The film was based on the characters Goopy Gyne and Bagha Byne , who made their first appearance in the '' Sandesh '' magazine in 1915 , with illustrations by Ray 's grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury . In 1961 , after the revival of '' Sandesh '' , Ray began contemplating the idea of making a film based on that story , and he was partly compelled by his son Sandip to make a film which was less ' grim and adult ' . This was matched by Ray 's own desire to make a movie that , unlike his previous movies , would cater to children . Plus this would also give him an opportunity to lace the story with music and dancing , a point his movies ' producers and distributors were always insisting upon . Ray managed to convince producers to finance the movie , even though it was clear from the beginning that the film would cost a lot of money . The movie released to great critical and commercial reception , which held the record for longest continuous run of a Bengali-language movie in Bengal , as it ran for 51 straight weeks . It won the Best Feature Film and Best Direction awards at the 16th National Film Awards , and went on to win many other international awards as well . Critical reception was highly positive . Raja Sen called it to be the most innovative movie to have ever come out of India . Phil Hall said that the movie " comes as a delightful surprise – Ray , it appears , not only possessed a great sense of humor but also enjoyed a stunning talent for musical cinema . " The story revolves around Gopinath Gyne ( alias Goopy , Tapen Chatterjee ) , the son of a poor Kayastha grocer Kanu Kyne from a village called Amloki . Goopy wants to become a singer but has a hoarse voice . Persuaded by village elders to sing for the king , he does so and is driven out of Amloki on a donkey for waking the king with his terrible singing . Exiled into a forest , he meets Bagha ( Rabi Ghosh ) , another exile from nearby Hortuki sent to the forest - in Bagha 's case , due to playing a drum badly . They start singing and drumming , initially to scare off a roaming tiger , and in the process they attract a group of ghosts who are fascinated by their music . The king of ghosts grants them three boons : They travel to Shundi , where a benevolent king appoints them court musicians . However , the king of Halla ( the long lost brother of the king of Shundi ) is planning to attack Shundi , after being poisoned with magic potion that makes him evil , given to the king of Halla by his self-centered prime minister . Goopy and Bagha travel to Halla in an attempt at preventing the attack , but are captured instead . Since they have now lost their slippers , they can not escape by magic , but manage to do so instead by strategy . They arrive singing and drumming when the soldiers are about to launch their attack , capturing the king of Halla , who is returned to Shundi . The two brothers are reunited and Goopy and Bagha marry the daughters of the two kings
16th National Film Awards
16th National Film Awards
Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne