By Bollywood Hungama News Network, May 4, 2011 – 13:58 IST

Rabindranath Tagore is a bright sun in the Indian literary horizon and most of his novels, novellas and short stories have found their cinematic interpretation in close to 100 films in different languages globally, most notably Bengali. Besides these, there are literally hundreds of films where the branch of music he pioneered, called ‘Rabindra Sangeet’, has played an integral part. In many cases, his songs and poems have inspired complete films.

The Nobel Laureate, a poet, writer, philosopher, ambassador of Indian culture to the rest of the world, was born on 7th May 1861. Even though he is better known as a poet, writer, essayist, and dramatist and for his musical compositions, which includes the two national anthems of India and Bangladesh, Tagore’s multifaceted talent left its imprint on different branches of art as well. He was a social reformer, patriot and above all a great humanist. The 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore is on 7th May 2011 (25th Baishakh).

With a view to celebrate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Rabindranath Tagore in a befitting manner, a National Committee (notified in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary on 27th April 2010) under the Chairmanship of the Hon’ble Prime Minister and a National Implementation Committee (NIC) under the Chairmanship of the Hon’ble Finance Minister have been constituted to commemorate the 150th Birth Anniversary of Gurudev More >