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Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God)
| Year | 1978 |
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| Producer | R.D. Bansal & Co. (R. D. B. Productions) |
| Distributor | R.D. Bansal & Co. |
| Screenplay | Satyajit Ray |
| Based on | The novel Joi Baba Felunath by Satyajit Ray |
| Photography | Soumendu Roy |
| Editor | Dulal Dutta |
| Art Director | Ashoke Bose |
| Music | Satyajit Ray |
| Sound | Robin Sen Gupta |
| Length | 112 min. |
| Color |
Cast:
| Pradosh Mitter (Felu) | Soumitra Chatterjee |
|---|---|
| Lalmohan Ganguli (Jatayu) | Santosh Dutta |
| Tapesh Mitter (Tapesh) | Siddharta Chatterjee |
| Maganlal Meghraj | Utpal Dutta |
| Ruku Ghosal | Jit Bose |
| Umanath Ghosal | Haradhan Banerjee |
| Ambika Ghosal | Bimal Chatterjee |
| Bisash Sinha | Biplab Chatterjee |
| Nibaran Chakravarty | Satya Banerjee |
| Gunomoy Bagchi | Moloy Roy |
| Sasi Pal | Santosh Sinha |
| Machli Baba | Manu Mukherjee |
| Inspector Tewari | Indubhusan Gujral |
| Arjun | Kamu Mukherjee |
The action is set in Benares. The owner of a statuette of Ganesh (the elephant god) is mystified when he receives an offer to purchase the figurine for a price exceeding what would seem to be its reasonable value on the art market. Why should the object be so desirable? Soon afterwards the statuette is stolen, but the detective Feluda — with his indispensible companion Tapesh at his side, and with the help of a writer, an author of novels for children — attempts to unravel the mystery. A reading of Tintin in the Congo, among other things, turns out to be a great help to them.
