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Sonar Kella (1974)

Sonar Kella poster
Original title
সোনার কেল্লা
Directed by
Satyajit Ray
Genre
detective film
Country
India
Runtime
2h 16m
Rating
7.9 of 10 from 32 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A young boy claims to remember a past life in a golden fortress. A detective and his assistant travel across India to protect the boy from kidnappers while searching for the real fortress.

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What happens

Sonar Kella, also Shonar Kella, is a 1971 mystery novel written by Bengali writer and filmmaker Satyajit Ray. In 1974, Ray directed a film adaption of the book, also named Sonar Kella, starring Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta, Siddartha Chatterjee and Kushal Chakraborty. The movie was released in the United States as The Golden Fortress. It is the first film adaptation of Ray's famous sleuth Feluda and was followed by Joi Baba Felunath, in English The Elephant God. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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