Satyjit Ray's documentary 'Rabindranath Tagore'

Satyajit's Ray's documentary is more than a film. In his Rabindranath Tagore he has captured not only the life of the poet, but the rhythm of the time in which Tagore lived.He has delineated so vividly the intellectual milieu in which he was born and brought up. Tagore grew up rather than being brought up. His spirituality, his poetical approach to life and his world vision are all developed slowly. His grandfather , his father and his brothers have all inspired him. In him the ideas of the Tagore family are all assimilated. Ray has beautifully captured the slow process of development. The Film is almost a bildungsroman in audio-visual form...