Creating a feast of images

Leading film director Buddhadeb Dasgupta has selected 13 verses of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore to be made as films as part of the celebrations of the 150th birth anniversary of the poet.
The films will not be more than 30 minutes of duration and Dasgupta, also a poet himself, plans to release them in groups of four or five at a time. The first set of films should be ready for release by March or April next year.
“The poems are so rich in images. The films will be about those interacting with my visions to create another set of images,” Dasgupta said in Kolkata.
“When the Ministry of Culture proposed that a film be made based on Tagore's works, I suggested that we make films based on his poems instead of picking a novel or a story. Many of Tagore's novels have already been made into films,” he said.
These films would not follow a linear storyline. They would be “a feast of images,” he said.
To make the works accessible to a wider audience, the director will make the films in Hindi. “The films would have minimal dialogue. They would not be verbose,” said the director of acclaimed movies like “Grihajuddho”, “Kharij”, “Neem Annapurna”, “Tahader Kotha”, “Kaalpurush”, “Uttara”, “Janala”, “Bagh Bahadur” and “Andhi Gali”.