Ranjit Chowdhry

Ranjit appeared in King of the Jungle with John Leguizamo, Rosie Perez and Marisa Tomei, and Autumn in New York with Richard Gere and Winona Ryder for director Joan Chen. Chowdhry's diverse list of North American film credits includes Such a Long Journey, Boozecan, Kama Sutra, Fire, The Perez Family, Girl 6, I'm Not Rappaport, It Could Happen to You, The Night We Never Met, Camilla, Mississippi Masala, Lonely In America, and Sam and Me directed by Deepa Mehta from a script written by Chowdhry. The film was the co-winner of the Camera D'Or at the 1991 Cannes Film Festival.

For television, he has appeared in such productions as Third Watch, Falcone, The Beat, Cosby, My Own Country and NYPD Blue. In India, Chowdhry's film credits include Hungamma Bombay Style, Basu Chatterjee's Khatta Meetha and Baton Baton Mein, Hrishikesh Mukherjee's Khoobsoorat, Robin Dharmaraj's award-winning film Chakra with Naseeruddin Shah and Smita Patil, and Kaalia with Amitabh Bachchan.

Chowdhry trained in the copy departments of Lintas, Trikaya-Grey and J. Walter Thomson – three of Bombay's leading advertising agencies. He went on to head the television departments of two of the above. At Trikaya, he wrote 13 teleplays for Mr. or Mrs? – India's first situation comedy based on the reversal of traditional family roles. At JWT, he adapted Malgudi Days, an award-winning series based on the stories of the late R.K. Narayan. The series continues to be seen in over 52 countries worldwide.

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