Rituparno Ghosh was one of the most acclaimed film directors of India, and was himself an admirer of Satyajit Ray. He was one of fascinated director on Tagore ever. He started with the great novel 'Choker Bali' to portray Rabindronath. On Other side he also used Tagore's song, story, drama dance, poetry on various way. His other some remarkable work were 'Noukadubi' which on from another noble of Tagore. One of great drama dance 'Chithrangada' visualized different social issues.
In Tagore’s dance drama, which follows the myth from Mahabharata closely, Chitrangada is a princess of Manipur. Her father, the king, raises her as a son, training her in politics and warfare. “She is conditioned to be a man,” Rudra explains to Kasturi (Raima Sen), a dancer in his troupe. When Chitrangada meets Arjun, she falls in love with him, and seeks the help of Madan or Kamdev, the Hindi god of love, to transform her into a desirable woman, with whom Arjun falls in love. For Rudra, real life imitates the stage, when he meets Partha (Jissu Sengupta), a talented drummer with a heroin addiction who joins the dance troupe.
Partha and Rudra find themselves attracted to each other and start a relationship that is acceptable neither to the other member of the troupe, nor to his parents. One of the dancers asks Rudra if Partha would be able to respect his talent, to value him. “There are lot of people who value me, respect me, but how many have the courage to love?” Rudra replies. When his mother warns him that like all his former lovers, Partha will abandon him and is only taking advantage of his loneliness, Rudra asks what is better ? To be lonely all his life, or to have a companion even for a little while? Perhaps more than everything else, Chitrangada explores the loneliness of its talented and accomplished protagonist. Rudra decides to undergo the sex-change surgery only so that he and Rudra can adopt a child.
On his career of film making he made a biography of Tagore family background and the entire things, which call 'Jibon Smiriti'. It's mainly a written book of Rabinbdranath. His uses of background score on film makes the attention of the audience and the present generation takes it on a different ways nowadays.



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