Tarting up high art
So my beautiful, talented friend Deepanjana Pal landed the lead role in a Calcutta art phillum done by her director-mother. The movie explores Rabindranath Tagore’s relationship with his sister-in-law Kadambari Devi:
Bandana insists that her film doesn’t portray Tagore and Kadambari Devi as lovers. “… I haven’t portrayed it as an affair. Although I haven’t shown any physical relationship, a physical desire could also be there within them.” [Link]
As you know, Calcuttans take their Tagore very seriously. Sit through some sonorous, soporific Robindro shongeet and you’ll understand that in a hurry. But what tickles me is that the ToI’s gossip section came up with a headline which combines sexual innuendo with alliteration while managing to be completely non sequitur.
Old faithful.
Arthouse flowers can catch Chirosakha Hé Monday, July 23rd, 4pm at the Village East cinema. It’s part of the New York Film and Video Festival (see schedule). But Calcutta distributors are treading warily around their icon:
… the distributor of the film will first take a serious look at the film even before deciding on when to, or for that matter, whether to release the film in Kolkata! [Link]
on Thursday, July 12th, 2007, 2:08 am in Film, Media, Times of India › 
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So the real question is, “Was Kadambari’s Venus a fly trap?”
Manish, If u look at most Tagore’s novels they are all women oriented…It has got to do with a lot of close associations with all the women in his family, specially sister in laws..
personally I dont like Tagores novels or poetry, but I like rabindra nritya/dance..its beautiful..unlike bharatnatyam, kathak or kuchipudi where steps and body movements are rigid/stiff and fast paced, rabindra nritya is slow paced and the body language flows smoothly..its beautiful like watching waves of a river or sea…
I like rabindra sangeet /music too..it is soft..dhere dhere nutol hava..
I admire Tagore for his multitalented personality (plays, poetry,novels,dance, music) etc., but literature wise he is not my kind of writer, I find his novels too boring, too women oriented, too much into mushy mushy soft love or failed romance or forbidden romances..be it charulata or kadambari or binodini in chokerbali.. may be it is nice sensitive portrayal of women of his time, but too womanly for me..and his poetry which is mostly metaphysical about God and all that in gitanjali and gitobitan is also beyond me..
@Prakruti,
You can try to read “Gora” by Tagore which has an entirely different feel. Also “Ghore Baire” is truly wonerful where he talks about the sensitive issue of pseudo nationalism.