The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha

Name: The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha
Genre: Drama,Family,SciFi/Fantasy
Released: 1968
Duration: 132 min
Cast: Rabi Ghosh, Iva Banerjee, Tapan Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta, Ajoy Banerjee

1968 Drama | Family | SciFi/Fantasy

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Ray's children's fantasy is his first major commercial success and became a cult movie in Bengal. It is a fairy-tale about ghosts and kings written originally by his grandfather and published in 1914. The impoverished amateur musicians Goopy (T. Chatterjee) and Bagha (R. Ghosh), banished for their inept playing, receive a magic pair of slippers from an animated ghost-king which allow them to travel anywhere they like.

Director

Satyajit Ray

Actors

Rabi Ghosh

Iva Banerjee

Tapan Chatterjee

Santosh Dutta

Ajoy Banerjee

Tapen Chatterjee

Harindranath Chattopadhyay

Part of: Goopy Bagha Trilogy

Satyajit Ray's Goopy-Bagha trilogy of films make some minor changes from the original story. The friends are called Gopinath Gyne (Goopy) and Baghanath Byne (Bagha). The instrument Bagha plays is a dhol rather than a dholak - that's a slightly different type of double-ended drum, struck with a drum-stick on one end and the hand on the other. Goopy was played by Tapen Chatterjee and Bagha was played by the popular comedian Robi Ghosh. The films were basically made keeping the young viewers in mind and are strewn with elements of comedy and hilarious scenes. This series of musical comedies is interspersed with wonderful songs, written and composed by Ray himself, and sung by Anup Ghosal. The trilogy comprises the movies: Goopy Gyne O Bagha Byne (The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha) Hirak Rajar Deshe (The Kingdom of Diamonds) Goopy Bagha Phire Elo (The Return of Goopy and Bagha)