(6 May 2012) 1. Wide of Bangabandhu International Conference Centre
2. Wide of Indian finance minister Pranab Mukherjee and Prime minister of Bangladesh Sheikh Hasina entering the venue
3. Mid of Mukherjee and Hasina as the Bangladeshi National Anthem is played
4. Wide of audience
5. Mid of Mukherjee
6. Wide of Mukherjee walking towards dais for speech
7. SOUNDBITE: (Bangla) Pranab Mukherjee, Indian Finance Minister:
"The joint celebration of Gurudev Rabindranath Tagore''''''''s 150th birth anniversary is an historic event in the field of cultural relations between India and Bangladesh. It certainly has strengthened the bilateral relations and in future it will contribute more."
8. Wide of audience
9. Cutaway of Bangladesh Prime Minister, Sheikh Hasina
10. SOUNDBITE: (Bangla) Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh:
"Poet Rabindranath Tagore is a poet of Bengal, a poet of Bengalis. He is a poet of humanity and world peace. Bangladesh and India were fields of his creation. They were birthplace of his literary creation. His works have made bridge between Bangladesh and India. National anthems of these two countries are written by this poet."
11. Mid of Bollywood actress Sharmila Tagore (great-grand niece of poet Rabindranath Tagore)
12. Wide of ministers and delegates
13. Mid of Tagore reciting a Rabindranath Tagore poem
14. Wide of group performing a Tagore song in group
15. Various of Bangladeshi dance troupe
16. Close-up of dancer
17. Wide of audience
STORYLINE
Indian Finance minister Pranab Mukherjee on Sunday attended the ceremonial end to a year-long celebration of the 150th anniversary of the birth of Nobel laureate Rabindranath Tagore, a poet revered in India and Bangladesh.
Mukherjee called the celebration "an historic event in the field of cultural relations between India and Bangladesh".
Born in Calcutta, Tagore moved to Santiniketan, West Bengal in 1901 to set up an ashram.
He became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913.
"Poet Rabindranath Tagore is a poet of Bengal, a poet of Bengalis. He is a poet of humanity and world peace. Bangladesh and India were fields of his creation. They were birthplace of his literary creation," the Prime Minister of Bangladesh, Sheikh Hasina, told guests at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre in Dhaka.
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