Biography
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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Filmography
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Kabuliwala (2023)
London Misal (2023)
Parnashavarir Shaap (2023)
Mahanagari Theke Dure (2023)
Abalamban (2021)
Darbaan (2020)
To Vlémma (2020)
Detective (2019)
One Woman Man (2019)
Ghawre Bairey Aaj (2019)
Sheser Golpo (2019)
Mahalaya (2019)
Aakashee Pullover (2018)
Maati (2018)
Bioscopewala (2018)
Laboratory (2018)
Bilu: A Demon Within (2017)
Red Oleanders Raktokarobi (2017)
Sunyo Theke Suru (2017)
The Hungry Stones (2017)
Daak Ghar (2017)
Hotath Dekha (2017)
Postmaster (2016)
The Last Poem (2015)
Jogajog (2015)
Taptapadi (2014)
Charulata (2013)
The Land of Cards (2013)
Satyanweshi (2013)
Chitrangada: The Crowning Wish (2012)
Elar Char Adhyay (2012)
Charuulata 2011 (2012)
Noukadubi (2011)
Life Goes On (2009)
The Raja's Letter (2009)
Four Chapters (2008)
Lovesongs (2008)
Chander Bari (2007)
The Bong Connection (2006)
Every Good Marriage Begins with Tears (2006)
Kabuliwala (2006)
Shuvaa (2006)
Punishment (2004)
Chokher Bali (2003)
Daughters of This Century (2001)
Malaise (1999)
Char Adhyay (1997)
The Stranger (1991)
Neelimay Neel (1991)
Lekin... (1990)
The Home and the World (1985)
Didi (1984)
Kony (1984)
Shipwreck (1979)
Jadu Bansha (1974)
Reason, Debate and a Story (1974)
Bonpalashir Padabali (1973)
The Post Office (1973)
Letter from the Wife (1972)
Nimantran (1971)
The Wedding Garland (1971)
Nabarag (1971)
Mahabiplabi Aurobindo (1971)
Uphaar (1971)
Saraswathi (1970)
Ichhapuran (1970)
Chowringhee (1968)
Atithi (1965)
Dak Ghar (1965)
Charulata (1964)
Lal Pathar (1964)
Chaya Surya (1963)
Kancher Swarga (1962)
Kabuliwala (1961)
Teen Kanya (1961)
Komal Gandhar (1961)
Rabindranath Tagore (1961)
The Return of Little Master (1960)
The Cloud-Capped Star (1960)
Hungry Stones (1960)
The Judge (1959)
Kabuliwala (1957)
Charana Daasi (1956)
Two Acres of Land (1953)
Bou Thakuranir Haat (1953)
Ratrir Tapasya (1952)
Desire (1949)
Sunken Boat (1946)
Gora (1938)
Natir Puja (1932)
Giribala (1929)
Bicharak (1928)
Sacrifice (1927)
Maanbhanjan (1923)
The Lost Jewels
Mayamrigaya
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Known ForWriting
GenderMale
Birthday1861-05-07
Deathday1941-08-07 (80 years old)
Birth PlaceKolkata, India
ReligionHinduism
RelationshipsMrinalini Devi (1883-01-01 - 1902-01-01)
ChildrenRathindranath Tagore
FatherDebendranath Tagore
SiblingsSwarnakumari Devi, Soudamini Debi, Dwijendranath Tagore, Hemendranath Tagore, Jyotirindranath Tagore, Satyendranath Tagore
CitizenshipsBritish Raj
Also Known AsRobindronath Thakur, Rabindronath Thakur, Gurudev, Gurudeb, Kabiguru, Kobiguru, Bishokobi, Bishwakobi, Vishwakavi, রবীন্দ্রনাথ ঠাকুর, रबीन्द्रनाथ ठाकुर
AwardsOfficer of the Order of the British Empire, Knight Bachelor, honorary doctor of the University of Calcutta, Nobel Prize in Literature
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