An iconic filmmaker and inheritor of the legendary Satyajit Ray's legacy, Rituparno Ghosh was one of the finest auteurs to emerge out of contemporary Bengal. From the very outset, Ghosh displayed a strong feminist sensibility which later evolved into a radical queer politics. This volume analyses his films, his craft, his stardom and his contribution to sexual identity politics.

Introduction. Part I 1. Invoking Love, Death and an Elsewhere: Searching the auteur in Rituparno Ghosh's Abohoman Sangeeta Datta 2. Rituparno Ghosh and the Pursuit of Freedom Wimal Dissanayake 3. Locating Rituparno Ghosh in Tollywood Anugyan Nag 4. 'Just Like a Film Star!' The Style of Being Rituparno Ghosh Sumit Dey 5. The Endangered City in Rituparno Ghosh's Early Cinema of Confinement Sayandeb Chowdhury 6. Borrowing, Becoming, and the Question of the Self in Shob Choritro Kalponik Srimati Mukherjee 7. En-gendering the detective: Of love, longing and feminine follies Madhuja Mukherjee 8. Closeted Desires and Open Secrets: Raincoat and Noukadubi Richard Allen 9. Beyond the Binary: (Trans)gender Narratives and Class Distinction in Rituparno Ghosh's later films Aniruddha Dutta 10. Kissed on One Cheek and Slapped on the Other: Rituparno Ghosh's Chitrangada as an Allegory of Oppositional Reading Daisy Hasan 11. A Room of Hir Own: The Queer Aesthetics of Rituparno Ghosh Kaustav Bakshi and Parjanya Sen PART II 12. Rituparno Ghosh in conversation with Shohini Ghosh 13. Rituparno Ghosh in conversation with Kaustav Bakshi 14. Cast and Crew Speak with Sangeeta Datta and Rohit K Dasgupta

Sangeeta Datta is an independent writer, film-maker and cultural commentator, based in London.

Kaustav Bakshi is Assistant Professor, Department of English, Jadavpur University, India.

Rohit K. Dasgupta is Lecturer, Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton, UK.