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Hirak Rajar Deshe (The Kingdom of Diamonds)
| Year | 1980 |
|---|---|
| Producer | Govt. of West Bengal |
| Distributor | Govt. of West Bengal |
| Screenplay | Satyajit Ray |
| Based on | The story Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne by Upendrakisore Ray Chaudhury |
| Photography | Soumendu Roy |
| Editor | Dulal Dutta |
| Art Director | Ashoke Bose |
| Music | Satyajit Ray |
| Sound | Robin Sen Gupta, Durgadas Mitra |
| Length | 118 min. |
| Color |
Cast:
| Professor Udayan | Soumitra Chatterjee |
|---|---|
| King Hirak | Utpal Dutta |
| Goopy | Tapen Chatterjee |
| Bagha | Rabi Ghosh |
| King of Shundi | Santosh Dutta |
| Udayan's father | Promod Ganguli |
| Udayan's mother | Alpana Gupta |
| Charandas | Rabin Majumdar |
| Fazl Mia | Sunil Sarkar |
| Balaram | Nani Ganguli |
| Bidusak | Ajoy Banerjee |
| Court poet | Kartik Chatterjee |
| Court astrologer | Harindhan Mukherjee |
| Ministers | Bimal Deb, Tarun Mitra, Gopal Dey, Sailen Ganguli, Samir Mukherjee |
This film is the sequel to The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha. Ten years have passed in the kingdom of Shundi. Our two heroes have married the princesses and each has a child, but they have become bored with their lives. An invitation arrives from the Kingdom of Diamonds, inspiring them to pay a visit to that land. The ruler there behaves despotically, bleeding his people with taxes and exploiting them in his diamond mine; he wants a scientist to build him a brainwashing machine. A professor, Udayan, tries to incite the people to rise up against this tyrant, but the king closes the schools as the machine invented by the scientist begins to work. In the midst of all this, Goopy and Bagha meet the professor and join forces with him in order to liberate the populace from their oppressor.
