Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
Release Date:8 May 1969
Director :Satyajit Ray
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 Gyne Bagha
Byne series.
The film was based on the characters Goopy
Gyne and Bagha Byne.The movie ran for 51
straight weeks.lt 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.
The story revolves around Gopinath Gyne
alias Goopy.(Tapen Chatterjee), the son of a
poor grocer Kanu Kyne from a village called
Amloki. Goopy wants to become a singer but
unfortunately, he sings terribly without
melody, rhythm or tune. Goopy does so and
is driven out of Amloki on a donkey for
waking up the king with his terrible singing
Exiled into a forest, he meets Bagha
Bayen(Rabi Ghosh), another exile from
nearby village Hortuki. Bagha has been exiled
for playing the drum badly. They soon make
a team after encountering a tiger and start
singing and drumming, initially to scare offF
the tiger, but in the process attract a group of
ghosts who are fascinated by their music.
The pair travel to Shundi, where a benevolent
king appoints them court musicians.
However, the king of Halla (the long lost twin
brother of the king of Shundi and both played
by (Santosh Dutta), is planning to attack
Shundi, after being poisoned by his chief
minister (Jahor Roy) with the help of a magic
potion that makes him evil. He is aided by a
senile sorcerer(Harindranath
Chattopadhyay),who recipes that evil potion
and also the potion that has made all the
Shundi people mute.Goopy and Bagha travel
to Halla in an attempt to prevent the attack,
but are captured instead. They also lose their
slippers when captured and hence cannot
escape the jail by magic, but manage to do
so by strategy of luring the famished
gatekeeper (Nripati Chatterjee) with delicious
foods. Next, they wish for unlimited food and
sweets which rain from the sky on the
starving soldiers who forget the battle and
settle for filling the bellies. Not only this, their
evil effects of the
singing takes
potion
given to the King of Halla, who drops the idea
of capturing Shundi, and reunites happily
with his brother. For averting the war, the two
kings of Shundi and Halla respectively marry
their daughters to Goopy and Bagha.