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Rabindranath Tagore

Composer, Writer, Editor, Additional Credits
Born May 7, 1861Died August 7, 1941 (80 years)
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"). By 1877 he graduated to his first short stories and dramas, published under his real name. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, and ardent anti-nationalist, he denounced the British 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 also endures in the institution he founded, Visva-Bharati University.

Tagore modernised Bengali art by spurning rigid classical forms and resisting linguistic strictures. His novels, stories, songs, dance-dramas, and essays spoke to topics political and personal. Gitanjali (Song Offerings), Gora (Fair-Faced) and Ghare-Baire (The Home and the World) are his best-known works, and his verse, short stories, and novels were acclaimed—or panned—for their lyricism, colloquialism, naturalism, and unnatural contemplation. His compositions were chosen by two nations as national anthems: India's "Jana Gana Mana" and Bangladesh's "Amar Shonar Bangla". The Sri Lankan national anthem was inspired by his work.

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Known For

  • Aguner Poroshmoni
  • The Stranger
  • Choker Bali: A Passion Play
  • Bhooter Bhabishyat
  • Noukadubi
  • The Home and the World
  • Darbaan
  • Three Daughters
  • The Cloud-Capped Star
  • Jibon Theke Neya
  • Rajkahini
  • The Festival
  • Iti Mrinalini: An Unfinished Letter...
  • Kabuliwala
  • Chitrangada
  • Lekin...
  • Ghawre Bairey Aaj
  • Kabuliwala
  • Detective
  • Abohomaan
  • Goynar Baksho
  • Abar Byomkesh
  • Satyanweshi
  • Bilu: A Demon Within

Filmography

2024
Padatik · as Composer
2023
Ektu Sore Boshun · as Composer
2021
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta · as Original Music Composer
2019
Ghawre Bairey Aaj · as Original Music Composer
2018
Jonaki · as Original Music Composer
2017
Sunyo Theke Suru · as Composer
2017
Bhuban Majhi · as Original Music Composer
2017
AranyaDeb · as Original Music Composer
2016
Shankhachil · as Original Music Composer
2015
Rajkahini · as Original Music Composer
2015
Saari Raat · as Original Music Composer
2013
Shunyo Awnko: Act Zero · as Original Music Composer
2013
Ganesh Talkies · as Original Music Composer
2013
Goynar Baksho · as Original Music Composer
2012
Dutta Vs. Dutta · as Original Music Composer
2012
Chitrangada · as Original Music Composer
2012
Amader Golpo · as Original Music Composer
2012
Abar Byomkesh · as Original Music Composer
2012
Bhooter Bhabishyat · as Original Music Composer
2011
Noukadubi · as Original Music Composer
2010
Iti Mrinalini: An Unfinished Letter... · as Original Music Composer
2009
Abohomaan · as Original Music Composer
2009
Shob Charitro Kalponik · as Original Music Composer
2009
Kaalbela · as Original Music Composer
2008
Khela · as Original Music Composer
2008
Chalo Let's Go · as Original Music Composer
2007
Ami, Yasin Ar Amar Madhubala · as Original Music Composer
2007
Noy Number Bipod Shongket · as Original Music Composer
2006
The Bong Connection · as Original Music Composer
2006
Rupkothar Golpo · as Original Music Composer
2006
Khelaghor · as Original Music Composer
2004
Shasti · as Original Music Composer
2003
Choker Bali: A Passion Play · as Original Music Composer
2003
In the Forest... Again · as Original Music Composer
2002
My Land · as Original Music Composer
2002
Dekha · as Original Music Composer
2000
The Festival · as Original Music Composer
1996
Lathi · as Original Music Composer
1994
Aguner Poroshmoni · as Original Music Composer
1991
The Stranger · as Original Music Composer
1984
The Home and the World · as Original Music Composer
1984
Kony · as Original Music Composer
1980
Dadar Kirti · as Original Music Composer
1977
Reason, Debate and a Story · as Original Music Composer
1970
Jibon Theke Neya · as Original Music Composer
1964
Charulata · as Original Music Composer

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