- published: 21 Feb 2011
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Rabindranath Tagore (Bengali: রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941), sobriquet Gurudev, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped his region's literature and music. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; his seemingly mesmeric personality, flowing hair, and other-worldly dress earned him a prophet-like reputation in the West. His "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit. He was highly influential in introducing the best of Indian culture to the West and vice versa, and he is generally regarded as the outstanding creative artist of modern India.
A Pirali Brahmin from Calcutta, Tagore wrote poetry as an eight-year-old. At age sixteen, he released his first substantial poems under the pseudonym Bhānusiṃha ("Sun Lion"), which were seized upon by literary authorities as long-lost classics. He graduated to his first short stories and dramas—and the aegis of his birth name—by 1877. As a humanist, universalist internationalist, and strident anti-nationalist he denounced the Raj and advocated independence from Britain. As an exponent of the Bengal Renaissance, he advanced a vast canon that comprised paintings, sketches and doodles, hundreds of texts, and some two thousand songs; his legacy endures also in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.
Actors: Raima Sen (actress), Biswajit Chakraborty (actor), Biplab Chatterjee (actor), Moon Moon Sen (actress), Saswata Chatterjee (actor), Kharaj Mukherjee (actor), Kaushik Ganguly (actor), Jeet (actor), Chandan Sen (actor), Mousumi Saha (actress), Kamalika Banerjee (actress), Dhiman Chakraborty (actor), Shankar Ghosh (actor), Ramaprasad Banik (actor), Sudipa Basu (actress),
Plot: Natobar, like any other typical Bengali lad, wants to be a poet. He is unsuccessful in all his attempts while dabbling with poetry. Rabindranath Tagore visits him in his sleep and gives him a boon - he is endowed with Tagore's poetic prowess but for a limited period. Armed with this, Natobar ventures out to win the world. He pens down two volumes of poems composed on the next door girl, Mishtu, whom he adores but finds it difficult to get them published! Heartbroken, he joins the world of advertising where he becomes an instant hit as a jingle writer. He falls into the trap of upward mobility & undergoes a value change! Eventually, Natobar returns to his roots....
Genres: Comedy, Musical,