Ritesh Batra was born on 12 June 1979 and is an Indian film director and screenwriter.
14 Facts About Ritesh Batra
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Ritesh Batra won the Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best First Feature Film in 2014.
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Ritesh Batra then directed the English-language film The Sense of an Ending, an adaptation of Julian Barnes' Booker Prize-winning novel.
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Ritesh Batra grew up in a middle-class family in Mumbai, India.
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Ritesh Batra's father Joginder Batra, worked in the Merchant Navy of India and his mother Manju Kapoor Batra, is a house wife.
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Ritesh Batra completed his high school from AVM High School in Mumbai and later went to the United States to complete his higher studies.
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Ritesh Batra worked as a consultant at Deloitte after graduating from Drake University, Iowa in Economics.
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Ritesh Batra attended New York University but dropped out of the film school.
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Ritesh Batra began his filmmaking career by writing and directing shorts.
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Ritesh Batra was part of the Sundance Screenwriters and Directors lab with his project "Story of Ram" in 2009.
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Ritesh Batra subsequently was made the Time Warner Story Telling Fellow at Sundance Film Festival and Annenberg Fellow at Sundance Film Academy.
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In 2011 Ritesh Batra returned to India to make a documentary on the lunchbox delivery system in Mumbai.
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Ritesh Batra developed this project through the TorinoFilmLab Framework programme in 2012.
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In 2014, Ritesh Batra founded his own production company PoeticLicense Motion Pictures and is currently developing a slate of films.