- After quitting a 14-year career in advertising with one of the top International agencies and post launching his career as an award-winning commercial and music video director, Riingo Banerjee quickly emerged as one of Tollywood's most experimental and "technology driven" feature film writer / director / cinematographer / editor.
He was the first in Eastern India to introduce Digital Cinema in 2004 in Eastern India. Characterized by his aggressive visual style and high-contrast color palettes in the Digital Cinema format, backed by subjects ranging from the high octane action commercials to children adventure epics to romantic love stories to murder mysteries to real life biographies, his films have earned a cinematic signature - The Riingo Type Film !
Now established as one of the industry's elite filmmakers, Riingo has been dazzling audiences since the premiere of his first feature film, Kranti, produced by Shree Venkatesh Films, starring Jeet and Ashis Vidyarthi, in 2006. Since then, his films have been showcased in multiple International and National Film Festivals.
He has his production company Ring A Bell Films which has its own complete post production set up.- IMDb mini biography by: https://www.veethi.com/india-people/riingo_banerjee-profile-9256-14.htm - Started off as an advertising creative professional for one of the top ad agencies in the world (Grey Worldwide) and post his 14 year advertising career, he got into full time film making and in the last 24 years, he was made over 250 television commercials for both National and International brands, 26 feature films and a number of web series for the top portals of Eastern India.
Many of his films have been selected and awarded in Film Festivals worldwide and he is one of the very few who helm the departments of Scripting, Cinematography, Edits, Grading, Scoring and Direction.
His company Ring A Bell Films who he partners with his producer Ohendrila Banerjee is one of the leading content makers for OTTs in Eastern India.- IMDb mini biography by: BeeAar
- SpouseShami Kaiser(1999 - 2001) (divorced)
- He has is the writer, cinematographer, editor, colorist and the director of all his films till date (2019).
- Yanni's music has been his source of strength during the year he spent in the hospital recovering from the near fatal accident in 2001. After 13 years, he did manage to meet Yanni during his India tour in 2014.
- In 2014, four of his feature films were showcased in the Swedish Indian Film Festival held at Stockholm. The films were Ray, Ghuri, Shada Kalo Aabchaa and Na Hannyate. Till date, this is the highest number of films featured of a single director in any festivals held in Sweden.
- His son June, studies psychology, is a poet and a self taught guitarist.
- He loves to drive and most of his film ideas have come while him driving down the highways of India.
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