Joi Baba Felunath (The Elephant God)
Dir: Satyajit Ray
1979
****
An thoroughly enjoyable crime caper with likable good-guys and dastardly bad-guys. The story is very Agatha Christie, Ray is obviously a big Christie fan, he even mentions her in the film but the back-drop and humour is very much Satyajit Ray and it certainly stands as one of his most enjoyable films. Soumitra Chatterjee is very suave as his role as Detective Feluda but it's Santosh Dutta as Lalmohan Ganguly who really steals the show (although Utpal Dutt as Maganlal Meghraj comes a very close second). Overall, a very enjoyable film with universal appeal. Highly recommended.