Union Minister of Culture Smt. Chandresh Kumari Katoch here today launched, 13 short films based on the poems of Rabindranath Tagore. These films have been produced with the financial support of Ministry of Culture. Shri Buddhadeb Dasgupta, noted Director has directed this series through National Film Development Corporation.
This Project for Production of 13 short films/ documentaries is a part of the commemoration celebrating 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
The Screening Committee under the Chairmanship of Shri Shyam Benegal was constituted to examine film production and related proposals for the commemoration.
These short films (each of 25-30 minutes duration) are based on Tagore’s poems namely, Bansi (The Flute), Krishnakali (The Dark Maiden), Mukti (The Freedom), Phanki (Deception), Pukur Dhare (From the pool side), Ek Gaye (A Village), Camellia (Camellia), Banshiwallah (The Flutist), Shesh Chithi (The Last Letter), Hothat Dekha (The Unexpected Meeting), Patralekha (The letter ought to be written), Basha Bari (The mansion) and Istition (The Station).
Tagore, one of the greatest sons of India, is globally known for his literary and artistic genius, creativity, humanism and internationalism. He was a great poet, an author, a composer, a philosopher, a musicologist, a visual artist of a very high calibre, a social reformer and a celebrated educator. There is hardly a field of activity not explored by him. He is an integral part of the famous trilogy namely, “Gandhi, Nehru and Tagore.” Gitanjali or the ‘song offering’, that got him the Nobel in 1913 showcased his “innermost feelings and the humblest prayers”.
These films encapsulate Tagore’s humanism and showcase the creativity that he had in him and a genius that he was. These films reflect a wide range of his intellectual thinking from Romance to Philosophy, to tradition to the contemporary ills to western thoughts. They are as much as relevant today as they were when conceived and written by Gurudev a Radical man of Indian Renaissance of his time.
This Project for Production of 13 short films/ documentaries is a part of the commemoration celebrating 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore.
The Screening Committee under the Chairmanship of Shri Shyam Benegal was constituted to examine film production and related proposals for the commemoration.
These short films (each of 25-30 minutes duration) are based on Tagore’s poems namely, Bansi (The Flute), Krishnakali (The Dark Maiden), Mukti (The Freedom), Phanki (Deception), Pukur Dhare (From the pool side), Ek Gaye (A Village), Camellia (Camellia), Banshiwallah (The Flutist), Shesh Chithi (The Last Letter), Hothat Dekha (The Unexpected Meeting), Patralekha (The letter ought to be written), Basha Bari (The mansion) and Istition (The Station).
Tagore, one of the greatest sons of India, is globally known for his literary and artistic genius, creativity, humanism and internationalism. He was a great poet, an author, a composer, a philosopher, a musicologist, a visual artist of a very high calibre, a social reformer and a celebrated educator. There is hardly a field of activity not explored by him. He is an integral part of the famous trilogy namely, “Gandhi, Nehru and Tagore.” Gitanjali or the ‘song offering’, that got him the Nobel in 1913 showcased his “innermost feelings and the humblest prayers”.
These films encapsulate Tagore’s humanism and showcase the creativity that he had in him and a genius that he was. These films reflect a wide range of his intellectual thinking from Romance to Philosophy, to tradition to the contemporary ills to western thoughts. They are as much as relevant today as they were when conceived and written by Gurudev a Radical man of Indian Renaissance of his time.
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