Natir Puja

Natir Puja (English:the dancing girl's worship) is the only film where Rabindranath Tagore is credited as director.

[4][5] The dramatized version of Tagore's Natir Puja was first staged at Rabindranath's own home Uttorayan, Konarak Rabindrabhaban, Santinikatan in 1933.

[2] At the end of 1931, Tagore came to Kolkata (then Calcutta) from Santiniketan to perform a stage production of his 1926 dance drama.

[1] The Bengalee newspaper wrote in their review:[1] As everyone knows, apart from the charm lent to it by the Poet, the story has an intense appeal of its own.

To Rabindranath belongs the credit for revival of this ancient Indian art and its inclusion in this film must give an opportunity to many who have not seen it danced by the poet and his pupils during the seasonal festivals he is in the habit of celebrating in Calcutta to see and admire these dances.This is the only film where Rabindranath Tagore is credited as director.

Title card of the dance-drama