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Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha), 1968 |
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| Getting the boons from the King of the Ghosts, Goopy and Bagha enjoy their first sumptuous lunch in life. |
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Production: Nepal Dutta and Ashim Dutta for Purnima Pictures |
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Story, Screenplay, Decor, Costume, Music and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Based on a story by Upendrakishore Roychaudhuri |
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Photography: Soumendu Roy |
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Art Direction: Bansi Chandragupta |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Sound: Nripen Paul, Atul Chatterjee, Sujit Sarkar |
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Duration:132 mins |
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Date of release in India:8th May 1969. B&W and colour |
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Cast: Tapen Chatterjee (Goopy), Rabi Ghosh (Bagha), Santosh Dutta (King of Shundi/King of Halla), Jahar Roy (Prime Minister of Halla), Santi Chatterjee (Commander-in-Chief of Halla), Harindranath Chattopadhyay (Barfi, the Magician), Chinmoy Roy (Spy of Halla), Durgadas Banerjee (King of Amloki), Gobinda Chakravarti (Goopy’s father), Prasad Mukherjee (King of Ghosts), Haridhan Mukherjee, Abani Chatterjee, Khagen Pathak, Binoy Bose, Prasad Mukherjee (Village elders), Joykrishna Sanyal, Tarun Mitra, Ratan Banerjee, Kartick Chatterjee (Singers at the court of Shundi), Gopal Dey (Executioner), Ajoy Banerjee, Sailen Ganguli, Moni Srimani, Binoy Bose, Kartick Chatterjee (Visitors to Halla). |
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| Awards |
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President’s Gold and Silver Medals, New Delhi, 1968 |
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Award for Best Direction, New Delhi, 1968 |
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Silver Cross, Adelaide Film Festival, 1969 |
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Best Director, Auckland Film Festival, 1969 |
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Merit Award, Tokyo Film Festival, 1970 |
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Best Film, Melbourne Film Festival, 1970 |
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The bad king, generally polite, starts gnashing
his teeth just after drinking a trickle of
the magician’s potion. |
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Getting the job of the court-singers, Goopy and Bagha sing for the good king. |
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| The Story |
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| The action occurs in an imaginary land. Goopy the singer and Bagha the drummer are untalented musicians whose playing provokes as much ridicule from the peasants as it does contempt from the king. The only audience they manage to charm is the ghosts. Wearing magic sandals, they arrive in the kingdom of Shundi where, to everyone's amazement, the ruler admires their music. |
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| Meanwhile, the king of the neighbouring realm of Halla, who is the twin brother of the king of Shundi, wants to declare war. Goopy and Bagha do everything in their power to dissuade him, and finally it is their singing that demobilizes the troops at the last moment. Reconciled, the twin brothers offer to reward Goopy and Bagha with their daughters in marriage. |
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The fat minister, the conspirator, with his
accomplice, Borfi, a magician and alchemist. |
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| Contributed by DKB and AKD |
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