The Elephant God (Jai Baba Felunath)
TITLE
The Elephant God (Jai Baba Felunath)
DIRECTOR
Satyajit Ray
COUNTRY
India
YEAR
1979
DURATION
116′
GENRE
Adventure, Family
The Elephant God (Jai Baba Felunath)
The second film based on Ray’s Feluda detective stories, The Elephant God is an entertaining and fast paced adventure comedy featuring Soumitra Chatterjee as the witty and resourceful detective who solves crimes with his superb analytical ability and observation skills. When Feluda and his cousin arrives in the city of Benares for a vacation, they are roped in to solve the theft of a precious gold statue of Ganesha, a family heirloom handed down from a former king of Nepal. Feluda befriends Riku, a young boy who helps him uncover vital clues to solve the mystery of the missing statue. Featuring a cast of colourful characters with a climax set on the Ganges, The Elephant God is a rousing and terrific companion piece to Ray’s earlier Feluda adventure, The Golden Fortress
DIRECTOR BIOGRAPHY - Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Born in Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature, Ray started his career as a commercial artist. He was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959) form The Apu Trilogy. Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
- DirectorSatyajit Ray
- ScreenplaySatyajit Ray
- Cinematography Soumendu Roy
- Cast
- Editing Dulal Dutta
- Producer/s R.D. Bansal, Kamal Bansal, Lalji Mehrotra
- Production Company
- Distributor/s
- Project TitleThe Elephant God (Jai Baba Felunath)
- Project TypeAdventure, Family
- Completion Date January 1, 1979
- Country of originIndia
- Country of filmingIndia
- Language
- First-time Filmmaker No
- Student ProjectNo
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Born in Calcutta into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature, Ray started his career as a commercial artist. He was drawn into independent filmmaking after meeting French filmmaker Jean Renoir and viewing Vittorio De Sica's Italian neorealist film Bicycle Thieves (1948) during a visit to London. Ray directed 36 films, including feature films, documentaries and shorts. He was also a fiction writer, publisher, illustrator, calligrapher, music composer, graphic designer and film critic. He authored several short stories and novels, primarily aimed at children and adolescents. Feluda, the sleuth, and Professor Shonku, the scientist in his science fiction stories, are popular fictional characters created by him. He was awarded an honorary degree by Oxford University. Ray's first film, Pather Panchali (1955), won eleven international prizes, including the inaugural Best Human Document award at the 1956 Cannes Film Festival. This film, along with Aparajito (1956), and Apur Sansar (1959) form The Apu Trilogy. Ray did the scripting, casting, scoring, and editing, and designed his own credit titles and publicity material. Ray received many major awards in his career, including 32 Indian National Film Awards, a Golden Lion, a Golden Bear, 2 Silver Bears, a number of additional awards at international film festivals and award ceremonies, and an Academy Honorary Award in 1992. The Government of India honored him with the Bharat Ratna, its highest civilian award, in 1992.
