---
name: "Ritesh Batra"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/ritesh-batra"
fi1m_id: "ritesh-batra"
imdb_id: "nm3592235"
tmdb_id: 1117026
wikidata_id: "Q15814128"
roles: ["Producer","Director"]
born: "12 June 1979"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 0
updated: "2026-10-01T23:23:44.098123+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Ritesh Batra

## Identity

Ritesh Batra

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/ritesh-batra
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** ritesh-batra
- **IMDb ID:** nm3592235
- **TMDB ID:** 1117026
- **Wikidata ID:** Q15814128
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritesh_Batra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15814128, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3592235/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1117026

Producer and director. Born 12 June 1979 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer, Director
- **Born:** 12 June 1979, Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ritesh_Batra, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q15814128, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm3592235/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1117026

## Coming up

- *Unaccustomed Earth* (2026-12-17), Director

## Biography

Ritesh Batra is an Indian film director and screenwriter. His debut feature *The Lunchbox* (2013), which he also wrote, premiered at the Cannes Film Festival Critics’ Week and won the Rail d’Or (Grand Golden Rail). The film received a BAFTA nomination for Best Film Not in the English Language in 2015 and was the highest-grossing foreign-language film in North America, Europe and Australia in 2014.

Batra has since directed the English-language films *Our Souls at Night* (2017) and *The Sense of an Ending* (2017), an adaptation of Julian Barnes’s novel, as well as *Photograph* (2019). He was born in Mumbai in 1979 and studied economics at Drake University before working in film.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, theguardian.com, hollywoodreporter.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Lunchbox* (2013), Fi1m 75, Executive Producer, Screenplay, Director — [page](https://film.one/film/the-lunchbox.md)

## Complete filmography (10)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *Unaccustomed Earth* (2026), series, Director
- *Photograph* (2019), Director, Producer, Writer
- *Our Souls at Night* (2017), Director
- *The Sense of an Ending* (2017), Director
- *Masterchef* (2014), Director, Writer
- *The Lunchbox* (2013), Director, Executive Producer, Screenplay — Fi1m 75, [page](https://film.one/film/the-lunchbox.md)
- *Café Regular, Cairo* (2011), Director, Writer
- *Gareeb Nawaz's Taxi* (2010), Director, Writer
- *The Morning Ritual* (2008), Producer, Writer, Director
- *Super Full*, as Producer

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