Hirak Rajar Deshe
- Soumitra Chatterjee: Udayan Maharaj
- Utpal Dutta: Diamonds King ( King Hirak )
- Taping Chattopadhyay: Gopinath ( Gupi )
- Rabi Ghosh: Bagha
- Santosh Dutta: King of Shundi, inventor Gabeshak
- Promod Ganguli: Udayans father
- Alpana Gupta: Udayans mother
- Rabin Majumdar: Charandas
- Sunil Sarkar: Fazl Mia
- Nani Ganguli: Balaram
- Ajoy Banerjee: Bidushak
- Kartik Chatterjee: Poet Laureate
- Harindhan Mukherjee: court astrologer
- Bimal Deb, Tarun Mitra, Gopal Dey, Sailen Ganguli, Samir Mukherjee: Minister
Hirak Rajar Deshe ( Bengali: হীরক রাজার দেশে, Hirak Rajar Dese; translated: In the land of the diamond king and In the Land of King Hirak ) is an Indian fairy tale film by Satyajit Ray in 1980, he was for a children's story of Upendrakishore Raychowdhury. .
Action
Ten years have passed since the Kingdom Shundi Gupi and Bagha have married the princesses. Each of them has a child, but they are bored. An invitation from the realm of the diamond king brings variety, they are to Anniversary Celebrations of the Kingdom present their music.
However, the diamond king ( King Hirak ) turns out to be a despotic ruler who squeezes huge taxes from his people and they can toil in its diamond mines. He is convinced that his subjects nevertheless obey, the more they know, and therefore orders the closure of all schools. His defense minister, he asked to remove everything in the kingdom, which could make the festival guests a bad impression. A stroke of luck it is that King Hiraks scientists Gabeshak comes with the news, to have built a brainwashing machine. This will immediately be tried adversely affecting farmers and miners on one. The subjects received a mantra recited after treatment and can no other thought than that take more mantra, which is obviously the praises of King Hirak. As the teacher Udayan teaching is prohibited and the minions of the king burn all the books, he flees and encounters the brainwashed peasants who praises the ruler.
In this situation Gupi and Bagha come into the land of the diamond king. In a crevice at the edge of the kingdom they find Udayan. This is now being sought as the biggest enemy country and informs them about how to King Hirak exploits its population and suppressed by brainwashing the freedom of thought. Shocked consecrate Gupi and Bagha Udayan into their magical powers and promise to help him in the liberation of the people of the tyrant.
At the reception on the occasion of the anniversary they begin, as suggested by Udayan to flatter King Hirak shameless. Your song is full of praise and their singing talents freezes all listeners. In the subsequent unveiling of a larger than life still image of the king, however, the remaining resistance in the Kingdom is revealed - the nose of the statue is shot by a student Udayans with a catapult.
King Hirak leads Gupi and Bagha to their request to one of its diamond mines. He's trying to make a good impression by emphasizing the use of the miners sweaty. Among the workers suddenly appeared on Udayan in disguise and intones a hymn of praise to the king, in incident all workers. He puts Bagha a note in the shoes.
On the evening of the feast day, there are fireworks. Bagha learns from the list that they should meet on a torch characters go against at two in with Udayan on the edge. Also Hirak noticed the torch random characters. Udayan commissioned Gupi and Bagha at the meeting, to get diamonds to bribe the guard and thus allow for an impending workers 'and peasants' revolt. Then Udayan is arrested by the radiation emitted by Hirak guards.
Gupi and Bagha gain access to the treasury of the king and steal the required diamonds. You go to the laboratory of the scientist to brainwash machine because they believe Udayan spent there. They meet only the first sleeping scientists. Flattered by their technical interest of this explained to them how the machine works. The captured Udayan is sent to a brainwashing along with its resistance to the goaded students from the king and his guards, but the bribed with diamonds scientist does not execute the command. Gupi sings instead the diamond king with a song full of accusations of his evil deeds into torpor; Bagha distributed diamonds to bribe the guards. Udayan and the children will be released and put the king and his ministers in their place in the brainwashing machine.
As at the end of the statue of the king is overthrown, King Hirak comes with his ministers brainwashed along and helps to overthrow the monument.
Background
Hirak Rajar Deshe was published on 19 December 1980. It is the sequel to Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968). Both films were based on the children book Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne by Satyajit Ray's grandfather Upendrakishore Raychowdhury. Satyajit Ray's son Sandip in 1991 completed the planned trilogy with Ray Goopy Bagha Phire Elo.
Awards
- National Film Awards 1980 Best Music - Satyajit Ray
- Best Playback Singer - Anup Ghosal
- Best lyrics - Satyajit Ray