28-596: (Redirected from Shun Di ) Shundi or Shun Di may refer to: Shundi (fictional kingdom) , a fictional kingdom in Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne Shundi (surname) , an Albanian surname Shun Di, a character from Virtua Fighter Emperor Shun (disambiguation) or Shundi in Chinese Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
56-491: A Malayalam film , Thulabharam and a Tamil film , Thillaanaa Mohanambal . Following were the awards given in each category: Following were the awards given: The awards were given to the best films made in the regional languages of India . For feature films in Assamese , English , Gujarati , Kashmiri and Punjabi language , President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film was not given. The producer and director of
84-454: A donkey. Exiled to a forest, he meets Bagha Byne, another exile from nearby village called Hortuki. Like Goopy, Bagha had been exiled from his village for playing the drum badly. They encounter a tiger in the forest, from which they narrowly escape by staying perfectly still. After the tiger is gone, they start to celebrate by singing and drumming. This attracts a group of ghosts , who are fascinated by their music. Happy with their performance,
112-420: A senile sorcerer, who has created the evil potion. Goopy and Bagha travel to Halla in an attempt to prevent the attack, but are captured instead. They also lose the power of their slippers when captured and hence cannot escape the jail by magic, but manage to do so by luring the famished gatekeeper with delicious foods. They arrive singing and drumming when the soldiers are about to launch their attack, rendering
140-401: A singer, but he sings terribly without melody, rhythm or tune. In an attempt to mock him, the village elders persuade Goopy to sing for the king in the early morning hours right under His Majesty's bedroom window. Goopy does so, but his terrible singing only disturbs the king's sleep, who then summons him to his court. There, the king humiliates him and orders for him to be driven out of Amloki on
168-586: A single child who doesn't know and sing the songs". At the 16th National Film Awards , the movie won two major awards: It won 4 international awards: It was also nominated for the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival . The Academy Film Archive preserved Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne in 2003. Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne was remade into a Hindi language animated film named Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya , directed by Shilpa Ranade . It
196-461: A wider audience with this film, prompted in part by the lukewarm box office performance of his previous movies Kapurush , Mahapurush and Nayak . R.D Bansal, who had produced those movies, became even less enthusiastic when he learnt of the film's estimated budget, and, as Ray told Marie Seton in December 1967, he spent the remainder of that year scouting for finance, and almost reduced to
224-535: Is a 1969 Indian fantasy adventure comedy film written and directed by Satyajit Ray and based on a story by his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury . It is a fantasy musical , with music and lyrics composed and written by Ray himself. This is the first film of the Goopy–Bagha series, and there are two sequels – Hirak Rajar Deshe , which was released in 1980, and Goopy Bagha Phire Elo , written by Satyajit Ray but directed by his son Sandip Ray , which
252-636: Is now given as National Film Award for Best Feature Film in a particular language. Certificate of Merit in all the categories is discontinued over the years. Feature films were awarded at All India as well as regional level. For 16th National Film Awards, a Bengali film Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne won the President's Gold Medal for the All India Best Feature Film , with also winning the maximum number of awards (two); along with two Hindi films , Aashirwad and Saraswatichandra with
280-440: The sahibs , was played by actors appropriately dressed and made-up, the sahibs were shadow-puppets expertly under-cranked to create the illusion. The dance culminates with the four classes positioned vertically, with the priests at the bottom and the common people at the top, in contrast with the traditional class hierarchy. Ray imagined the caste system upside down in reaction to the evolving nature of power. Critical response
308-490: The All India Best Feature Film is now better known as National Film Award for Best Feature Film , whereas President's Gold Medal for the Best Documentary Film is analogous to today's National Film Award for Best Non-Feature Film . For children's films, Prime Minister's Gold Medal is now given as National Film Award for Best Children's Film . At the regional level, President's Silver Medal for Best Feature Film
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#1732771931912336-554: The army motionless. Next, they wish for unlimited food and sweets, which rain from the sky on the starving soldiers who forget the battle and settle for filling their bellies. Not only this, their singing takes off the evil effects of the potion given to the King of Halla, who drops the idea of capturing Shundi, and reunites happily with his brother. For averting the war, the two kings of Shundi and Halla respectively marry their daughters to Goopy and Bagha. Around 1967, Ray started toying with
364-475: The best of Indian Cinema released in 1968. Ceremony took place at Vigyan Bhavan , New Delhi on 13 February 1970. With 16th National Film Awards, three new awards were introduced, mainly for Best Film on Family Welfare , Best Child Artist and Best Film Lyric Writer . Moreover, for male and female singers, awards were differentiated with Best Male Playback Singer and Best Female Playback Singer respectively. Six different committees were formed based on
392-484: The common people. Ray decided that the music ought to have "some order, form and precision", instead of being just being "a wooly, formless kind of thing". He remembered a South Indian classical form he had once heard in the Delhi Film Festival, which used 12 musical instruments, of which he selected four. He deliberately avoided melody, because "melody suggests a kind of sophistication". Each class, except
420-508: The film making sectors in India, mainly based in Bombay, Calcutta and Madras along with the award categories. Another committee for all India level was also formed which included some of the members from regional committee. For 16th National Film Awards, central committee was headed by Justice G. D. Khosla. Awards were divided into feature films and non-feature films. President's Gold Medal for
448-520: The film would cost a lot of money. The movie released to great critical and commercial reception, which held the record for longest continuous run of a Bengali-language movie in Bengal, as it ran for 51 straight weeks. It won the Best Feature Film and Best Direction awards at the 16th National Film Awards , and went on to win many other international awards as well. Critical reception
476-635: The fourth Goopy - Bagha movie. Ray said to The Times of India about the plot of the fourth film: "Making a Goopy Bagha movie without Tapen and Rabi is unthinkable. The only way I can do a fourth is by taking the story forward and introducing Goopy and Bagha's sons". The idea to weave a story around the next generation came from a line from the introductory song 'Mora Dujonai Rajar Jamai' in 'Hirak Rajar Deshe'—"aar ache polapan, ek khan ek khan... (we have one child each)". 16th National Film Awards The 16th National Film Awards , presented by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, India to felicitate
504-463: The ghosts of the forest in front of Goopy and Bagha. The numbers were intertwined into a phantasmagoria of contrasting styles and moods. Ray settled on four classes of ghosts keeping in line with the four common classes in the social hierarchy in Hinduism , "since we have so many class divisions, the ghosts should have the same". Thus came to be included the king and warriors, sahibs , fat people and
532-471: The idea of creating a film based on extra terrestrial creatures on Earth, and wrote a screenplay to that effect. Marlon Brando and Peter Sellers were supposed to star in lead roles in the film. However, things did not turn out well between him and Columbia Pictures , and the project was shelved. Unable to make a fantasy movie in Hollywood , Ray decided to make one in India instead. He intended to reach
560-410: The king of the ghosts (Bhooter Raja) grants them three boons. These boons will only work if they are together. The pair travel to Shundi, where a benevolent king appoints them court musicians. However, the king of Halla (the long lost twin brother of Shundi's king), is planning to attack Shundi, after being poisoned by his chief minister with the help of a magic potion that makes him evil. He is aided by
588-450: The same situation as he had been during shooting Pather Panchali . Finally, towards the end of 1967, Nepal Dutta and Asim Dutta of Purnima Pictures agreed to lend some financial help. But since it was not substantial enough to shoot the entire movie in color, Ray decided to do it in black and white and show only the final scene in color. The film's pivotal sequence was a six and a half-minute dance, divided into four numbers, performed by
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644-446: Was "Satyajit Ray at his least convincing". The Observer wrote that "perhaps it would appeal to singularly unfidgety children". The Times observed, "Ray is a true poet of the cinema, but he finds his poetry in everyday reality; in all-out fantasy, he seems somewhat prosaic". It was, however, a smash hit at home. Ray later wrote to Marie Seton that "it is extraordinary how quickly it has become part of popular culture. Really there isn't
672-461: Was generally positive, with the length and special effects being the main points of criticism. Dennis Schwartz wrote that "its only fault is that I thought it was too lengthy to hold the attention of children. But the appealing film dazzles with Ray's lively score that's carried out very well by the film's stars". Lindsay Anderson said that it had got lovely things in it, but it went on for too long. A critic, writing for The Guardian , said that this
700-402: Was highly positive. Raja Sen called it to be the most innovative film to have ever come out of India. Phil Hall said that the film "comes as a delightful surprise – Ray, it appears, not only possessed a great sense of humor but also enjoyed a stunning talent for musical cinema". Gopinath Gyne alias Goopy is the son of a poor grocer Kanu Kyne from a village called Amloki. Goopy wants to become
728-407: Was less 'grim and adult'. This was matched by Ray's own desire to make a movie that, unlike his previous films, would cater to children. Plus, this would also give him an opportunity to lace the story with music and dancing, a point his movies' producers and distributors were always insisting upon. Ray managed to convince producers to finance the film, even though it was clear from the beginning that
756-472: Was nominated for and won for several international awards. Satyajit Ray made a sequel named Hirak Rajar Deshe , which released eleven years after the release of Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne . Sandip Ray , son of director Satyajit Ray directed another sequel named Goopy Bagha Phire Elo . The film released twelve years after the release of Hirak Rajar Deshe . Sandip Ray wants to make another sequel to this series. He had received many requests to make
784-459: Was released in 1992. The film was based on the characters Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne, who made their first appearance in the Sandesh magazine in 1915, with illustrations by Ray's grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury. In 1961, after the revival of Sandesh , Ray began contemplating the idea of making a film based on that story, and he was partly compelled by his son Sandip to make a film which
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