Presentation: Tagore and Indian Cinema

Tagore’s works - poetry, prose, music and song - offer all possibilities to the creative artist. The filmmaker translates, narrates and interprets through the framework of cinema. Tagore’s works go beyond their space and time, the universal language of cinema makes it possible to adapt a Tagore literary piece for the consumption of an international audience ideally through the medium of film. Sangeeta Datta will talk about the various cinematic adaptations of Tagore with reference to the works of Satyajit Ray, Tapan Sinha, Rituparno Ghosh and other filmmakers.

 

Sangeeta Datta is a well known writer/director, independent filmmaker and cultural commentator based in London. She is director of Baithak, which promotes South Asian arts in the UK and aims to bring an understanding of cultural heritage to Brit-Asian youth through Stormglass Productions, which is dedicated to making meaningful cinema and theatre drawing from narratives which have

an international appeal.