Rabindranath Tagore

Writing

Rabindranath Tagore

Born — Died

1861-05-07 — 1941-08-07

Place of birth

Calcutta, British India

Known for

Writing

Credits

8 titles

Rabindranath Tagore was a Bengali polymath — poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter. He reshaped Bengali literature and music as well as Indian art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of the Gitanjali (Song Offerings), he became in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. Tagore's poetic songs were viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. He is sometimes referred to as "the Bard of Bengal". Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At the age of sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion…

Known for

Elar Char Adhyay poster
8.5

Indranath is a leader of a group which is fighting for Indian independence. Ela is the teacher of the group. Ela is caught in a dilemma between her love for Atindra and her commitment towards her country.

Elar Char Adhyay

2012

Raktakarabi poster
NR

The play Raktakarabi, known in English as Red Oleanders by Rabindranath Tagore, is set in the fictional kingdom of Yakshapuri, where inhabitants toil as slaves in gold mines under the rule of an unseen king who remains concealed behind a screen in his palace.

Raktakarabi

2025

Rabindranath Tagore poster
7.0

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.

Rabindranath Tagore

1961

Natir Puja poster
7.0

A simple recording of Tagore's 1926 dance drama on Buddhist legend.

Natir Puja

1932

The Raja's Letter poster
NR

Amal is a seven-year-old Indian boy who is orphaned when his father dies and has to move to another part of India with his uncles. Amal integrates quickly and meets the different characters that open a new world for him. But what catches his attention the most is a post office in front of his house. His greatest hope would be to receive a letter from the Raja and become a postman, so he would travel all over India.

The Raja's Letter

2009

Shuvaa poster
6.0

Shuvaa was named as Shuvashini (one who has melodious voice) but she grows as deaf and dumb. Her father married off her two elder sister Suhashini and Sukeshini with grant ceremony. Now its Shuvaa's turn. Shuvaa and Protap from the same village love and understand each other. Protap asked her father to marry her and her father comes to Protap's parents with marriage proposal. Govinda Goswami refuses the proposal and insults him. Being refused and insulted, Banikonto leaves the village with his daughter and wife to his eldest daughter's house to marry off Shuvaa. Soon after her marriage, her husband Nibaron learns Shuvaa's condition that brings misery for her.

Shuvaa

2006

Film credits

Behind the camera

Elar Char Adhyay poster
8.5

Indranath is a leader of a group which is fighting for Indian independence. Ela is the teacher of the group. Ela is caught in a dilemma between her love for Atindra and her commitment towards her country.

Elar Char Adhyay

2012

Raktakarabi poster
NR

The play Raktakarabi, known in English as Red Oleanders by Rabindranath Tagore, is set in the fictional kingdom of Yakshapuri, where inhabitants toil as slaves in gold mines under the rule of an unseen king who remains concealed behind a screen in his palace.

Raktakarabi

2025

Natir Puja poster
7.0

A simple recording of Tagore's 1926 dance drama on Buddhist legend.

Natir Puja

1932

Natir Puja poster
7.0

A simple recording of Tagore's 1926 dance drama on Buddhist legend.

Natir Puja

1932

The Raja's Letter poster
NR

Amal is a seven-year-old Indian boy who is orphaned when his father dies and has to move to another part of India with his uncles. Amal integrates quickly and meets the different characters that open a new world for him. But what catches his attention the most is a post office in front of his house. His greatest hope would be to receive a letter from the Raja and become a postman, so he would travel all over India.

The Raja's Letter

2009

Shuvaa poster
6.0

Shuvaa was named as Shuvashini (one who has melodious voice) but she grows as deaf and dumb. Her father married off her two elder sister Suhashini and Sukeshini with grant ceremony. Now its Shuvaa's turn. Shuvaa and Protap from the same village love and understand each other. Protap asked her father to marry her and her father comes to Protap's parents with marriage proposal. Govinda Goswami refuses the proposal and insults him. Being refused and insulted, Banikonto leaves the village with his daughter and wife to his eldest daughter's house to marry off Shuvaa. Soon after her marriage, her husband Nibaron learns Shuvaa's condition that brings misery for her.

Shuvaa

2006