Rabindranath Tagore is one of India’s greatest poets and Asia’s first Nobel Laureate. The house where he was born, now a museum, had his Nobel medal stolen from it in 2004, and its whereabouts remain a mystery to this day. [Nobel Thief] begins with this event. Bhanu, a poor farmer, stumbles across the medal, dropped by a thief. Having no idea what this is, he seeks counsel from the principal of village school and decides to go to Kolkata to return the medal to the government. But the temptation to secretly sell it in order to escape his crushing poverty is overwhelming. What will he do with it in metropolitan city of Kolkata, which he visits for the first time? [Nobel Thief] is Suman Ghosh’s third film. It was motivated by a true event?the theft of Tagore’s Nobel Prize?and paints a keen portrait if today’s India, suffering from poverty, based firmly in Tagore’s universal humanism. (KIM Byeongcheol)