Fantasies and detectives

The Golden Fortress

Sonar Kella

Satyajit Ray’s story in the popular Bengali tradition of travel thrillers, where detective Feluda solves a mystery in the desert lands of Rajasthan.

  • Director

    Satyajit Ray

  • With

    Soumitra Chatterjee, Santosh Dutta, Siddhartha Chatterjee

  • India 1974. 120min

  • Digital 4K

  • English subtitles

Satyajit Ray adapts his own novel about Feluda, the popular detective, and his teenage cousin Tapesh. The action is set in Rajasthan and involves kidnappers and scorpions, magicians and knife throwers, and a famous camel-ride over sand dunes to a theme tune that has thrilled generations.

New 4K restoration by NFDC – National Film Archive of India.