Tagore magic on screen

As a part of its ongoing initiative to showcase critically acclaimed movies to the connoisseurs of the national Capital as well as to pay a special tribute to Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore in the month of his birth anniversary, the Government of West Bengal organised a day-long retrospective of films based on writings by the Nobel laureate author-philosopher at <g data-gr-id="27">Mukatadhara</g> Auditorium on Saturday. 

Tagore Talkies was inaugurated in the gracious presence of Atanu Purkayastha, Additional Chief Secretary, Government of West Bengal, R D Meena, Principal Resident Commissioner, Government of West Bengal and Rajesh Kumar, Officer on Special Duty, Government of West Bengal. 

The opening film of the festival was a dramatised documentary on <g data-gr-id="28">Rabindranth</g> Tagore, directed by movie maestro Satyajit Ray in 1961 to celebrate the poet’s birth centenary. The other movies on offer were Ghare Baire (The Home and The World), Ray’s skillful adaptation of a Tagore novel dealing with complexities of “<g data-gr-id="29">swadeshi</g>” movement and women empowerment and Char Adhyay, directed by Kumar Shahani, based on the Tagore novella of the same name which offered a different perspective on the issues of nationalism and idealism.

The office of the Resident Commissioner, Government of West Bengal, also organized a two-day retrospective  Best of Indian Cinema – Bengal Film Festival  in collaboration with Doordarshan at Banga Bhavan here in September last year.

“We regularly organise cultural and film –related programmes from time to time. <g data-gr-id="21">Infact</g>, this is the second film festival organised by us recently. The main objective is to pay homage to Rabindranath Tagore in a different manner. We are glad that the event has been received so well by the film connoisseurs of Delhi. It gives us <g data-gr-id="22">immense</g> satisfaction that our effort has succeeded,” said Prasenjit Das, Deputy Resident Commissioner and Deputy Director of Information, Government of West Bengal.