Clip with a Hindu supernatural being.

Many years ago, some major movie awards ceremony (probably the Oscars, but I am not sure) honored some Indian (or other South Asian) director.
They showed a lot of clips of his movies.
One I remember showed a Hindu supernatural being. The clip was in black and white. The actor playing the being may have been a dwarf (or a child?), or may have like been sticking their head through a costume that made them look like a dwarf. In my memory there was a lot of makeup and costume to make the being look rather inhuman (at least to me). The character was chanting the Hare Krishna chant (or a very similar chant), but it sort of sounded like the sound had been sped up (or else the actor naturally had a sort of "chipmunk" voice).
I got the impression that the human characters had sort of discovered this being, and were surprised. I vaguely remember there was some sort of star shape behind the being.

Satyajit Ray was honored by the Academy in 1992 for his lifetime of work with an honorary award, and his first film was in the 50s, so lots of black and white there.
His films I've seen mostly dealt in reality though and that scene isn't ringing any bells off the top of my head (conceivably Deva, since there was a descent into madness aspect of the movie, or Hero, where you do get dream sequences).

But I guess if you can look up his Oscars awards ceremony (assuming they have the clips there), you can see if that's at least the correct clip job.

Check at about the 3:30 mark, does that look familair?



That might be The Adventures of Goopy and Bagha (1969), he later returned to those characters with The Kingdom of Diamonds (1980)

Edit, a clip from the first Goopy and Bagha

That is definitely it. This character seems to be called the "King of the Ghosts". My memory had greatly distorted the character's appearance. This doesn't seem to be a dwarf or child.

Well, cool, another one solved.

That was an important Oscar moment, not only for honoring a great filmmaker, but also because the Academy had a difficult time finding decent clips, his movies were in bad shape, some of the master prints were lost - so they put into motion the restoration of his films. This was one of them, though I don't believe there's been an official release.

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