Hirak Rajar Deshe

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Movie
Original title হীরক রাজার দেশে
(Hirak Rajar Deshe)
Country of production India
original language Bengali
Publishing year 1980
length 112 minutes
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Director Satyajit Ray
script Satyajit Ray
production West Bengal Government
music Satyajit Ray
camera Soumendu Ray
cut Dulal Dutta
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chronology

←  Predecessor
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne

Successor  →
Goopy Bagha Phire Elo

Hirak Rajar Deshe ( Bengali : হীরক রাজার দেশে , hīrak rājār deśe ; translated: In the Land of the Diamond King or In the Land of King Hirak ) is an Indian fairy tale film by Satyajit Ray from 1980. It was based on a children's story by Upendrakishore Raychowdhury .

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Ten years have passed in the Kingdom of Shundi since Gupi and Bagha each married a princess. Each of them has a child, but they are bored. An invitation from the kingdom of the diamond king brings variety, they should perform their music for the annual celebration of the kingdom.

The diamond king ( King Hirak) turns out to be a despotic ruler who squeezes enormous taxes out of his population and lets them toil in his diamond mines. He is also convinced that the more his subjects obey, the less they obey, and so orders the closure of all schools. He instructs his defense minister to remove everything in the kingdom that could make a bad impression on the guests. King Hirak's scientist Gabeshak reports that he built a brainwashing machine. This is immediately tried out on a complaining farmer and a miner. The test subjects are told a mantra and after the treatment can no longer form any other thought than the mantra that is in praise of King Hirak. When the teacher Udayan is forbidden to teach and the king's henchmen burn all the books, he flees and meets the brainwashed peasant who praises the ruler.

In this situation, Gupi and Bagha come to the land of the Diamond King. They find Udayan in a crevice on the edge of the kingdom. This is now sought as the greatest enemy of the country and explains how King Hirak exploits his people and suppresses freedom of thought through brainwashing. Shocked, Gupi and Bagha Udayan initiate their magic powers and promise to help him free the population from the tyrant.

At the reception on the occasion of the annual celebration, as suggested by Udayan, they begin to shamelessly flatter King Hirak. Her song is full of praise and her singing skills freeze all listeners. At the subsequent, solemn unveiling of a larger than life statue of the king, however, the still existing resistance in the kingdom becomes apparent - the nose of the statue is shot down with a catapult by a student of Udayan.

King Hirak leads Gupi and Bagha to one of his diamond mines at their request. He tries to make a good impression by highlighting the sweaty work of the miners. Udayan suddenly appears among the workers in disguise and starts a hymn of praise to the king, which all workers join in. He puts a note in Bagha's shoes.

On the evening of the holiday there is a fireworks display. From the note, Bagha learns that, at a torch signal, they should meet with Udayan at the edge of the forest at two at night. Hirak also happens to notice the torch sign. Udayan instructs Gupi and Bagha at the meeting to get diamonds to bribe the overseers and thus enable an impending workers 'and peasants' uprising. Udayan is then arrested by the guards sent by Hirak.

Gupi and Bagha gain access to the king's treasury and steal the diamonds they need. They go to the scientist's laboratory and go to the brainwashing machine there, believing that Udayan was there. You only meet the sleeping scientist. Flattered by their technical interest, he explains how the machine works. The captured Udayan and his disciples, incited to resist, are brainwashed by the king and his guards, but the diamond-bred scientist does not carry out the order. Gupi instead sings the Diamond King with a song full of accusations in rigor; Bagha gives out diamonds to the guards as a bribe. Udayan and the children are released, and the king and his ministers are put in the brainwashing machine in their stead.

When the statue of the king is overturned at the end, King Hirak and his ministers arrive and, as he is brainwashed, help overturn the monument.

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Hirak Rajar Deshe was released on December 19, 1980. It is the sequel to Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne (1968). Both films were based on the children's book Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne by Satyajit Ray's grandfather Upendrakishore Raychowdhury . In 1991, Satyajit Ray's son Sandip Ray completed the planned trilogy with Goopy Bagha Phire Elo .

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  1. ↑ http://www.banglalive.com/soumitralive/career_film_list.asp?year=1980 ( Memento from December 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

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