Rabindranath Tagore (1961)

7.0/10 54 min Documentary History

Overview

Docudrama about the life of Rabindranath Tagore, Indian polymath—poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer and painter, who reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art, becoming in 1913 the first non-European and the first lyricist to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. The film was released during Tagore's birth centenary year.

Cast

Satyajit Ray

Narrator (voice)

Rabindranath Tagore

Self (Archive footage)

Smaran Ghosal

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