The screening will be held in partnership with the Tagore Society of Singapore, chaired by Dolly Davenport, the festival authorities said.
Kolkata: Tagore’s dance-drama Rakta Karabi, made into a film for the first time, has been chosen as the curtain raiser of the South Asian International Film Festival of Singapore in end-August.
The festival authorities communicated it to the film’s director, Amitabha Bhattacharya. He was told that his “brilliant” Bengali film would be screened as the official curtain raiser of the festival on August 26 in Singapore.
The screening will be held in partnership with the Tagore Society of Singapore, chaired by Dolly Davenport, the festival authorities said.
Mr Bhattacharya said that he was very happy about the news. The film features actor Mumtaz Sorcar in the role of Nandini and has a musical score by Debojyoti Mishra. Stage and film actor Kaushik Sen essays the pivotal role of “Bisu Pagol”.
“We have tried to evaluate the present condition of society through interpretation of the text while conforming to the format and essence of the original,” the young director said.
Sorcar, who has also acted in some South Indian films, said, “My character Nandini is a modern-day girl, a typical university-going kind, a revolutionary, definitely a Marxist, who is not bothered about fashion but how the country should be run,” Sorcar said.
“Rakta Karabi”, a highly metaphorical work, had been staged in the past by several famous theatre groups like the “Bohurupee”. It was the first stage adaptation of the dance-drama back in 1954. The latest stage presentation was made in 2010, directed by Goutam Haldar.
