Satyajit Ray adapted his grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury’s short story ‘Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne’ (1915) as a film, bearing the same name that released in the year 1969, at the request of his son to make a film for children. Twenty years later, a similar request was made to an author by his son that had put the author in a dilemma, “You should never break a promise made to a child, but is the death of the author a reasonable excuse?” Salman Rushdie, the author in question, produced Haroun and the Sea of Stories in 1990, dedicating the book to his son. Ranade's Goopi and Bagha (Image source: The Hindu) Fifty years after Ray’s Goopy Gyne Bagha Byne , Shilpa Ranade’s directorial debut Goopi Gawaiya Bagha Bajaiya (2019) has recreated the magical world of storytelling. After a few minutes into the movie, I couldn’t help but wonder about its uncanny resemblance of wordplay with Rushdie’s Haroun and the Sea of Stories . Like Rushdie’s story, the film not only reminds ...