Ritesh Batra

Ritesh Batra

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Ritesh Batra Profile

  • Name:
  • Ritesh Batra
  • Spouse:
  • Claudia Munoz

Ritesh Batra Biography

Ritesh Batra is a young director of Bollywood who created great ripples in Indian film industry through his debut feature film, The Lunch Box. The movie received such a warm response from Film Critics as well as audience and received remarks as the “Best feature Film in Hindi made in the recent times”. Majority of film critics gave the movie, 4, 4.5 and 5 points out of 5. Rotten Tomatoes gave the film a score of 95% based on reviews from 81 critics. BollyMovieReviewz and Review Gang also gave their best points ever. The film was screened at International Critics' Week at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Though the movie was the first choice of many critics as India’s Official entry to 86th Academy Awards Best Foreign Film Category, Gujarati film ‘The Good Road’ was sent instead.

 

He was born in a middle class family in Bandra, Mumbai in 1979. His childhood was spent in Mumbai itself. His father is in the merchant navy and his mother is a yoga teacher. Though he attended a film course at New York University he dropped it after a short period. He also worked as a consultant in US for 3 years. He married a Mexican lady, Claudia Munoz in 2009. A daughter was born to them in 2012 while the shooting of his debut feature film was going on. Before trying his luck in Bollywood he has directed a few short films also.

 

The Morning Ritual (2008) was his first short film, followed by Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi, Cafe Regular Cairo and Francophonie. His short films have been screened at many international film festivals and have won many awards. ‘Lunch Box’ received numerous film awards including Best Film and Best Debut director at Filmfare. The director started his research on famous "dabbawalas" of Mumbai and presented Lunch Box as a love story between two matured people, happened due to rare mix up of lunchboxes. Lead roles were played by Irrfan Khan, Nimrat Kaur and Nawassudin Siddiqui.

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Updated: May 12, 2014

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