Tagore represents this unshakable faith in human goodness, in man’s future, and in man’s capacity to transcend the barriers of regional or personal or even paroquial limitations ‘_ In this long excerpt Soumitra talks about the subtleties of the Bengali language the subtitles can’t convey, about his collaboration with Madhabi Mukherjee, about Tagore’s influence on Ray, about Ray’s handling of the camera, and during a tea break, starts reflecting on today’s Calcutta. ( interview recorded in 1999 at Jorasanko Thakurbari, north Calcutta )

this short film is branch#58 of a big tree entitled ‘memories of ray’