[8][9] It became a widely acclaimed film on release in 2018, before doing the festival rounds in Dubai, Dhaka, London, and nationally at Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, Pune and Hyderabad.
[10][11][12][13][14][15] In 2019, Ghosh released his third feature film, the hugely successful Ahaa Re featuring Bangladeshi actor Arifin Shuvoo, Rituparna Sengupta, Amrita Chattopadhyay, Paran Bandopadhyay, Deepankar De, Shakuntala Barua, Bangladeshi Cinema film actor Alamgir in a special appearance as a restaurant owner.
[16][17][18][19] Ghosh's fourth feature film Mahishasur Marddini - A Night to Remember featuring his muse Rituparna Sengupta along with Saswata Chatterjee, Parambrata Chattopadhyay and a bunch of young theatre actors, released in 2022 and is touted as his boldest work till date in which he experiments with form and style, combining the elements of theatre and cinema.
[23][24][25] Brought up in a Bengali family in a satellite township in West Bengal, Ranjan Ghosh studied at St. Xavier's School, Durgapur and at BC Institution.
[26] In 2007, Ranjan bid adieu to his sea life and joined Mumbai-based film school Whistling Woods International to study filmmaking.
[29] Post Iti Mrinalini, Ghosh had collaborated with Prakash Jha, who was supposed to make his debut as a producer for Bengali films.
Ranjan Ghosh made his directorial debut with the critically acclaimed Abir Chatterjee-Raima Sen starrer Hrid Majharey in July, 2014.
The last time was in 1979 when veteran filmmaker Tapan Sinha partly shot his Children's adventure film Sabuj Dwiper Raja in Port Blair.
[36] In another major achievement, the film and its screenplay went on to be included in the UGC Literature Archive through the Shakespeare in Bengal project conducted by Jadavpur University.
Prominent international movies in the exclusive list of nine were A Double Life (US, 1947), All Night Long (UK, 1962), Catch My Soul (US, 1974), O (US, 2001), Omkara (India, 2006), among others.
[51] It screened in the Indian Vista section of the 17th Third Eye Asian Film Festival, Mumbai, 2018, and reportedly got an overwhelming response from a full house and a 3* critics' rating.
The film also had veterans Paran Bandopadhyay, Dipankar De, and Shakuntala Barua, as also young actors Amrita Chattopadhyay and Anuvab Pal.
[58] The film had travelled to international and Indian festivals across the world – London, Kunming, Singapore, Melbourne, New York, Dallas, Boston, Cincinnati, Dhaka, and back home in Delhi, Mumbai, Pune, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, and Guwahati among others.