Ranjit Chowdhry

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Ranjit Chowdhry (alternate spellings: Ranjit Chaudhry / Ranjeet Chowdhary / Ranjit Chowdhary / Ranjeet Chowdhuri / Ranjit Chowdhury) is an actor of Indian descent, with around forty movies and television performances to his credit. Varied spellings of his names have been used in credits.

Ranjit is from Mumbai, and was a student at Campion School, Mumbai where he started his acting career. He played a prominent part in the Bollywood industry. His mother, Pearl Padamsee, was well-known theatre personality, drama teacher and actress on stage and film. His stepfather, Alyque Padamsee is an advertising maven and directs and acts in plays.

Ranjit moved to the USA in the early 1980s. He wrote the screen play and acted in Sam & Me (directed by Deepa Mehta) which won an Honorable Mention at Cannes in 1991.

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• Ranjit Chowdhry at the Internet Movie Database
• Interview with Ranjit Chowdhry including a photograph
• List and brief descriptions of ten movies
• Review of two Deepa Mehta movies and Chowdhry's performance
• News item mentioning Ranjit
• Article describing a movie with Ranjit nominated for an award