Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

  • Taping Chattopadhyay: Gopinath ( Gupi )
  • Rabi Ghosh: Bagha
  • Santosh Dutta: King of Halla, King of Shundi
  • Jahar Ray: First Minister of Halla
  • Harindranath Chattopadhyay: Wizard Borfi

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne ( Bengali: গুপী গাইন ও বাঘা বাইন, gupi GAIN O Bagha Bain; translated: about Gupi sing and Bagha plays ) is an Indian fairy tale film by Satyajit Ray in 1968, he was for a children's story of Upendrakishore Raychowdhury. .

Action

The simple-minded Gupi has been given a tanpura and singing with little talent but lots of enthusiasm and wakes his king on it. As punishment, he is mocked and expelled from the country.

In a forest, he encounters the sleeping Bagha, of a passionate but equally untalented drummer is ( plays Dhol ) and the same fate had befallen. Together they draw go and witness a ghost dance. The King of the Forest Spirits grants them 3 wishes. They desire to never have to worry about enough food and clothing, to see the world and people can enjoy with their music. You need for a meal each clap their hands, get magic shoes (a kind of seven-league boots ) and the gift to enchant with singing and drum people.

Having already tried the food, they get news of a singing contest in the Kingdom Shundi. They do not know where that is, but the magic shoes to help them. When they are with their performance tuned, they inspire all, especially the King of Shundi, who then takes as a court musician in his services.

The King of Halla, twin brother of the King of Shundi and the first of his ministers and the magician Borfi compelled by magic potion this explains Shundi the war. The King of Shundi promises one of them his daughter, the princess Monimala if Gupi and Bagha can prevent war. With her ​​magic shoes, they are immediately in Halla and keep up with their song again and again the war preparations. In a meadow asleep but are then captured. From prison they can finally escape by conjure up a sumptuous meal and thus let the famished prison guard forget his task; he concludes that dungeon and plunges flee greedily eating during Gupi and Bagha. In time they reach their shoes and drum still on that meadow and the army of camels can stop them. With falling from the sky candy the soldiers are distracted and Gupi and Bagha fly with the king of Halla by Shundi where it is pleased with the encounter with his brother and confesses to have been made by the First Minister and the magician Borfi docile.

Bagha is now on the hand of the princess, the King of Shundi think you have actually thought of as Gupi. After initial lamenting, Bagha is satisfied with the offered by the king of Halla daughter Muktomala and pick it up from Halla. As Gupi and Bagha, as requested by them, may see the faces of princesses, there is a color scene as a happy ending.

Children's Film

This children's film is the most commercially successful film of Satyajit Ray's and was extremely popular in Bengal. The same story used by his grandfather Ray Upendrakishore Raychowdhury is rooted in the tradition of Bengali fairy tales, where forest spirits ( Bhuts ), and the " three wishes " an integral part of the repertoire. Noteworthy is the ghost dance scene, artistically ambitious and with the resources available ( negative film, dance, puppets and Indian percussion instruments ) is well done.

A sequel based on the same literary text emerged in 1980 under the title Hirak Rajar Deshe than color film. Satyajit Ray's son Sandip in 1991 completed the planned trilogy with Ray Goopy Bagha Phire Elo.

Awards

  • National Film Awards, New Delhi 1969 President's Gold Medal for Best Picture
  • 1970 President's Gold and Silver Medals for Best Director and Best Film in Bengali

The film also took part in the competition at the Berlinale in 1969, was at the award ceremony but left empty-handed.

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