reunites happily with his brother. For averting the war, the two kings of Shundi and Halla respectively marry their daughters to Goopy and Bagha. Cast Tapen Chatterjee - Goopy Gyne Rabi Ghosh - Bagha Byne Santosh Dutta - King of Shundi and King of Halla Harindranath Chattopadhyay - Borfi (The Magician) Ajoy Banerjee - Visitor to Halla Ratan Banerjee - Court singer at Shundi Durgadas Bannerjee - King of Amloki Binoy Bose - Village elder / visitor to Halla Govinda Chakravarti - Goopy's father Abani Chatterjee - Village elder Kartik Chatterjee - Court singer at Shundi / visitor to Halla Santi Chatterjee - Commander of Halla army Gopal Dey - Executioner Shailen Ganguli - Visitor to Halla Jahor Roy - Prime Minister of Halla Tarun Mitra - Court singer at Shundi Haridhan Mukherjee - Village elder Prasad Mukherjee - King of ghosts / village elder (bhoot er raja) Khagen Pathak - Village elder Chinmoy Roy - Spy of Halla Joykrishna Sanyal - Court singer at Shundi Mani Srimani - Visitor to Halla Production Origins Around 1967, Ray started toying with the idea of creating a film based on extra terrestrial creatures on Earth, and wrote a screenplay to that effect. Marlon Brando and Peter Sellers were supposed to star in lead roles in the film. However, things did not turn out well between him and Columbia Pictures, and the project was shelved. Unable to make a fantasy movie in Hollywood, Ray decided to make one in India instead. He intended to reach a wider audience with this film, prompted in part by the lukewarm box office performance of his previous movies Kapurush, Mahapurush and Nayak. R.D Bansal, who had produced those movies, became even less enthusiastic when he learnt of the film's estimated budget, and, as Ray told Marie Seton in December 1967, he spent the remainder of that year scouting for finance, and almost reduced to the same situation as he had been during shooting Pather Panchali. Finally, towards the end of 1967, Nepal Dutta and Asim Dutta of Purnima Pictures agreed to lend some financial help. But since it was not substantial enough to shoot the entire movie in color, Ray decided to do it in black and white and show only the final scene in color. Development and filming The film's pivotal sequence was a six and a half-minute dance, divided into four numbers, performed by the