The Elephant God

Name: The Elephant God
Genre: Drama, Crime
Released: 1979
Duration: 112 min
Rating: 3.0
Cast: Soumitra Chatterjee, Utpal Dutt, Santosh Dutta, Siddhartha Chatterjee, Haradhan Bannerjee

Satyajit Ray19791h 52mDrama, Crime

Why we chose it

Ray's love of detective fiction led him to invent Detective Feluda, the Indian Sherlock Holmes, the protagonist of a series of short stories by the director. This is his second appearance in his filmography, a clever and highly entertaining whodunnit.

Synopsis

Detective Feluda is on holiday in the holy city of Varanasi with his assistant, Tapesh, and a mystery writer. There, he meets the Goshal family, who immediately hire him to solve the mystery of the disappearance of the golden statuette of the God Ganesha, a family heirloom given to their ancestor by the King of Nepal.