Marking the 100th year of the 'Bard of Bengal' getting the Nobel medallion, noted Rabindra Sangeet exponents and actors came together to dish out a 3D collage of song-dance-recitation in a unique tribute.
"Though Tagore was primarily awarded the Nobel for the collection of his verses 'Gitanjali' in 1913, but all of us know that he can't be measured by one book, one discipline of art, a few paintings, some articles or just by his idea of a open university," famed Rabindra Sangeet exponent Sraboni Sen said.
"He is so much part of us, our psyche, our identity that he couldn't have been born anywhere else," she said at Sabuj Patro initiative 'Karuna Dharay Esho' (we invoke you in our moments of solitude) - the aesthetic collage to commemorate the year, 1913.
"True that Tagore music is becoming immensely popular, finding more and more acceptance among the audience every passing day. We all know how Tagore's numbers are drawing higher number of listeners, many from the young age group. I recall how the 3000-strong crowd at a play ground went silent when I started singing 'Mamo Chitte....Before the start of a football tournament in Contai sometimes back," she told PTI later.
Sraboni said besides the hummable hundreds of Rabindra Sangeets which pertains to every mood and situation we face in life's course, there are thousand others which again makes one awe-struck and help in rediscovery of every individual."
"We presented an assortment of his best works while keeping the contemporary feel and sincerely feel we have lived up to the expectation of the audience," actor and elocutionist Sreela Majumder, who considers herself film legend Mrinal Sen's discovery, said after her verse rendition.
"The world is yet to fully appreciate Tagore's vision which was essentially to free crativity from every form of domination," Santiniketan-based Sabuj Patro spearhead and Amitabha Samanta said. The organisation has been inspired by litterateur Promothonath Bisi.
"The Nobel Prize in Literature 1913 was awarded to Rabindranath Tagore because of his profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse, by which, with consummate skill, he has made his poetic thought, expressed in his own English words, a part of the literature of the West," the Nobel foundation had said in its citation.
