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Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God), 1978 |
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Production: R.D. Bansal |
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Executive Production: Kamal Bansal |
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Story,Screenplay, Music and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Based on his own novel |
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Photography: Soumendu Roy |
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Art Direction: Ashoke Bose |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Sound: Robin Sengupta |
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Duration: 112 mins |
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Date of release in India:5th January, 1979. Colour |
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| The villain wearing a black coat appears for the first time in the victim’s house and furtively chooses his future accomplice, Bikash, without even staring at him. |
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| Feluda, the sleuth, instantly solves the rhymed puzzle recited to him as a test of ready wit by the five-year-old boy, Ruku. |
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Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee (Pradosh Mitter, known as Felu), Santosh Dutta (Lalmohan Ganguli, known as Jatayu), Siddhartha Chatterjee (Tapesh, known as Topse), Utpal Dutt (Maganlal Meghraj), Jit Bose (Ruku Ghosal), Haradhan Banerjee (Umanath Ghosal), Bimal Chatterjee (Ambika Ghosal), Biplab Chatterjee (Bikash Sinha), Satya Banerjee (Nibaran Chakravarti), Moloy Roy (Gunomoy Bagchi), Santosh Sinha (Shashi Pal), Manu Mukherjee (Machhli Baba), Indubhusan Gujral (Inspector Tewari), Kamu Mukherjee (Arjun). |
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| Awards |
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Best Children’s Film, New Delhi, 1978 |
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Best Film, Hong Kong Film Festival, 1979 |
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| Just before the big knives were started being thrown at him, Jatayu, the popular writer, visualizing his sure death, wants to finish drinking the sweet beverage left in his glass |
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| The Story |
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| The action is set in Benares. The owner of a statuette of Ganesh (the elephant god) is mystified when he receives an offer to purchase the figurine for a price exceeding what would seem to be its reasonable value on the art market. |
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| Feluda, the sleuth, tracks down the accomplice of the smuggler of Indian Art. |
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Why should the object be so desirable? Soon afterwards the statuette is stolen, but the detective Feluda — with his indispensable companion Tapesh at his side, and with the help of a writer, an author of novels for children — attempts to unravel the mystery. A reading of Tintin in the Congo, among other things, turns out to be a great help to them.
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| Contributed by DKB and AKD |
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