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The relatively lukewarm box-office response to his previous outings Kapurush-o-MahapurushNayak and Chiriyakhanaand a general downturn in the Bengali film industry at the time, led Ray's regular producer since MahanagarR. Bansal, to back out, leaving Ray without funds for his project.

One of the changes he wrought in the screenplay was that while in the original story, Bagha is the simpleton and Goopy the clever one, the roles are reversed in the film. Needless to say, it was an offer Ray could not but refuse.

Ray's interest in the genre was reactivated in with the approach of his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury's centenary in It was in that he also revived the Ray family's children's magazine Sandeshfounded by Upendrakishore who had written and illustrated the original story in Driving the thought of bringing Goopy Bagha to screen was young Sandip Ray, his son, who was of the opinion that his father made films only for adults and that the films were too sad.

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But 'date' hassles came in the way of the singer taking on the project. However, the budget didn't allow for colour. They meet accidentally and are helped by King of Ghosts. By the time he had finished revising the original four-page story into a minute screenplay, it had gone through quite a metamorphosis.

Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne is a Indian fantasy musical film by Satyajit Ray, based on a story by his grandfather. My rationale was, the princesses, who refused to look at the two friends, would definitely do so if they were in colour! Interestingly, the film's last sequence was shot in colour and it's thanks to Sandip Ray.

I kept thinking how wonderful it would be in colour. One Jibanlal Bandyopadhyay was next roped in for the role. Bagha has been exiled for playing the drum badly. Ray also approached producers in Bombay to make the film in Hindi but that too fell through.

A close friend of Satyajit Ray, filmmaker, critic bayen historian, and co-founder of the Calcutta Film Society with Ray, Chidananda Dasgupta commented in 'I consider Satyajit Ray perfectly capable of producing a better fantasy than all other Indian directors put together.

That it took Ray almost ten years to actively start work on Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne, his most enduring work of fantasy, owes itself as much to Ray's bagha with other ideas as he scaled creative highs from the Apu Trilogy to Charulata as it does to the logistical and financial difficulties he encountered in putting the project together.

Arun Mukherjee, who acted in Ray's Kanchenjungawas initially selected to play Goopy. Goopy wants to sing, and Bagha wants to play the dhol. The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha: Directed by Satyajit Ray. With Tapan Chatterjee, Rabi Ghosh, Ajoy Banerjee, Iva Banerjee.

Exiled to a forest, he meets Bagha Bayen (Rabi Ghosh), another exile from nearby village Hortuki. It was only around Christmas that Nepal and Asim Dutta came up with the funds for the film. The film's casting too went through a number of changes over the years.

One of the big names who came forward to produce the film was Raj Kapoor. Goopy's songs were eventually rendered by Anup Ghoshal — heralding a new singing sensation in Bengal. The same goes for the kings of Halla and Shundi — in the gayen the former is the good king, the latter the one led astray by his evil minister.

As the film got delayed, Ray approached Kishore Kumar to play Goopy — he was also to sing Goopy's songs. This was compounded by Ray's unwillingness to compromise with his vision — there were demands from producers to foreground Goopy and Bagha's marriage to the daughters of the two kings, thus providing a romantic element which would facilitate obtaining money.

With newly endowed abilities, they land in kingdom of Shundi, where their adventure begins. Rabi Ghosh, who had made a huge impact with Abhijanwas Ray's automatic choice for Bagha. It tells the adventures of two exiled musicians who get magic powers from the king of ghosts and save a gupi from a war.