Three decades after a challenging interpretation of Rabindranath Tagore's pro-women hero Nikhilesh in Satyajit Ray's Ghare Baire, Victor Banerjee will relive the poet's own deep and sublime relationship with Argentine writer and thinker Victoria Ocampo.

Banerjee was chosen from among stalwarts, such as Amitabh Bachchan, Naseeruddin Shah and Ben Kingsley, to play the role of Tagore in an upcoming Indian-Argentinian co-production. The film, to be directed by Argentine filmmaker Pablo Cesar, will delve into the and relationship between Tagore and Ocampo. Ocampo, whom Tagore addressed in his letters as Bijoya, took care of the poet when he fell ill in Buenos Aires while he was sailing to Peru from Europe in 1924. Tagore spent two months recuperating in a villa in San Isidro in the suburbs of Buenos Aires. Ocampo read French translation of Tagore's Gitanjali in 1914. Tagore dedicated Purabi, a collection of poems and songs, to Ocampo. In 1930, Ocampo organised the poet's first art exhibition in Paris, where they met in person for the second and last time. Argentine actor Eleonara Wexler will play Ocampo in the film that will also have Raima Sen, says JNU alumni and creative director of the film Suraj Kumar.

The 69-year-old Banerjee tells TOI from his Mussorie home that it is an honour to play Kabiguru in an international production. “I am not concerned much about the look. It is not a biopic. It is about Tagore's intellectual pursuit, thought process, his impression on Ocampo. People of Argentina don't recognise Tagore as only a bearded man,“ Banerjee says.