Rabindranath Tagore
Writing
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. Description above is from the Wikipedia article Rabindranath Tagore, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Writing154
movieMayamrigaya
2026
Author
movieThe Sacrifice
2026
Theatre Play
movieHoimontir Etikatha
2024
Story, Lyricist
tvRumi
2024
Lyricist
movieKabuliwala
2023
Short Story
movieLondon Misal
2023
Original Story
tvThe Curse of Parnashavari
2023
Lyricist
movieMahanagari Theke Dure
2023
Original Story
movieCircle of Desire
2021
Lyricist
movieDarbaan
2020
Original Story
movieDetective
2019
Story
movieSheser Golpo
2019
Author
movieMahalaya
2019
Lyricist
movieMaati
2018
Lyricist
movieBioscopewala
2018
Short Story
movieLaboratory
2018
Story
movieJonaki
2018
Lyricist
movieThe Cage
2017
Lyricist
movieBilu Rakkhosh
2017
Lyricist
movieGhya Chang Fou
2017
Lyricist
movieDaak Ghar
2017
Story
movieAranyaDeb
2017
Lyricist
moviePostmaster
2016
Story
movieShankhachil
2016
Lyricist
movieRajkahini
2015
Lyricist
movieJogajog
2015
Story
movieTaptapadi
2014
Original Story, Novel
movieCharulata
2013
Story
movieSatyanweshi
2013
Lyricist
movieWoh
2013
Short Story
movieAct Zero
2013
Lyricist
movieGanesh Talkies
2013
Lyricist
movieThe Station
2013
Original Story
movieThe Jewellery Box
2013
Lyricist
movieDutta Vs Dutta
2012
Lyricist
movieChitrangada
2012
Lyricist
movieAmader Golpo
2012
Lyricist
movieAbar Byomkesh
2012
Lyricist
movieBhooter Bhabishyat
2012
Lyricist
movieIti Mrinalini
2011
Lyricist
movieNoukadubi
2011
Original Story, Novel
movieAbohomaan
2009
Lyricist
movieShob Charitro Kalponik
2009
Lyricist
movieCalcutta My Love
2009
Lyricist
movieKhela
2008
Lyricist
movieLet's Go...
2008
Lyricist
movieThe Voyeurs
2007
Lyricist
movieThe Bong Connection
2006
Lyricist
movieA Fairy Tale
2006
Lyricist
movieKabuliwala
2006
Short Story
movieDollhouse
2006
Lyricist
movieShuvaa
2006
Writer
moviePunishment
2004
Short Story, Lyricist
movieIn the Forest... Again
2003
Lyricist
movieThis, My Land
2002
Lyricist
movieDekha
2001
Lyricist
movieUtsab
2000
Lyricist
movieChar Adhyay
1997
Story
movieLathi
1996
Lyricist
movieAguner Poroshmoni
1995
Lyricist
movieThe Stranger
1991
Lyricist
movieLekin...
1990
Story
movieThe Home and the World
1985
Novel, Lyricist
movieKony
1984
Lyricist
movieDidi
1984
Story
movieBijoyini
1982
Lyricist
movieSaheb
1981
Lyricist
movieCould One Imagine?
1981
Lyricist
movieDadar Kirti
1980
Lyricist
movieShipwreck
1979
Novel, Lyricist
movieThe Father
1979
Lyricist
movieDour
1979
Lyricist
movieLove in the Autumn
1974
Lyricist
movieSriman Prithviraj
1973
Lyricist
movieMem Saheb
1972
Lyricist
movieUphaar
1971
Story
movieKhunje Berai
1971
Lyricist
movieKuheli
1971
Lyricist
movieNimantran
1971
Lyricist
movieMalyadan
1971
Story
movieNabarag
1971
Lyricist
movieMahabiplabi Aurobindo
1971
Lyricist
movieLight and Shadows
1970
Short Story
movieJibon Theke Neya
1970
Lyricist
movieDibaratrir Kabya
1970
Lyricist
movieThe Wish Fulfilment
1970
Short Story
movieTeen Bhubaner Paare
1969
Lyricist
movieChowringhee
1968
Lyricist
movieShankhabela
1966
Lyricist
movieAtithi
1965
Story
movieDak Ghar
1965
Story
movieSubho O Debotar Gras
1964
Story, Lyricist
movieAnustup Chhanda
1964
Lyricist
movieNatun Tirtha
1964
Lyricist
movieCharulata
1964
Lyricist, Novel
movieA Burnt House
1964
Lyricist
movieBibhas
1964
Lyricist
movieThe Representative
1964
Lyricist
movieKanna
1962
Lyricist
movieKancher Swarga
1962
Lyricist
Kabuliwala
1961
Short Story, Story
movieNecklace
1961
Lyricist
movieThe Lost Jewels
1961
Original Story
movieThree Daughters
1961
Short Story
movieThe Return of Little Master
1960
Story, Lyricist
movieThe Judge
1959
Lyricist
movieLukochuri
1958
Lyricist
movieKalamati
1958
Lyricist
movieKabuliwala
1957
Short Story
movieChirakumar Sabha
1956
Story, Lyricist
movieAnkush
1954
Lyricist
movieBou Thakuranir Haat
1953
Story, Lyricist
movieRatrir Tapasya
1952
Lyricist
movieDatta
1951
Lyricist
movieAnanya
1949
Lyricist
movieA Plea
1949
Lyricist
movieAnjangarh
1948
Lyricist
movieBhuli Nai
1948
Lyricist
movieSadharan Meye
1948
Lyricist
movieThe Gift of Sight
1948
Story, Lyricist
movieAbhiyatri
1947
Lyricist
movieMilan
1946
Story
moviePratikar
1944
Lyricist
movieUttarayan
1941
Lyricist
movieGora
1938
Story
movieAbhigyan
1938
Lyricist
movieMukti
1937
Lyricist
movieNatir Puja
1932
Writer
movieGiribala
1930
Story
movieBicharak
1929
Story
movieSacrifice
1927
Story
movieMaanbhanjan
1923
Story
Punishment
Short Story
movieBolai
Short Story
Sound9
movieOnce Upon a Time in Calcutta
2025
Original Music Composer
movieHoimontir Etikatha
2024
Original Music Composer
movieCircle of Desire
2021
Original Music Composer
movieKony
1984
Original Music Composer
movieDadar Kirti
1980
Original Music Composer
movieA Plea
1949
Music
Crew5
tvRumi
2024
Compositor
movieAsukh
1999
Poem
Acting2
movieRabindranath Tagore
1961
Self (Archive footage)
Directing1
movieNatir Puja
1932
Director