![]() ![]() ![]() While he returned to Kolkata after some official work, he’s looking forward to heading to Goa next week to present his movie. But he was mainly a classical writer and poet who broke all the norms and went in other directions, including stretching science to philosophy,” he says. He did abstract paintings which we now call modern art. In fact, the last 10 years of his life was when he started painting in a big way. “Many in Kolkata are fond of Tagore but don’t really know much about his personal life. Viswanathan found this piece of information interesting and decided to work on a documentary called The Poet and the Universe. He introduced it to Tagore,” the director adds. “During my research, I found that his interest in science was because of his father who himself was apt with astronomy. He deals with complex concepts of those days and wrote it in the late ’70s,” says Viswanathan, who has delved deep into these complex ideas.Īlso read: The International Film Festival of India to pay tribute to Satyajit Ray “It’s a little known fact that Tagore dwelled on this topic, and in fact, he wrote a book on science called Visva Parichay. Interestingly, he’s also worked on a film for SRFTI called The Poet and the Universe which deals with Rabindranath Tagore’s engagement with science. ![]()
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