<![CDATA[<a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/1S2VDK1uFrE&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/1S2VDK1uFrE&rel=1</a>]]>A poor and naïve villager discovers the stolen Nobel Prize gold medal of Bengali hero Rabindranath Tagore and heads to Kolkata in the hope of returning it.
On the 150th anniversary of the great Bengali writer Rabindranath Tagore, director Suman Ghosh presents a black comedy about the state of the Indian nation, with its increasing divide between the rural poor and the big cities. It also deftly explores the philosophies of one of India's founding fathers who was the first Asian to win a Nobel Prize. In 2004, Tagore's Nobel medal was stolen from a museum and was not seen again. The Nobel Thief is a fictional account of a poor farmer, Bhanu (Mithun Chakraborty), who discovers the gold medal near his impoverished village. His friend the local schoolteacher (Soumitra Chatterjee) informs Bhanu of its importance and states he must return it to its owners, but Bhanu is in two minds whether to sell the medal and help his hungry family, or be the hero of the hour and do the honourable thing. With this dangerous dichotomy in his mind and a police hunt to find the thieves in full swing, naïve Bhanu heads for big city Kolkata armed only with a picture of the great Tagore for protection.
http://www.bfi.org.uk/lff/node/1764
