Director: Satyajit Ray; Writer: Satyajit Ray; Cinematographer: Soumendu Roy; Editor: Dulal Dutt; Cast: Raya Chatterjee, Shovanial Gangopadhyay, Smaran Ghoshal, Purnendu Mukherjee, Kallol Bose, Subir Bose, Phani Nan, Norman Ellis
Duration: 00:51:28; Aspect Ratio: 1.333:1; Hue: 63.218; Saturation: 0.010; Lightness: 0.364; Volume: 0.193; Cuts per Minute: 10.354; Words per Minute: 73.798
Summary: Ray’s semi-documentary on his mentor commissioned for the centenary of Tagore’s birth. The extraordinarily diverse literary and visual output of Tagore, the Shantiniketan experiment and the Tagore family’s contributions to India’s freedom struggle are condensed into one hour, relying on a voice- over commentary that eschews historical analysis in favour of a fairly reverential approach. Ray includes some re-enactements of episodes in Tagore’s life together with images of paintings, photographs, documents, etc. The best moments are the reconstructed Balmiki Pratibha, and the song Tobu mone rekho (‘Yet remember me’) in Tagore’s own voice.
FD Synopsis:
This is a film biography on the life of poet Rabindranath Tagore, prepared with the help of live shots, sketches, photographs and a dramatic impersonation of his early life. Here we see the career of one of the most outstanding geniuses of the century being unfolded in different fields of art-as a poet, as a painter, as a rebel and as an educational reformer through the various phases of growth, maturity and ultimate flowering.
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