Doordarshan is to commence telecast of a new series, 'Rabindranath Tagore's Poem' from 15 July as a tribute to the Nobel Laureate to mark his 150th birth anniversary.

       The series is slated to be telecast every Monday at 10 pm on DD National. Titled 'Thrayadashee', is a compilation of 13 short films based on 13 poems of Tagore. Each film narrates a different theme and mood like solitude, singularity, border, religion, love, relationship, betrayal, hope etc with subtlety and in profound cinematic language.

       Thrayadashee is not a periodical but has a universality of time and space. The 13 films are each of 25-30 minutes duration and has been named Bansi (The Flute), Krishnakali (The Dark Maiden), Mukti (The Freedom), Phanki (Deception), Pukur Dhare (From the pool side), Ek Gaye (A Village), Camellia (Camellia), Banshiwallah (The Flutist), Shesh Chithi (The Last Letter), Hothat Dekha (The Unexpected Meeting), Patralekha (The letter ought to be written), Basha Bari (The mansion) and Istition (The Station).

       Directed on his own screenplay by Buddhadeb Dasgupta, the series has been filmed by Diego Romero with art direction by Subrata Chakraborty. Music is by Aloknanda Dasgupta. The series has been produced by the National Film Development Corporation.

       Dasgupta told indiantelevision.com in a telephonic interview from Kolkata that he had attempted to put the essence of Tagore's thoughts in his poems in the series. "These films encapsulate Tagore's humanism and showcase the creativity that he had in him and a genius that he was," he says.
The National Implementation Committee for the commemoration of Tagore's 150th birth anniversary (Ministry of Culture) got these films made by the NFDC.
Doordarshan, which had earlier telecast the serial 'Gora' based on the second novel of the Nobel laureate, is now slated to telecast this series based on the poems on its National Network. The screening committee headed by filmmaker Shyam Benegal had been constituted by the National Implementation Committee to examine film production and related proposals for the commemoration.

     These films reflect a wide range of his intellectual thinking and are as much as relevant today as they were when conceived and written by Gurudev, a Radical man of Indian Renaissance of his time.

      'Gora', a 26-episode series, had been produced by renowned filmmaker, curator, distributor, exhibitor and producer Gargi Sen, and directed by Somnath Sen who is known for his work in cinema.

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