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Ritesh Batra (born June 12, 1979) is a BAFTA awards (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) nominated writer-director. Ritesh is widely known for his debut feature film ''The Lunchbox'' starring Irrfan Khan, Nawazuddin Siddiqui and Nimrat Kaur premiered at the Cannes Film Festival in 2013 and won Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). Ritesh also won Toronto Film Critics Association Award for best First Feature Film in 2014. The Lunchbox has been credited with highest grossing foreign film in America, Europe and Australia for the year of 2014 grossing over 25 Million USD/ 180 Crore INR. He is directing an English-language film The Sense of an Ending, starring Jim Broadbent(Academy Award Winner). The film is an adaptation of Julian Barnes’ Booker Prize-winning novel The Sense of an Ending. ==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. Ritesh completed his high school from AVM High School in Mumbai and later went to United States of America 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.. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Ritesh Batra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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