Rahul Bose (Bengali: রাহূল বোস; Hindi: राहुल बोस; Urdu: رہُل بوس), an Indianactor , a social activist and rugby union player, was born on July 271967 to Rupen and Kumud Bose. His elder sister Anuradha is married to Tariq Ansari, owner and director of "Mid-Day Multimedia", a multiple media conglomerate in Mumbai, India. Rahul Bose spent his childhood in Kolkata, West Bengal then moved to Mumbai with his family. He is an alumnus of the Cathedral and John Connon School in Mumbai, and graduated from Sydenham College. Rahul spent time doing theatre, boxing, and playing rugby, during his college days. His mother introduced him to boxing and rugby union. He plays international rugby in the National "Orange Indian Rugby Team". He quit his job at "Rediffusion" as a creative director to become a serious actor, writer, and director. English, August directed by Dev Benegal was his first film. Rahul Bose is involved with the Solidarity Network helping with the post-Tsunami relief efforts in the Nicobar Islands. He is also assosciated with NGOs and other organizations like Akshara Centre, Breakthrough, Spastics Society of India, World Youth Peace Summit. [1]
Rahul Bose started his acting career early, when as a boy of six he played the lead in his school play, 'Tom, the Piper's Son'. Ever since then his love for theatre has only grown with a prolific body of work on the Bombay stage, culminating in his last performance at the Leicester Haymarket in England where he played the lead in Tim Murari's 'The Square Circle'. His film career took off with the unprecedented success of his first film, 'English, August', today a cultish favourite amongst cinephiles. Acclaim followed for his work in movies like 'Split Wide Open' (Best Actor, Singapore Film Festival, 2000), Mr. And Mrs. Iyer, and 'Jhankaar Beats' - all international award-winning films. Although 'Thakshak' and 'Chameli' may be considered to be more mainstream, his image as India's premier actor of the alternative cinema finds concurrence across the world. 'Time' magazine called him 'the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema' while 'Maxim' (Italy), 'the Sean Penn of Oriental cinema'.
