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{{short description|1969 film by Satyajit Ray}}
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{{Infobox film
| name = Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
| image = GOOPI GYNE BAGHA BYNE - DVD COVER.jpg
| image_size =
| caption = DVD Cover for Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne
| director = [[Satyajit Ray]]
| producer = Purnima Pictures (Nepal Dutta, Asim Dutta)
| writer = Satyajit Ray
| based_on = ''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne'' by Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury
| narrator =
| starring = [[Tapen Chatterjee]], [[Rabi Ghosh]], [[Santosh Dutta]], [[Harindranath Chattopadhyay]], [[Jahor Roy]], Santi Chatterjee, [[Chinmoy Roy]]
| music = Satyajit Ray
| cinematography = [[Soumendu Roy]]
| editing = [[Soumodip Mridha]]
| distributor =
| released = {{Film date|df=y|1969|05|08}}
| runtime = 120 minutes
| country = [[India]]
| language = [[Bengali language|Bengali]]
| budget = [[Indian rupee|Rs.]] 600,000 ($80,000)<ref>{{cite web|title=exchange rate| url=http://fxtop.com/en/currency-converter-past.php?A=100&C1=USD&C2=INR&DD=08&MM=05&YYYY=1969&B=1&P=&I=1&btnOK=Go%21}}</ref>
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'''''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne''''' ([[Bengali language|Bengali]]: গুপী গাইন বাঘা বাইন [[Romanization of Bengali|''Gupi Gain Bagha Bain'']]) is a 1969 Indian [[Fantasy film|fantasy]] [[Adventure film|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, followed by a couple of sequels - ''[[Hirak Rajar Deshe]]'' was released in 1980 and ''[[Goopy Bagha Phire Elo]]'', written by Ray but directed by his son [[Sandip Ray]], 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)|Sandesh]]'' magazine in 1915, with illustrations by Ray's grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury.{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=183}} 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'.{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=183}} This was matched by Ray's own desire to make a movie that, unlike his previous movies, 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.{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=183}}{{sfn|Ray|2013|p=45}} Ray managed to convince producers to finance the movie, even though it was clear from the beginning that the film would cost a lot of money. {{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=184}}

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.<ref name="official">{{cite web|url=http://www.satyajitray.org/films/goopy.htm|title=Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne|access-date=11 September 2014}}</ref>{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=184}} It won the [[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]] and [[National Film Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]] awards at the [[16th National Film Awards]], and went on to win many other international awards as well.<ref name="16thawardPDF">{{cite web|url=http://dff.nic.in/2011/16th_nff_1970.pdf|title=16th National Film Awards|publisher=Directorate of Film Festivals|access-date=22 September 2011|pages=2, 4}}</ref> Critical reception was highly positive. Raja Sen called it to be the most innovative movie to have ever come out of India.<ref name=rajasen>{{cite web|url=http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/take/one/full_list.php3?category=10 |title=An ode to Bagha & Goopy |access-date=11 September 2014 |year=2007 |work=Rediff.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070826201343/http://www.villagevoice.com/specials/take/one/full_list.php3?category=10 |archive-date=26 August 2007 }}</ref> [[Phil Hall (US writer)|Phil Hall]] said that the movie "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."<ref name = philhall>{{cite web|url=http://www.filmthreat.com/features/1939/|title=THE BOOTLEG FILES: "GOOPY GYNE BAGHA BYNE"|access-date=11 September 2014 |year=2007 |work=Rediff.com}}</ref>

{{Listen
| image = none
| filename = Gupi Gayen Bagha Bayen - Bhuter rajar bar (Satyajit Ray).ogv
| title = The king of ghosts grants Goopy and Bagha three boons
| alt = The king of ghosts grants Goopy and Bagha three boons scene,
| description = A clipping from the film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne where the king of ghosts ("bhuter raja") grants Goopy and Bagha three boons. Significantly Satyajit Ray used his own voice for the voice of the king of ghosts ("bhuter raja"). In these scenes, the king of ghosts is speaking in rhyme. In 1980, Ray made a sequel to Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, [[Hirak Rajar Deshe]], in this film too, most of the dialogues exchanged by the protagonists of the film were rhyming.

Satyajit Ray praised S.V.Rau (Rauko) for the ghost dance effect by calling it a technical feat.
}}

==Story==
The story revolves around Gopinath Gyne alias Goopy ([[Tapen Chatterjee]]), the son of a poor grocer Kanu Kyne from a village called [[Indian gooseberry|Amloki]]. Goopy wants to become a singer, but unfortunately, he sings terribly without melody, rhythm or tune. The village elders wanting to have fun, persuade him to sing for the king in the early morning hours right under His Majesty's bedroom window. Goopy does so and is driven out of Amloki on a donkey for waking up the king with his terrible singing. Exiled to 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 the team after encountering a tiger and start singing and drumming, initially to scare off the tiger, but in the process attract a group of [[Ghosts in Bengali culture|ghosts]] who are fascinated by their music. Happy with their performance, the king of the ghosts (Bhooter Raja) grants them three boons, all of which are only available to both as a pair (they cannot use them individually).

* They can get food and clothes whenever needed by clapping one hand with each other.
* They are given a pair of magic slippers with which they can travel anywhere (again, they need to clap one hand with each other while wearing the shoes and say the name of the place they want to go to).
* They become flawless musicians and gain the ability to hold people in awe (literally, their music renders people motionless) with their music.

The pair travel to [[Shundi (fictional kingdom)|Shundi]], where a benevolent king appoints them court musicians. However, the king of [[Halla (fictional kingdom)|Halla]] (the long lost twin brother of the king of Shundi, 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 has created the 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 the strategy of luring the famished gatekeeper ([[Nripati Chatterjee]]) with delicious foods. They arrive singing and drumming when the soldiers are about to launch their attack, rendering the army motionless. 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 their bellies. Not only this, their singing takes off the evil effects of the 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.

==Cast==

* [[Tapen Chatterjee]] - Goopy Gyne
* [[Rabi Ghosh]] - Bagha Byne
* [[Santosh Dutta]] - King of Shundi / King of Halla
* [[Harindranath Chattopadhyay]] - Borfi (The Magician)
* Ajoy Banerjee - Visitor to Halla
* Ratan Banerjee - Court singer at Shundi
* Durgadas Bannerjee - King of Amloki
* Binoy Bose - Village elder / visitor to Halla
* Govinda Chakravarti - Goopy's father
* Abani Chatterjee - Village elder
* Kartik Chatterjee - Court singer at Shundi / visitor to Halla
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* Santi Chatterjee - Commander of Halla army
* Gopal Dey - Executioner
* Shailen Ganguli - Visitor to Halla
* [[Jahor Roy]] - Prime Minister of Halla
* Tarun Mitra - Court singer at Shundi
* Haridhan Mukherjee - Village elder
* Prasad Mukherjee - King of ghosts / village elder (bhoot er raja)
* Khagen Pathak - Village elder
* [[Chinmoy Roy]] - Spy of Halla
* Joykrishna Sanyal - Court singer at Shundi
* Mani Srimani - Visitor to Halla

==Production==

=== Origins ===

Around 1967, Ray started toying with the idea of creating a film based on extra terrestrial creatures on earth, and wrote a screenplay to that effect.<ref name = philhall/> [[Marlon Brando]] and [[Peter Sellers]] were supposed to star in lead roles in the movie.<ref name = ettimes>{{cite web|url=http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Close-encounters-with-native-E-T-finally-real/articleshow/42443247.cms?|title=Close encounters with native E.T. finally real|access-date=11 September 2014 |year=2003 |work=The Times of India}}</ref><ref name = etgrant>{{cite web|url=http://www1.ucsc.edu/currents/01-02/09-17/ray.html|title=Satyajit Ray Collection receives Packard grant and lecture endowment|access-date=11 September 2014 |year=2001 |work=The Times of India}}</ref> However, things did not turn out well between him and [[Columbia Pictures]], and the project was shelved. Unable to make a fantasy movie in [[Hollywood]], Ray decided to make one in India instead. He intended to reach a wider audience with this movie, prompted in part by the lukewarm box office performance of his previous movies [[Kapurush]], [[Mahapurush]] and [[Nayak (1966 film)|Nayak]].{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=184}} R.D Bansal, who had produced those movies, became even less enthusiastic when he learnt of the film's estimated budget, and, as Ray told [[Marie Seton]] in December 1967, he spent the remainder of 1967 scouting for finance, and almost reduced to the same situation as he had been during shooting [[Pather Panchali]].{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=184}} Finally, towards the end of 1967, Nepal Dutta and Asim Dutta of ''Purnima Pictures'' agreed to lend some financial help. But since it was not substantial enough to shoot the entire movie in color, Ray decided to do it in black and white and show only the final scene in color.{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=184}}

===Development and filming===

The film's pivotal sequence was a six and a half-minute dance, divided into four numbers, performed by the ghosts of the forest in front of Goopy and Bagha. The numbers were intertwined into a phantasmagoria of contrasting styles and moods.<ref name = philhall/> Ray settled on four classes of ghosts keeping in line with the four common classes in the social hierarchy in [[Hinduism]], "since we have so many class divisions, the ghosts should have the same."{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=187}} Thus came to be included the king and warriors, ''sahibs'', fat people and the common people. Ray decided that the music ought to have "some order, form and precision", instead of being just being "a wooly, formless kind of thing".{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=187}} He remembered a South Indian classical form he had once heard in the Delhi Film Festival, which used 12 musical instruments, of which he selected four. He deliberately avoided melody, because "melody suggests a kind of sophistication".{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=187}} Each class, except the ''sahibs'', was played by actors appropriately dressed and made-up, the ''sahibs'' were shadow-puppets expertly under-cranked to create the illusion. {{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=187}} The dance culminates with the four classes positioned vertically, with the priests at the bottom and the common people at the top, in contrast with the traditional class hierarchy. Ray imagined the caste system upside down in reaction to the evolving nature of power.{{sfn|Banerjee|2009}}

==Soundtrack and other songs==
# ''Bhuter Rajar Bor deoa'' (Rendered by [[Satyajit Ray]], [[Tapen Chatterjee]] and [[Rabi Ghosh]])
# ''Dekhore Nayan Mele'' (Sung by [[Anup Ghoshal]])
# ''Bhuter Raja Dilo Bor'' (Sung by [[Anup Ghoshal]] and [[Rabi Ghosh]])
# ''Maharaja! Tomare Selam'' (Sung by [[Anup Ghoshal]])
# ''Raja Shono'' (Sung by Anup Ghoshal)
# ''Ore Baghare'' (Sung by [[Anup Ghoshal]] and [[Rabi Ghosh]])
# ''O Mantri Moshai'' (Sung by [[Anup Ghoshal]])
# ''Halla Choleche Juddhe'' (Sung by [[Kamu Mukherjee]] and [[Jahor Roy]])
# ''Ek Je Chhilo Raja...'' (Sung by [[Anup Ghoshal]])
# ''Ore Baba Dekho Cheye'' (Sung by [[Anup Ghoshal]])

==Critical reception==

Critical response was generally positive, with the length and special effects being the main points of criticism. Dennis Schwartz wrote that "Its only fault is that I thought it was too lengthy to hold the attention of children. But the appealing film dazzles with Ray's lively score that's carried out very well by the film's stars."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://homepages.sover.net/~ozus/adventuresofgoopyandbagha.html|title=Delightful children's film by India's greatest director Satyajit Ray.|access-date=11 September 2014 |year=2014 |work=Ozus' World Movie Reviews}}</ref> [[Lindsay Anderson]] said that it had got lovely things in it, but it went on for too long.{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=182}} A critic, writing for [[The Guardian]], said that this was "Satyajit Ray at his least convincing". [[The Observer]] wrote that "perhaps it would appeal to singularly unfidgety children". [[The Times]] observed, "Ray is a true poet of the cinema, but he finds his poetry in everyday reality; in all-out fantasy, he seems somewhat prosaic". It was, however, a smash hit at home. Ray later wrote to [[Marie Seton]], "It is extraordinary how quickly it has become part of popular culture. Really there isn't a single child who doesn't know and sing the songs".{{sfn|Robinson|2004|p=182}}<ref name=official/>

==Awards and honors==

At the [[16th National Film Awards]].<ref name="16thawardPDF"/> the movie won two major awards:

*[[National Film Award for Best Feature Film|Best Feature Film]]
*[[National Film Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]

It won 4 international awards :

*The Silver Cross at [[Adelaide]]
*Best director at [[Auckland Festival|Auckland Film Festival]]
*Best film at [[Melbourne International Film Festival]]
*Merit Award in [[Tokyo]]

It was also nominated for the [[Golden Bear]] at the [[19th Berlin International Film Festival|Berlin Film Festival]].

==Preservation==
The [[Academy Film Archive]] preserved ''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne'' in 2003.<ref>{{cite web|title=Preserved Projects|url=http://www.oscars.org/academy-film-archive/preserved-projects?title=&filmmaker=satyajit+ray&category=All&collection=All|website=Academy Film Archive}}</ref>

==Remake==
''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne'' was remade into [[Hindi language]] animated film named ''[[Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya]]'', directed by [[Shilpa Ranade]].<ref>[http://www.dubaifilmfest.com/en/films/detail/goopi-gawaiya-bagha-bajaiya/35306/2013 Dubaifilmfest] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140802183739/http://www.dubaifilmfest.com/en/films/detail/goopi-gawaiya-bagha-bajaiya/35306/2013 |date=2 August 2014 }}</ref> It won and was nominated for several international awards.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://dearcinema.com/news/batul-mukhtiar-wins-golden-elephant-kaphal-icffi-2013/1701 |title=Archived copy |access-date=28 July 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140728221059/http://dearcinema.com/news/batul-mukhtiar-wins-golden-elephant-kaphal-icffi-2013/1701 |archive-date=28 July 2014 }}</ref><ref>http://www.animationxpress.com/index.php/latest-news/arjunthe-warrior-prince-goopi-gawaiya-bagha-bajaiya-win-at-18th-intl-childrens-film-festival-india</ref><ref>{{cite web |url= http://www.asiapacificscreenacademy.com/2013/11/2013-asia-pacific-screen-awards-nominees/|title= Full List: 2013 APSA Nominees|access-date= 12 November 2013|work= asiapacificscreenacademy.com}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/omar-and-japan-lead-apsa-nominations|title= Omar and Japan lead APSA nominations|date= 11 November 2013|access-date= 12 November 2013|work= [[Film Business Asia]]|url-status= dead|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20131114232015/http://www.filmbiz.asia/news/omar-and-japan-lead-apsa-nominations|archive-date= 14 November 2013}}</ref><ref>http://www.asiapacificscreenacademy.com/nomsarchive/goopi-gawaiya-bagha-bajaiya-the-world-of-goopi-and-bagha/</ref>

==Sequels==

===''Hirak Rajar Deshe''===
{{main|Hirak Rajar Deshe}}
[[Satyajit Ray]] made a sequel named ''[[Hirak Rajar Deshe]]'', which released eleven years after the release of ''Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne''.

===''Goopy Bagha Phire Elo''===
{{main|Goopy Bagha Phire Elo}}
[[Sandip Ray]], son of director [[Satyajit Ray]] directed another sequel named ''[[Goopy Bagha Phire Elo]]''. The film released twelve years after the release of ''Hirak Rajar Deshe''.

===Future===
[[Sandip Ray]] wants to make another sequel to this series. He had received many requests to make the fourth ''Goopy - Bagha'' movie. Ray said to ''[[The Times of India]]'' about the plot of the fourth film: "Making a Goopy Bagha movie without Tapen and Rabi is unthinkable. The only way I can do a fourth is by taking the story forward and introducing Goopy and Bagha's sons," he said. The idea to weave a story around the next generation came from a line from the introductory song 'Mora Dujonai Rajar Jamai' in 'Hirak Rajar Deshe'—"aar ache polapan, ek khan ek khan... (we have one child each)".<ref>[http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Satyajit-Rays-son-plan-sequel-of-fathers-films/articleshow/23075040.cms Satyajit Ray’s son plan sequel of father’s films]</ref>

==See also==
* [[Gayen]]
* ''[[Pather Panchali]]''

==Notes==
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==References==
{{refbegin}}
* {{cite book|last=Robinson|first=Andrew|title=Satyajit Ray: The Inner Eye|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=TnkcLvYRNfMC|year=1989|publisher=University of California Press|isbn=978-1-860-64965-3}}
* {{cite book|last=Banerjee|first=Deb|title=Powerful and Powerless: Power Relations in Satyajit Ray's Films
|url=http://kuscholarworks.ku.edu/dspace/bitstream/1808/6006/1/Banerjee_ku_0099M_10685_DATA_1.pdf|year=2009|publisher=University of Kansas}}
* {{cite book|last=Ray|first=Satyajit|title=Our Films, Their Films
|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wqMHAQAAIAAJ|year=2013|publisher=Orient BlackSwan}}
{{refend}}

==External links==
*[https://ggbb.nltr.org Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne Website]
::[https://ggbb.nltr.org/node.php?pageno=1&khanda=1 Screenplay]
*[http://www.satyajitray.org/films/goopy.htm Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (SatyajitRay.org)]
*{{IMDb title|0063023}}

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