Synopsis

Hirak Rajar Deshe is the second movie of the Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne series directed by Satyajit Ray. An unique aspect of the film is that most of the dialogues exchanged by the protagonists of the film are rhyming. Satyajit Ray was initially apprehensive whether this approach would be liked by people as it was a novel one but it was a great success.

The musician duo of Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne make a comeback in this sequel, where they are invited to the court of the Hirak Raja (Diamond King), for their musical skills. They have to perform at the kingdom’s Jubilee Celebrations.

However, coming to the kingdom, they use their natural goodness and curiosity to find out that all is not well in the kingdom. There is exploitation of poor farmers and diamond-miners. There are sycophant courtiers and ruthless armies. And there is a mad scientist with this Brain-washing machine. With the help of an upright school-master, Goopi and Bagha set out to correct the evils… with the help of their ghost-given skills, fast thinking and an impish sense of humour. ~ www.satyajitray.org

Heerak.Rajar.Deshe.AKA.The.Kingdom.of.Diamonds.1980.1080p.Restored.WEB-DL.AAC.2.0.x264-traVis.mkv

General
Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 59 min
Size: 	3.05 GiB
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Aspect ratio:  	16:9
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Language(s):Bengali
Subtitles:English (Hardcoded)

The post Satyajit Ray – Heerak Rajar Deshe aka Kingdom of Diamonds (1980) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

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Satyajit Ray’s valedictory film is a multifaceted character study that contains both humor and melancholy rumination. Based on the filmmaker’s own story, The Stranger involves a bourgeois couple who are taken off guard when a man claiming to be the wife’s long-lost uncle sends word that he will be coming to stay with them after years of travel. Though they fear he’s an impostor, they tentatively let the man into their home, commencing an eye-opening emotional journey for the family. A humanist exploration of class, faith, and tradition versus progress, The Stranger is a bittersweet good-bye from one of the world’s most important filmmakers.

1.85GB | 2h 00m | 712×472 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/1F81A6BC9B3E115/Satyajit_Ray_-_(1991)_The_Stranger.mkv

Language:Bengali,English
Subtitles:English

The post Satyajit Ray – Agantuk AKA The Stranger (1991) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis
In 1987, Satyajit Ray made a documentary on a legend of Bengali Literature – Sukumar Ray – incidentally also the father of the filmmaker. Sukumar ray was an extraordinary individual. He was a gifted artist, photographer, activist and a person who gathered the cream of intellectuals in renaissance bengal around him. Yet he is remembered as the greatest humourist Bengal has ever produced, equalling great literateurs like Lewis Carrol and Edward Lear. The documentary tries to give us a glimpse into the mind of this genius and capture for its audience the wonderful poetry and compositions of Sukumar Ray.

699MB | 28m 50s | 576×432 | avi

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Language:Bengali
Subtitles:English (SubRip – SRT)

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This is the second film about the detective Feluda (Soumitra Chatterjee) set in the holy city of Benares, where he (along with his cousin, Topshe and friend, Lalmohan Ganguly) goes for a holiday. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to start investigation. Feluda comes in direct confrontation with Maganlal Meghraj (Utpal Dutt), a ruthless trader. Maganlal makes the mild-mannered Lalmohan a knife-thrower’s target and threatens Felu to stop investigation. But there are several other suspects as an innocent artisan is brutally murdered, a shady ‘holy man’ holds court on the banks of the Ganges and an adventure-loving little boy (and his grand-father), brought up on crime thrillers. The climax is a shoot-out on the Ganges, followed by the unraveling of the mystery.

2.15GB | 1h 56m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/E967017489B4788/Joi.Baba.Felunath.The.Elephant.God.1979.DVDRip.x264-pirata00.mkv

Language:Bengali
Subtitles:English

The post Satyajit Ray – Joi Baba Felunath AKA The Elephant God (1979) first appeared on Cinema of the World.

Synopsis:

Starting out as a fantasy mythological with the gods, entrenched in their fortress, deciding to create 100 jobs, the film becomes an exemplary fairy tale when 30,000 applicants start queuing up for work. The fairy tale then becomes a didactic tragedy with realist sequences (media men interviewing individuals in the crowd of applicants) when the people realise the job scheme is grossly inadequate and popular discontent grows into a desire to storm the citadel. Freely mixing different styles and modes of storytelling including direct address to the camera, with the chorus both as narrator and as political agitator (R. Ghosh, who also plays god and the sutradhara), Sen continues exploring the possibilities of a cinematic narrative that would be both enlightening and emotionally involving without descending into authoritarian sloganising. Having gone as far in this direction as he could, Sen deploys the lessons of his experiments with complex and stylistically diverse cinematic idioms in his next feature, Mrigaya (1976).

2.75GB | 1h 51m | 768×576 | mkv

https://nitro.download/view/58D3F04A3FDF516/Chorus.1974.576p.WEB-DL.x264.mkv

Language:Bengali
Subtitles:English

The post Mrinal Sen – Chorus (1975) first appeared on Cinema of the World.