Film on Rabindranath Tagore's relationship with Victoria Ocampo released in India

A feature film that explores the relationship between Rabindranath Tagore and Argentine author Victoria Ocampo, starring versatile actor Victor Banerjee in the role of the Nobel Laureate, hit cinema halls across India today.

The film, "Thinking of Him", directed by Argetine director Pablo Cesar, features actor Eleonora Wexler of Argentina as Victoria Ocampo.

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The movie has two parallel plots—one featuring Tagore and Victoria and shot in black and white and the other in a contemporary setting with Raima Sen and Hector Bordoni in pivotal roles, which is shot in colour.

The film was shot in Tagore's ancestral house in Jorasanko in Kolkata and Visva Bharati in Santiniketan among other places.

Thinking of Him had a special screening at the Indian Council for Cultural Research (ICCR) in Kolkata on Wednesday last.

"She (Victoria Ocampo) was half his (Tagore's) age when they met. But there was something beyond mere admiration in their relationship. It was, of course, Victoria who organised Tagore's first art exhibition in Paris in 1930," Victor Banerjee said.

In fact, Tagore was 63 and Victoria 34 when the poet had travelled to Argentina in 1924. Victoria had taken care of the poet who had fallen ill during his stay in Argentina.