The Elephant God

Movie
Audience Score
71
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NR 2 hrMystery, Family, Adventure, CrimeFeluda Collection PosterPart of Feluda Collection
Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to investigate.
StarringSoumitra ChatterjeeSiddhartha ChatterjeeSantosh Dutta
DirectorSatyajit Ray

Movie Details

Original Language:Bengali
Production Companies:RDB and Company
Movie Tags:
preserved film

Feluda Collection

Feluda (Bengali: ফেলুদা), or Prodosh Chandra Mitra, (Bengali: প্রদোষ চন্দ্র মিত্র) who uses the Anglicised name Pradosh C. Mitter) is a fictional private investigator starring in a series of Bengali novels and short stories written by Indian Bengali film director and writer Satyajit Ray. The detective lives at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Feluda first made his appearance in a Bengali children's magazine called Sandesh in 1965, under the editorialship of Satyajit Ray and Subhas Mukhopadhyay. His first adventure was Feludar Goendagiri.