The Elephant God

Jan 4, 1979

2h 0m

★ 7.2

Overview

Set in the holy city of Benares, this is the second film about the detective Feluda, who goes on a holiday with his cousin, Topshe, and his friend, Lalmohan Ganguly. But the theft of a priceless deity of Lord Ganesh (the Elephant God) from a local household forces him to investigate.

Genres

Crime

Mystery

Thriller

Production Companies

RDB and Company

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Cast

Prodosh Mitra (Feluda)

Soumitra Chatterjee

Tapesh (Topshe)

Siddhartha Chatterjee

Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu)

Santosh Dutta

Maganlal Meghraj

Utpal Dutt

Parinita Banerjee

Niranjan

Satya Banerjee

Ruksmini Kumar Ghosal

Jit Bose

Bimal Chatterjee

Bikash Singha

Biplab Chatterjee

Subhadra Devi

Indubhushan Gujral

Rajkumar Lahiri

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