On the 155th Birthday of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore (7,May) watch the documentary Satyajit Ray made on him.
Rabindranath Tagore, it is believed, did not leave any human emotion untouched in his works, especially in his poems. Be it nature, love, separation, celebration, devotion, patriotism or simple imagination, the bard has a song for every occasion. No wonder then, Bangla films are heavily indebted to Tagore, having extensively borrowed from his vast collection.
Rabindranath Tagore was Asia’s first Nobel Prize winner. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1913 for his book Gitanjali. Although most famed for his poetry, Tagore was a creative genius who played a crucial role in the cultural renaissance of India and Bengal in the 19th and early 20th Century.