Tagore's innovative mind and creative dynamism welcomed the emergence of the cinema as an art form and he clearly perceived the keen link between cinema and commerce. He did not take long to realize that making a film was not like writing a novel.
Rabindranath Tagore encountered the strength and power of cinema as a tool of mass communication and initially entered the film industry as a story writer in the silent film era. However, his direct participation in cinema was just a brief period.
Natir Puja was the only film Rabindranath Tagore directed. Based on his poem, Pujarini, it marked quite a number of firsts from putting a marginalised woman in the centre of the narrative to the unconventional shooting technique
