Kashmakash

Rabindranath Tagore is best understood by the rest of the country in visuals. And Bengali directors have largely done a stupendous job of translating his literature to the silver screen. Subhash Ghai now takes this one step ahead by dubbing Rituparno Ghosh's Nouka Dubi in Hindi, renaming it Kashmakash, and releasing it nationwide. Wise move, you say? Probably, given that Bengali literature at the turn of the 20th century can give any present-day novelist a run for his money.

Set in the early 1920s, the story begins with Ramesh (Jishu Sengupta), a widow-remarriage-p....