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Hirak Rajar Deshe (The Kingdom of Diamonds), 1980 |
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Production: The Government of West Bengal |
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Story, Screenplay, Decor, Costume, Music and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Photography: Soumendu Roy |
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Art Director: Ashoke Bose |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Sound: Robin Sengupta, Durgadas Mitra |
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Duration: 118 mins |
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Date of release in India: 19th December, 1980. Colour |
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| Awards |
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Best Music ,National Award, 1980 |
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Best Lyrics,National Award, 1980 |
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Special Award, Cyprus Film Festival, 1984 |
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| Goopy and Bagha try to test whether the three boons given 10 years ago by the King of The Ghosts are still effective or not. |
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| HRD - The king becomes wary of the lyrics sung by Chran Das, the minstrel. |
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Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee (Udayan, the schoolteacher), Utpal Dutt (King Hirak), Tapen Chatterjee (Goopy), Rabi Ghosh (Bagha), Santosh Dutta (King of Shundi/Gabesak, inventor), Pramod Ganguli (Udayan's father), Alpana Gupta (Udayan's mother), Rabin Majumdar (Charandas), Sunil Sarkar (Fazl Mia), Nani Ganguli (Balaram), Ajoy Banerjee (Bidusak), Kartik Chatterjee (Court poet), Haridhan Mukherjee (Court astrologer), Bimal Deb, Tarun Mitra, Gopal Dey, Sailen Ganguli, Samaresh Banerjee, Samir Mukherjee (Ministers). |
| The Story |
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| This film is the sequel to Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne ( The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha ). Ten years have passed in the kingdom of Shundi. Our two heroes have married the princesses and each has a child, but they |
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| The village schoolmaster, Udayan, revolts against the autocracy with the help of students, labourers and peasants. |
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have become bored with their lives. An invitation arrives from the Kingdom of Diamonds, inspiring them to pay a visit to that land. The ruler there behaves despotically, bleeding his people with taxes and exploiting them in his diamond mine; he wants a scientist to build him a brainwashing machine. A teacher, Udayan, tries to incite the people to rise up against this tyrant, but the king closes the schools as the machine invented by the scientist begins to work. In the midst of all this, Goopy and Bagha meet the teacher and join forces with him in order to liberate the populace from their oppressor. |
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| Contributed by DKB and AKD |
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