Kadambari

Date/Time
Date(s) - 31/01/2016
6:00 pm

Location
AFP Auditorium

Categories

• Screening

Kadambari  –  Suman Ghosh, Bengali, 90 min

The story of Kadambari Devi and her relationship with her husband’s youngest brother Rabindranath Tagore has been written about, speculated upon, discussed, critiqued, analysed and decoded endlessly over the years. Out-of-the-box filmmaker Suman Ghosh has the courage of his convictions to place this very controversial story in Kadambari. Kadambari was married to Jyotirindranath Tagore at the tender age of nine. She was the daughter of the Tagore family’s accountant and therefore, somewhat looked down upon by the other women in the Tagore home except her husband’s sister Swarnakumari Devi. She found a like-minded friend in Robi, a little younger than she was. They played together, read together and grew up together creating a strange bond that defied definition or description and reached beyond relationships created through marriage. She loved her husband Jyotirindranath who, busy with his ambitious but bound-to-fail business projects and involvement in theatre, had little time for his much younger wife. Robi in the meantime, was slowly but surely growing up into a poet and in Kadambari, he found his creative muse, dedicating most of his creative writing to her. The depth of the relationship unfolds itself, layer by little layer. Though Kadambari gradually falls in love with Robi, for Robi, she is little more than the poet’s muse and inspiration. He understands her better than others do but he is so sucked into his creative world that falling in love does not wall within that orbit.