About the film

Asia’s first-ever Nobel laureate and Indian literary icon Rabindranath Tagore had written more than 2000 songs and touched the hearts and souls of millions across the globe for more than a century. However, little did the multi-faceted universalist from India know that many decades after his death, a young composer in faraway Russia would find the perfect words for his magnum opus song in Tagore’s writing.
A young Alexey Rybnikov created the most magical song of his life that not only became a chartbuster in the erstwhile Soviet Union but remains a classic after many decades. The story of Tagore’s unknowingly contribution to the Russian-language song, Poslednyaya Poema or the Last Poem, however, stayed inconspicuous for many years until a global entrepreneur, Suvra Chakraborty, from the Indian legend’s birthplace of Kolkata, discovered the fascinating connection during a business visit to, of all places, Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, by a sheer stroke of luck.

Featuring: Alexey Rybnikov | Farrukh Zakirov | Lagnajita Chakraborty