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Dubai: ‘The wind has blown my name away/And there’s no way back to my desolate land,

If you try too hard to behold me from afar/You’ll never be able to make me out,

My friend, farewell!’

When Rabindranath Tagore penned those immortal lines in his ‘Shesher Kabita’ (The Last Poem) in 1929, little would India’s first Nobel laureate have imagined that after a few decades, a young composer in Russia would create a chartbusting song out of it. Now, nearly 90 years later, a Dubai resident has sought to film the mesmerising story.

For Suvra Chakraborty, a Dubai-based entrepreneur who studied Russian and lived in Ukraine for more than 25 years, the discovery of the Russian trans-creation ‘Poslednyaya Poema’ (The Last Poem) came by a stroke of luck during a business trip to Uzbekistan in 2017.

“I was sitting at a hotel lobby...