Ritesh Shah is an Indian writer. He was born on 9 April 1976 in Anantnag, Jammu, and Kashmir, India. Ritesh is known for he has written screenplay and dialogues for films like Kahaani (2012), Pink (2016), Airlift (2017), Raid (2018) and The Diplomat. He won the Filmfare award, Star Screen Award, and Zee Cine Award in the Best Dialogue category for Pink.
Ritesh started his career as a playwright in Delhi. He adopted Sławomir Mrożek’s political black comedy which pulled the attention of the Indian film industry.
One of the actors in the play suggested he shift the base to Mumbai where Ritesh started writing from the TV serial Kagaar. His first film as a writer was Sujoy Ghosh’s Home Delivery. Anurag Kashyap recommended him to Vipul Shah for writing the dialogues of the 2007 film Namastey London.
Ritesh Shah has also adopted the 2013 film B.A. Pass from a short story “The Raiwaly Aunty” written by Mohan Sikka.[6] He has also done a cameo role in Pink.
Ritesh Shah is currently working on the new upcoming Bolly Wood movie Tehran (2023) the writer of the movie also the Tehran movie will be released in 2023.