The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969)
May 8, 1969Release Date
The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969)
May 8, 1969Release Date
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Cast & Crew.
Tapan Chatterjee
Goopy
Santosh Dutta
King of Shundi / King of Halla
Rabi Ghosh
Bagha
Harindranath Chattopadhyay
The Magician
Ajoy Bandyopadhyay
Visitor to Halla
Iva Banerjee
Actress
Ratan Banerjee
Court singer at Shundi
Durgadas Bandyopadhyay
King of Amloki
Ramen Bhaduri
Actor
Binoy Bose
Village elder
Dilip Bose
Govinda Chakravarti
Goopy's father
Satyajit Ray
Director
Abani Chatterjee
Village elder
Upendra Kishore Raychowdhuri
Writer
Kartik Chatterjee
Court singer at Shundi / visitor to Halla
Asim Dutta
Producer
Nepal Dutta
Producer
Santi Chatterjee
Commander of Halla army
Soumendu Roy
Cinematographer
Gopal Dey
Executioner
Dulal Dutta
Editor
Bansi Chandragupta
ProductionDesigner
Shailen Ganguli
Visitor to Halla
Tarun Mitra
Court singer at Shundi
Haridhan Mukhopadhyay
Village elder
Prasad Mukhopadhyay
King of ghosts / village elder
Khagen Pathak
Village elder
Chinmoy Roy
Spy of Halla
Jahar Roy
Prime Minister of Halla
Joykrishna Sanyal
Court singer at Shundi
Mani Srimani
Visitor to Halla
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Details.
Release DateMay 8, 1969
Original Nameগুপী গাইন বাঘা বাইন
StatusReleased
Running Time2h 12m
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Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne () is a 1969 Indian fantasy adventure comedy film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and based on a story by his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. It is a fantasy-musical film, with the music and lyrics written by Ray himself. This is the first film of the Goopy - Bagha series, and there are two sequels - Hirak Rajar Deshe, which was released in 1980, and Goopy Bagha Phire Elo, written by Satyajit Ray but directed by his son Sandip Ray, which was released in 1992.
The film was based on the characters Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne, who made their first appearance in the Sandesh magazine in 1915, with illustrations by Ray's grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. In 1961, after the revival of Sandesh, Ray began contemplating the idea of making a film based on that story, and he was partly compelled by his son Sandip to make a film which was less 'grim and adult'. This was matched by Ray's own desire to make a movie that, unlike his previous films, would cater to children. Plus, this would also give him an opportunity to lace the story with music and dancing, a point his movies' producers and distributors were always insisting upon. Ray managed to convince producers to finance the film, even though it was clear from the beginning that the film would cost a lot of money.The movie released to great critical and commercial reception, which held the record for longest continuous run of a Bengali-language movie in Bengal, as it ran for 51 straight weeks. It won the Best Feature Film and Best Direction awards at the 16th National Film Awards, and went on to win many other international awards as well. Critical reception was highly positive. Raja Sen called it to be the most innovative film to have ever come out of India. Phil Hall said that the film "comes as a delightful surprise – Ray, it appears, not only possessed a great sense of humor but also enjoyed a stunning talent for musical cinema".