Rabindranath Tagore

Writing

Rabindranath Tagore

Born May 7, 1861 · Calcutta, British India

Died August 7, 1941 · aged 80

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 an…

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Ghya Chang FouGhya Chang Fou · 2017
Ghya Chang Fou
★ 8.52017
MovieFantasyDrama
Ghya-chang-fou literally means 'suddenly beheading' in Bengali. it features thirteen unnamed people gathering in a mansion filled with archaic objects to celebrate what appears to be a communist revolution. Nothing seems real, roads open up to improbable places, places lead to impossible elevators, elevators lift people to unconvincing roads. Bacchanalian spirit steadily overtakes the initial deadpan seriousness. The encore of celebration sounds delusionary as the drunken conversation about communism, about its methods and means, about it intricate turns through history degenerates to bourgeois nonsense and decadence leading to absurd rifts, comic conflicts, unleashed orgies and debauchery.
The StrangerThe Stranger · 1991
The Stranger
★ 7.61991
MovieDrama
A well-off family is paid an unexpected, and rather unwanted, visit by a man claiming to be the woman's long lost uncle. The initial suspicion with which they greet the man slowly dissolves as he regales them with stories of his travels, tales that are at odds with their conventional middle class perspective on the world.
CharulataCharulata · 1964
Charulata
★ 7.51964
MovieDramaRomance
In 1870s India, Charulata is an isolated, artistically inclined woman who sees little of her busy journalist husband, Bhupati. Realizing that his wife is alienated and unhappy, he convinces his cousin, Amal, to spend time with Charulata and nourish her creative impulses. Amal is a fledgling poet himself, and he and Charulata bond over their shared love of art.
NoukadubiNoukadubi · 2011
Noukadubi
★ 7.02011
MovieRomanceDrama
Months after an accident following his marriage, a husband finds that the veiled woman he brought home is not his wife.
Chokher BaliChokher Bali · 2003
Chokher Bali
★ 7.72003
MovieDramaRomance
A young woman is left to her own devices when her sickly husband dies. Based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore.
Ghawre Bairey AajGhawre Bairey Aaj · 2019
Ghawre Bairey Aaj
★ 6.32019
MovieDrama
Ghawre Bairey Aaj is inspired by Rabindranath Tagore's novel 'Ghawre Bairey' (Home and the World) and is a contemporary retelling of love triangle involving Tagore's characters Nikhilesh, Sandip and Bimala.
KaalbelaKaalbela · 2009
Kaalbela
★ 6.02009
MovieDrama
The violence and upheaval of Calcutta in the 1970s is focalized through a young man coming to the city to study.
Could One Imagine?Could One Imagine? · 1981
Could One Imagine?
★ 7.21981
MovieDramaRomance
Two high school kids meet in class and fall madly in love with each other. Unfortunately, His father and her mother had a history of their own between them which creates uneasiness in both of them. Also because of that, the boy's mother is very jealous and tries to separate them. The only person that tries to help them is their teacher who has relationship problems of her own.

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