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Production: The Government of West Bengal |
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Screenplay, Music and Direction: Satyajit Ray |
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Based of Ray’s own novel |
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Art Direction: Ashoke Bose |
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Editing: Dulal Dutta |
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Sound: J.D. Irani, Anil Talukdar |
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Duration: 120 mins |
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Date of release in India: 17th December, 1974. Colour |
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| Feluda, the sleuth, meets Mukul for the first time. |
The Story
A parapsychologist discovers that the drawings of the child Mukul represent scenes from a former life. It emerges that everything had taken place in a fortress, where the boy's father had worked as a gem cutter. The child is led to places in Rajastan where such an environment might be found. Alerted to this strange phenomenon by newspaper reports, some bandits kidnap the boy. The detective Feluda is engaged, along with his assistant Tapesh, to recover the child. |
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| Mukul, a five-year-old, remembers a golden fortress from his previous birth. |
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Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee ( Prodosh (Felu) Mitter ), Santosh Dutta ( Lalmohan (Jatayu) Ganguli ), Siddhartha Chatterjee (Tapesh Mitter, known as Topse), Kushal Chakravarti (Mukul Dhar), Sailen Mukherjee (Dr Hemanga Hazra), Ajoy Banerjee (Amiyanath Burman), Kamu Mukherjee (Mandar Bose), Santanu Bagchi (Mukul 2), Harindranath Chattopadhyay (Uncle Sidhu), Sunil Sarkar (Sudhir Dhar, Mukul's father), Shiuli Mukherjee (Mukul's mother), Haradhan Banerjee (Tapesh's father), Rekha Chatterjee (Tapesh's mother), Ashok Mukherjee (journalist), Bimal Chatterjee (Advocate). |
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| Awards |
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Government of West Bengal Award for Best Film and Best Director, 1974 |
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President’s Silver Medal, New Delhi, 1974 |
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Best Colour Photography, Best Director, Best Screenplay, New Delhi, 1974 |
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Golden Statue for ‘Best Live Feature Film’, Tenth Teheran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults, 1975 |
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The popular writer of thrillers is happy
seeing the child smiling resolve not to recall
his earlier birth anymore and want to return
to his parents in Calcutta |
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