
United Nations/UNESCO observed in 2009 that the sesquicentennial birth anniversary of the poet the first non-European to receive a Nobel Prize in literature would be celebrated world wide. The celebrations were kicked off by UNESCO in Paris in May 2010. The movie documents messages from world leaders and many celebrations around the world and provides a renewed platform for hope and inspiration through greatest songs and poems of the poet amid wars and strife. The documentary... (Full plot summary below)
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United Nations/UNESCO observed in 2009 that the sesquicentennial birth anniversary of the poet the first non-European to receive a Nobel Prize in literature would be celebrated world wide. The celebrations were kicked off by UNESCO in Paris in May 2010. The movie documents messages from world leaders and many celebrations around the world and provides a renewed platform for hope and inspiration through greatest songs and poems of the poet amid wars and strife. The documentary is pro bono, non-commercial and is aimed at the students and educational institutions. The concept and creation of one family only without any financial help and took about 3 years to accomplish. Thank you.
Leave your thoughts about Rabindranath Tagore: The Poet of Eternity.
| The New York TimesRachel SaltzThe movie is so eager to convince us of Tagore’s greatness as a universal soul (it was Tagore, by the way, who gave Gandhi the name “mahatma,” or great soul) that it fails to give us the man or a clear sense of context. |
| The Hollywood ReporterFrank ScheckRabindranath Tagore: The Poet of Eternity, although clearly lovingly intended, is too haphazard and unenlightening to fulfill its mission of educating Western audiences about the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| Village VoiceSteve EricksonThis film struggles to do justice to his many accomplishments, shortchanging his artistry. |
| Los Angeles TimesMartin TsaiIt's essentially a glorified PowerPoint presentation that juxtaposes archival footage — an echo chamber of interviews, readings and performances taken entirely out of context — with amateurish stock footage and a short running time. |