Sonar Kella
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Original title |
সোনার কেল্লা (Sonar Kella) |
Country of production | India |
original language | Bengali |
Publishing year | 1974 |
length | 136 minutes |
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Director | Satyajit Ray |
script | Satyajit Ray |
production | West Bengal Government |
music | Satyajit Ray |
camera | Soumendu Roy |
cut | Dulal Dutta |
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Sonar Kella ( Bengali : সোনার কেল্লা , Sonār Kellā ; translated: The Golden Fortress ) is an Indian family film by Satyajit Ray from 1974. The film was based on the detective story of the same name Ray.
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The boy Mukul is haunted by memories of his past life . At night he makes drawings of what he wants to see. He is permanently in a trance-like state. His father therefore takes him to the parapsychologist Dr. Hajra. From the drawings, Hajra concludes that the boy's memories refer to a fortress in Rajasthan , where the boy's father worked as a diamond cutter. Dr. Hajra hopes to cure the boy through confrontation on a trip to Rajasthan.
A newspaper report on Mukul calls on two criminals, Burman and Bose, who want to kidnap the boy in order to get hold of the treasure mentioned in the article. The first time they try to kidnap, they seize a boy from the neighborhood, also named Mukul. To protect his son, Mukul's father then hires the detective Feluda, who drives to Rajasthan with his assistant and cousin Tapesh. In the meantime, Dr. Hajra with Mukul the Red Fort in Delhi , which is not the “Golden Fortress” we are looking for . Burman and Bose have followed them, together they board the train towards Jaipur and become acquainted with each other. They find out that they know Hajra, years ago he had discovered a fraud between the two of them in Allahabad . While touring the fortress in Jaipur, Bose comes across Dr. Hajra down a slope; Mukul believes Hajra has only been removed by magic and goes to a hotel in Jodhpur with the two criminals . From now on Burman presents himself as Dr. Hajra off. The real Dr. Hajra is only injured and follows them after receiving makeshift medical attention.
Meanwhile, Feluda meets the children's book author Jotayu on the train, who wants to write a book in Rajasthan and joins him. On the first evening when Feluda had settled in the same hotel as the criminals with Mukul, Bose carried out an attack on him using a poisonous scorpion, but it failed. The next morning Jotayu also moves into the hotel. A trip to Bikaner does not yield the "Golden Fortress" you are looking for .
Using hypnosis, Burman and Bose get the name of the place they are looking for from Mukul: Jaisalmer . The next day they set out and draw Feluda's attention to another city. However, this comes behind the riddle of the "Golden Fortress" - the fortress and the houses of the city in it are built of yellow limestone, which make them appear golden in the children's imagination. They travel to Jaisalmer, but their car is twice stuck in broken glass on the road and Feluda, Tapesh and Jotayu depend on camels to continue riding through the Thar desert . During a night camp, Feluda recognizes Bose among the Rajasthans. You take a night train to Jaisalmer, in which there is a confrontation with Feluda and Bose as well as with Dr. Hajra and Bose come and he falls from the train in fear. When the train arrives, Feluda and Dr. Hajra known.
Mukul and Burman have meanwhile arrived at the fortress in Jaisalmer and Mukul recognizes it as his “Golden Fortress”. While walking through the city inside the fortress, he remembers the inhabitants of certain houses. In an argument he runs into the wrong Dr. Hajra from it, this one is provided by Feluda. Mukul finds his family home and is released from his hypnotic state.
background
Sonar Kella is a detective comedy and Ray's first film adaptation of one of his children's books about the detective Feluda; he shot a second Feluda story with Joi Baba Felunath (1979). The award-winning color photographs were also used to create dramatic effects. It was shot on original locations in the Rajasthani cities.
The film was released on December 27, 1974.
Award
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National Film Awards 1974
- Best director
- Best script
- Best camera (color)
- Best film in Bengali
- Best Film and Best Director, Government of West Bengal, 1974
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Tehran International Festival of Films for Children and Young Adults 1975
- Golden Statue for Best Live Feature Film
Web links
- Sonar Kella in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Photos etc.
- Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) ( Memento from February 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ^ His Career ( Memento of December 10, 2007 in the Internet Archive )