Rabindranath Tagore (1961)
'His mortal remains perished, but he left behind him a heritage which no fire could consume.'
Genre : Documentary, History
Runtime : 54M
Director : Satyajit Ray
Writer : Satyajit Ray
Synopsis
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.
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