Joi Baba Felunath
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Original title |
জয় বাবা ফেলুনাথ (Joi Baba Felunath) |
Country of production | India |
original language | Bengali |
Publishing year | 1978 |
length | 116 minutes |
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Director | Satyajit Ray |
script | Satyajit Ray |
production | RD Bansal |
music | Satyajit Ray |
camera | Soumendu Roy |
cut | Dulal Dutta |
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Joi Baba Felunath ( Bengali : জয় বাবা ফেলুনাথ , jay bābā phelunāth ; translated: e.g. Heil Baba Felunath ) is an Indian family film by Satyajit Ray from 1978.
action
The film is set in Varanasi . In the house of the Bengali Ghoshal family, shortly before Durga Puja, a sculptor was commissioned to create a statue of Durga . He tells the little boy Ruku stories from Indian mythology . Maganlal Meghraj, an unscrupulous art dealer, comes to Umanath Ghoshal, Ruku's father, to acquire a valuable Nepalese Ganesh statuette set with precious stones . He offers up to 30,000 rupees, which Umanath could use well, for the statuette of his father Ambika Ghosal. Umanath, however, declares them unsaleable. The following night, Ambika Ghosal was broken into; the statuette disappeared the next morning.
The detective Feluda is on vacation in Varanasi with his assistant and cousin Tapesh and his friend Lal Mohan Ganguly, the children's author Jotayu. You rent a hotel and share a room with a bodybuilder. The sadhu Machlibaba also lives in the same hotel and holds religious meetings with large crowds at the ghats on the banks of the Ganges .
Feluda and his friends take a look at the Sadhu at his “work” when Maganlal Meghraj comes up on the river in his boat and finally places a gift in front of Machlibaba. The also published Umanath Ghoshal entrusts Feluda with investigating the theft of the Ganesh statuette. During a visit to the Ghoshal house, the three of them get a report on the incident. Ruku turns out to be a connoisseur of Jotayu's adventure stories.
A phone call invites Feluda, Jotayu and Tapesh to the house of Maganlal Meghraj, who tries to prevent them from continuing their detective work. A shot at felu from an ambush and the compulsion to serve Jotayus as a target for a knife thrower should be a warning. During a search of the Machlibaba room, Felu discovers a pistol, a fake beard and wigs.
After the sculptor was murdered, Ruku confirmed on a visit to Feludas to Ghoshal that he had overheard Maganlal's visit to his father and that he and his grandfather had decided to hide the statuette in the mouth of the lion (Durga's mount) of the Durga statue, but not there is more. They confront the unemployed Bikash, who lives in the house, who confesses to having received the Ganesh from the sculptor and brought it to Maganlal.
Feluda invites his friends to the Ashram Machlibabas and they come in sadhu disguise and wait. Maganlal Meghraj comes with his boat. When he offers the sadhu a gift, the latter points a gun at him - it is Feluda in sadhu clothes. The police arrest Maganlal Meghraj. Feluda brings the Ganesh statuette back to Ghoshal.
After showing those present how easy it is to steal the statuette again, he confronts the grandfather with the claim that it is only worth 1,000 rupees and is a copy. Ambika is impressed by Feluda's ingenuity and confirms that the original figure will remain with his bank.
background
After Sonar Kella, this family film is Ray's second adaptation of one of his own stories about the detective Feluda. It is far from a masterpiece, according to the subject, but entertaining. The title of the film is difficult to translate into German: "joi" is a greeting used by Sadhus (roughly Heil! ), And Felunath is a change from the name Feluda to a typical Sadhu name. It bears a resemblance to the well-known Baba Lokenath , who is still revered today with procession and yoy calls in Kolkata .
Joi Baba Felunath was released on January 5, 1979.
Award
- National Film Award for Best Children's Film, New Delhi, 1978
- Best Feature Film, Hong Kong Film Festival , 1979
Web links
- Joi Baba Felunath in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos etc.
- Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God) ( Memento from August 8, 2012 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ His Career ( Memento of December 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )