''[[Our Souls at Night]]'' on [[Netflix]]. Batra's latest film is ''[[Photograph (film)|Photograph]]'', released in 2019.
Ritesh has also directed [[Our Souls at Night (film)|Our Souls at Night]] starring Jane Fonda and Robert Redford.


==Early life and background==
==Early life and background==
Ritesh grew up in a middle-class family in Mumbai, India. His father Joginder Batra, worked in the Merchant Navy of India and his mother Manju Kapoor Batra, is a house wife. His elder sister Radhika Batra Shah runs a tea business.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.fridaymoviez.com/celebrity/biography/ritesh-batra |title=Biography - RITESH BATRA |publisher=Fridaymoviez.com |date= |accessdate=2017-03-29}}</ref> Ritesh completed his high school from AVM High School in Mumbai and later went to the United States to complete his higher studies.
Ritesh grew up in a middle-class family in Mumbai, India. His father Joginder Batra, worked in the Merchant Navy of India and his mother Manju Kapoor Batra, is a house wife. His elder sister Radhika Batra Shah runs a tea business.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.fridaymoviez.com/celebrity/biography/ritesh-batra |title=Biography - RITESH BATRA |publisher=Fridaymoviez.com |date= |access-date=2017-03-29 |archive-date=14 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160914003629/http://www.fridaymoviez.com/celebrity/biography/ritesh-batra |url-status=dead }}</ref> Ritesh completed his high school from AVM High School in Mumbai and later went to the United States to complete his higher studies.
Ritesh worked as a consultant at Deloitte after graduating from Drake University, Iowa in Economics. But after three years of working he went back to school to chase his childhood dream of filmmaking. He attended New York University but dropped out of the film school.
Ritesh worked as a consultant at Deloitte after graduating from Drake University, Iowa in Economics. But after three years of working he went back to school to chase his childhood dream of filmmaking. He attended New York University but dropped out of the film school.


==Career==
==Career==
Batra began his filmmaking career by writing and directing shorts. His Arab language short ''Café Regular, Cairo'', screened at over 40 international film festivals and won over 12 awards including Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) Best Film at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Best Film at German Star of India. Batra was part of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors lab with his project "Story of Ram" in 2009. He subsequently was made the Time Warner Story Telling Fellow at Sundance Film Festival and Annenberg Fellow at Sundance Film Academy. In 2011 Batra came to India to make a documentary on the lunchbox delivery system in Mumbai. It was this venture of Batra's which conceptualized his first feature film ''[[The Lunchbox]]'' (2013). He developed this project through the [[TorinoFilmLab]] Framework programme in 2012.
Batra began his filmmaking career by writing and directing shorts. His Arab language short ''Café Regular, Cairo'', screened at over 40 international film festivals and won over 12 awards including Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) Best Film at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Best Film at German Star of India. Batra was part of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors lab with his project "Story of Ram" in 2009. He subsequently was made the Time Warner Story Telling Fellow at Sundance Film Festival and Annenberg Fellow at Sundance Film Academy. In 2011 Batra returned to India to make a documentary on the lunchbox delivery system in Mumbai. It was this venture of Batra's which conceptualized his first feature film ''[[The Lunchbox]]'' (2013). He developed this project through the [[TorinoFilmLab]] Framework programme in 2012.


''The Lunchbox'' premiered at the Cannes Critics Week 2013 and won Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). At Cannes the movie prompted a bidding war. Sony Pictures Classic acquired the North American rights of the film. ''The Lunchbox'' has been nominated for 33 Awards and won 25 so far. In 2014, Batra founded his own production company PoeticLicense Motion Pictures and currently developing a slate of films.
''The Lunchbox'' premiered at the Cannes Critics Week 2013 and won Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). At Cannes the movie prompted a bidding war. Sony Pictures Classic acquired the North American rights to the film. ''The Lunchbox'' has been nominated for 33 Awards and won 25 so far. In 2014, Batra founded his own production company PoeticLicense Motion Pictures and is currently developing a slate of films.


==Filmography as director==
==Filmography as director==
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| rowspan="2"| 2013 || ''[[The Lunchbox]]'' || Feature Film
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| ''Masterchef''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Ritesh-Batra-uninterrupted-reveals-future-projects/articleshow/23394663.cms |title=Ritesh Batra uninterrupted, reveals future projects - Times of India |publisher=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2013-10-02 |accessdate=2017-03-29}}</ref> || Short Film
| ''Masterchef''<ref>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/entertainment/bollywood/news-interviews/Ritesh-Batra-uninterrupted-reveals-future-projects/articleshow/23394663.cms |title=Ritesh Batra uninterrupted, reveals future projects - Times of India |publisher=Timesofindia.indiatimes.com |date=2013-10-02 |access-date=2017-03-29}}</ref> || Short Film
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| rowspan="2" | 2017 || ''[[The Sense of an Ending (film)|The Sense of an Ending]]'' || Feature Film
| rowspan="2" | 2017 || ''[[The Sense of an Ending (film)|The Sense of an Ending]]'' || Feature Film
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| ''[[Our Souls at Night (film)|Our Souls at Night]]'' || Feature Film
| ''[[Our Souls at Night]]'' || Feature Film
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| 2019 || ''[[Photograph (film)|Photograph]]'' || Feature film
| 2019 || ''[[Photograph (film)|Photograph]]'' || Feature film
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==Awards==
==Awards==
* Time Warner Storytelling Fellow - Sundance Film Festival
* Time Warner Storytelling Fellow – Sundance Film Festival
* Annenberg Fellow - Sundance Film Institute
* Annenberg Fellow – Sundance Film Institute


''The Lunchbox'', 2013
''The Lunchbox'', 2013
* (Nominated) "[[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language|Film not in the English Language]]" - [[68th British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA 2015]]
* (Nominated) "[[BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language|Film not in the English Language]]" – [[68th British Academy Film Awards|BAFTA 2015]]
* Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail) - Cannes Film Festival
* Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail) – [[2015 Cannes Film Festival|Cannes Film Festival]]
* Best First Feature - Toronto Film Critics Association Award
* Best First Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association Award
* Best Director Award - Odessa International Film Festival
* Best Director Award – Odesa International Film Festival
* Church of Iceland Award - Reykjavik International Film Festival
* Church of Iceland Award – Reykjavik International Film Festival
* Best Screenplay - 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
* Best Screenplay – 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
* Best Screenplay - Asian Film Academy
* Best Screenplay – Asian Film Academy
* Best Screenplay - Asia Pacific Film Festival
* Best Screenplay – Asia Pacific Film Festival
* Jury Grand Prize - 7th [[Asia Pacific Screen Awards]]
* Jury Grand Prize – 7th [[Asia Pacific Screen Awards]]
* Best Screenplay - 7th [[Asia Pacific Screen Awards]]
* Best Screenplay – 7th [[Asia Pacific Screen Awards]]
* Muhr AsiaAfrica Special Mention - Dubai International Film Festival
* [[Muhr Awards|Muhr AsiaAfrica]] Special Mention – [[Dubai International Film Festival]]
* Best Film - Amazonas Film Festival, Brazil
* Best Film – Amazonas Film Festival, Brazil
* Canvas Audience Award - Ghent International Film Festival, Belgium
* Canvas Audience Award – Ghent International Film Festival, Belgium
* Audience Award - World Cinema Amsterdam
* Audience Award – World Cinema Amsterdam
* Best Director - International Festival Young Filmmakers of Saint-Jean-de-Luz
* Best Director – International Festival Young Filmmakers of Saint-Jean-de-Luz
* Audience Award - Belfast Film Festival, UK
* Audience Award – [[Belfast Film Festival]], UK
* Best Feature Film - Zagreb Golden Pram Award
* Best Feature Film – Zagreb Golden Pram Award


''Cafe Regular Cairo'', 2011
''Cafe Regular Cairo'', 2011
* Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) Best Film - International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
* Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) Best Film – International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
* Jury Special Mention - Tribeca Film Festival
* Jury Special Mention – Tribeca Film Festival
* Jury Special Mention - Chicago International Film Festival
* Jury Special Mention – Chicago International Film Festival
* Best Short Film - The Warp
* Best Short Film – The Warp
* Best Short Film - German Star of India
* Best Short Film – German Star of India
* Clipagem Trophy - Kinoforum - Brazil
* Clipagem Trophy – Kinoforum – Brazil
;Honours
;Honours
* Chief guest at 8th [[Filmsaaz]] where he was given lifetime membership of the prestigious University Film Club, Aligarh Muslim University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glamsham.com/movies/news/15/mar/news-lunchbox-director-riteshs-next-will-again-be-mumbai-based.asp |title=LUNCHBOX director Ritesh's next will again be Mumbai based! |publisher=glamsham.com |date=2015-03-23 |accessdate=2017-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://indiaeducationdiary.in/showEE.asp?newsid=34057 |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-09-11 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715201345/http://www.indiaeducationdiary.in/Showee.asp?newsid=34057 |archivedate=15 July 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amu.ac.in/about3.jsp?did=7978 |title=Aligarh Muslim University &#124;&#124; AMU News |publisher=Amu.ac.in |date= |accessdate=2017-03-29}}</ref>
* Chief guest at 8th [[Filmsaaz]] where he was given lifetime membership of the prestigious University Film Club, Aligarh Muslim University.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.glamsham.com/movies/news/15/mar/news-lunchbox-director-riteshs-next-will-again-be-mumbai-based.asp |title=LUNCHBOX director Ritesh's next will again be Mumbai based! |publisher=glamsham.com |date=2015-03-23 |access-date=2017-03-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://indiaeducationdiary.in/showEE.asp?newsid=34057 |title=Acclaimed film personalites attended AMU's eighth Annual International Film Festival |access-date=2015-09-11 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150715201345/http://www.indiaeducationdiary.in/Showee.asp?newsid=34057 |archive-date=15 July 2015 |df=dmy-all }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.amu.ac.in/about3.jsp?did=7978 |title=Aligarh Muslim University &#124;&#124; AMU News |publisher=Amu.ac.in |date= |access-date=2017-03-29}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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Latest revision as of 23:04, 23 April 2024

Ritesh Batra
Born (1979-06-12) 12 June 1979 (age 45)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
Alma materTisch School of Arts
Occupation(s)Film director
Screenwriter
Years active2008–present

Ritesh Batra (born 12 June 1979) is an Indian film director and screenwriter. Batra's Hindi-language debut feature film The Lunchbox premiered at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival and won the Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Batra also won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature Film in 2014. The Lunchbox was the highest-grossing foreign film in North America, Europe and Australia for 2014 grossing over US$25 Million. The film was also nominated for a BAFTA Award for Best Film Not in the English Language in 2015.

He then directed the English-language film The Sense of an Ending (2017), an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel. 2017 also saw the release of Batra's Our Souls at Night on Netflix. Batra's latest film is Photograph, released in 2019.

Early life and background

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Ritesh grew up in a middle-class family in Mumbai, India. His father Joginder Batra, worked in the Merchant Navy of India and his mother Manju Kapoor Batra, is a house wife. His elder sister Radhika Batra Shah runs a tea business.[1] Ritesh completed his high school from AVM High School in Mumbai and later went to the United States to complete his higher studies. Ritesh worked as a consultant at Deloitte after graduating from Drake University, Iowa in Economics. But after three years of working he went back to school to chase his childhood dream of filmmaking. He attended New York University but dropped out of the film school.

Career

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Batra began his filmmaking career by writing and directing shorts. His Arab language short Café Regular, Cairo, screened at over 40 international film festivals and won over 12 awards including Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) Best Film at International Short Film Festival Oberhausen and Best Film at German Star of India. Batra was part of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors lab with his project "Story of Ram" in 2009. He subsequently was made the Time Warner Story Telling Fellow at Sundance Film Festival and Annenberg Fellow at Sundance Film Academy. In 2011 Batra returned to India to make a documentary on the lunchbox delivery system in Mumbai. It was this venture of Batra's which conceptualized his first feature film The Lunchbox (2013). He developed this project through the TorinoFilmLab Framework programme in 2012.

The Lunchbox premiered at the Cannes Critics Week 2013 and won Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). At Cannes the movie prompted a bidding war. Sony Pictures Classic acquired the North American rights to the film. The Lunchbox has been nominated for 33 Awards and won 25 so far. In 2014, Batra founded his own production company PoeticLicense Motion Pictures and is currently developing a slate of films.

Filmography as director

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Year Film Category
2008 The Morning Ritual Short Film
2010 Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi Short Film
2011 Café Regular Cairo Short Film
2013 The Lunchbox Feature Film
Masterchef[2] Short Film
2017 The Sense of an Ending Feature Film
Our Souls at Night Feature Film
2019 Photograph Feature film

Awards

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  • Time Warner Storytelling Fellow – Sundance Film Festival
  • Annenberg Fellow – Sundance Film Institute

The Lunchbox, 2013

  • (Nominated) "Film not in the English Language" – BAFTA 2015
  • Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail) – Cannes Film Festival
  • Best First Feature – Toronto Film Critics Association Award
  • Best Director Award – Odesa International Film Festival
  • Church of Iceland Award – Reykjavik International Film Festival
  • Best Screenplay – 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
  • Best Screenplay – Asian Film Academy
  • Best Screenplay – Asia Pacific Film Festival
  • Jury Grand Prize – 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
  • Best Screenplay – 7th Asia Pacific Screen Awards
  • Muhr AsiaAfrica Special Mention – Dubai International Film Festival
  • Best Film – Amazonas Film Festival, Brazil
  • Canvas Audience Award – Ghent International Film Festival, Belgium
  • Audience Award – World Cinema Amsterdam
  • Best Director – International Festival Young Filmmakers of Saint-Jean-de-Luz
  • Audience Award – Belfast Film Festival, UK
  • Best Feature Film – Zagreb Golden Pram Award

Cafe Regular Cairo, 2011

  • Critics Prize (FIPRESCI) Best Film – International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
  • Jury Special Mention – Tribeca Film Festival
  • Jury Special Mention – Chicago International Film Festival
  • Best Short Film – The Warp
  • Best Short Film – German Star of India
  • Clipagem Trophy – Kinoforum – Brazil
Honours
  • Chief guest at 8th Filmsaaz where he was given lifetime membership of the prestigious University Film Club, Aligarh Muslim University.[3][4][5]

References

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  1. ^ "Biography - RITESH BATRA". Fridaymoviez.com. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  2. ^ "Ritesh Batra uninterrupted, reveals future projects - Times of India". Timesofindia.indiatimes.com. 2 October 2013. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  3. ^ "LUNCHBOX director Ritesh's next will again be Mumbai based!". glamsham.com. 23 March 2015. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
  4. ^ "Acclaimed film personalites attended AMU's eighth Annual International Film Festival". Archived from the original on 15 July 2015. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  5. ^ "Aligarh Muslim University || AMU News". Amu.ac.in. Retrieved 29 March 2017.
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