Anurag Basu on adapting Rabindranath Tagore’s stories and the genre-defying format of his next film, Jagga Jasoos. Filmmaker Anurag Basu talks about adapting Rabindranath Tagore’s stories and the genre-defying format of his next film, Jagga Jasoos. Every Bengali grows up on Rabindranath Tagore’s work. What are your early recollections? When I was young, Rabindra sangeet used to be so commonplace that I started hating it without understanding it. I discovered Tagore as I grew up. Since we used to live, in Bhilai (Chhattisgarh), not West Bengal, my mother would do these small things to get me closer to Bengali culture; one of which was to make me read Bengali literature. Eventually, I started reading Tagore’s plays. However, I read all his stories about 10 years ago, when I was making shows for television, such as Thriller at 10 and Love Story, that’s when I thought of adapting his work. 

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