Rabindranath Tagore 1961
"'His mortal remains perished, but he left behind him a heritage which no fire could consume.'"
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.
Director: Satyajit Ray
Cast
Satyajit Ray
Narrator (voice)
Rabindranath Tagore
Self (Archive footage)
Raya Chatterjee
Sovanlal Ganguli
Smaran Ghosal
Purnendu Mukherjee
Kallol Bose
Subir Bose
Phani Nan
Norman Ellis