Rabindranath Tagore

The documentary takes up Rabindranath Tagore. Tagore was a man who worked in many fields. He was a poet, a writer and a playwright. He was a composer and a painter as well. He took up philosophy and social reform too. He reshaped Bengali literature and music. His effect on Indian art was just as large. In 1913 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature. He was the first non-European to take that prize. The film tells his life through reconstructions. The work came out in the centenary year of Tagore’s birth. The account uses archive material together with reconstructions. The director is also the narrator of the film. Satyajit Ray’s Indian documentary of 1961 runs fifty four minutes.