The meeting of two Annas in the capital

Social activist Anna Hazare (left) with director and actor Shashank Udapurkar who plays Anna in his biopic of the same name. The duo met at a promotional event in New Delhi. The film releases on October 14

An international biopic on Tagore

Time and again Rabindranath Tagore has been captured on screen, be it him or his works. Now Argentine filmmaker takes one step ahead by being the first director to make an English biopic on the Nobel laureate.

An Indo-Argentine production, Thinking of Him is director Pablo Cesar's tribute to Tagore and stars Victor Banerjee as Tagore and Raima Sen in the lead. Backed by the Argentine government which is investing in movie, Thinking of Him will also be made in Spanish and Bengali apart from English. The film will be shot in West Bengal, Argentina, and France.

Shooting begins in Shantiniketan, where Tagore spent a large chunk of his life, from September 5.