Thirteen short films based on Rabindranath Tagore’s poems will be screened over three days at Matunga’s Ramnarain Ruia College starting today. The short films, all made by National Film Award winning director Buddhadeb Dasgupta, explore the main themes of the celebrated bard’s poetry.

Tagore won the Nobel Prize for his collection of poems Gitanjali in 1913. He was the first non-European to win the award in Literature and even today, his poems remain one of the most inspirational works to emerge from Asia. Although Tagore wrote in a Sanskritised version of Bengali, which is difficult to follow even for Bengali speakers, language isn’t a barrier in short films. “Music plays a very important role in all these films, and since there are minimum dialogues, language won’t be a problem,” says Shamali Bose, BMM head,u00a0Ramnarain Ruia College.