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Rahul Bose has apeared in hindi films such as Pyaar Ke Side Effects and Jhankaar Beats.He is an Indian actor, screenwriter, film director, social activist, and rugby union player. He is notable for his involvement in the relief efforts that followed the 2004 Boxing Day Tsunami and is also the founder of the anti-discrimination NGO, The Foundation.

Bose started his acting career at age six he played the lead in his school. He later performed on the Bombay stage in the plays Topsy Turvy and There Are Tigers In The Congo. He also performed abroad in venues such as the Leicester Haymarket in England where he starred in Tim Murari’s The Square Circle. After his aunt sent his head shots to director Dev Benegal, he was cast in the film English, August. His other notable films include Split Wide Open (Best Actor, Singapore Film Festival, 2000), Mr. and Mrs. Iyer, Jhankaar Beats, and Pyaar Ke Side Effects. In 2001, he made his directorial debut with Everybody Says I’m Fine!. Despite his roles in more mainstream movies like Thakshak and Pyaar Ke Side Effects, Bose has been called “the superstar of Indian arthouse cinema” by Time Asia and “the Sean Penn of Oriental cinema” by Maxim.He was scheduled to begin shooting his adaptation of Mohsin Hamid’s novel, Moth Smoke in early 2010,but the project was postponed after the film’s financial backers pulled out. The Japanese Wife, the third Aparna Sen film in which he has appeared, is scheduled for release in January 2010.