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5 unusual facts about Sonar Kella


Jaisalmer Fort

The famous Indian film director Satyajit Ray wrote the Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress), a detective novel, based on the fort and he later filmed it here.

Joi Baba Felunath

It is the second film of Feluda as well as the sequel of Sonar Kella directed by Satyajit Ray.

Literary creations of Satyajit Ray

Satyajit Ray wrote thirty-five Feluda stories, most of which were extremely popular, and made into films two of the Feluda stories – Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) (1974) and Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God) (1978).

Sonar Kella

His interpretation of the character in this and the other Feluda film Joi Baba Felunath were so powerful that Ray modeled the character of Jatayu in later books on him.

Mandar Bose tells him that Mukul remembered the name of the place to be Barmer.



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