<P> Haroun encounters a warrior who is fighting his own shadow . This is possibly a reference to J.M Barrie's Peter Pan . </P> <P> "Goopy" and "Bagha," the names of the Plentimaws, allude to the characters Goopy and Bagha created by Bengali author Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury . His grandson, the Academy Award - winning director Satyajit Ray, directed two films with Goopy and Bagha as protagonists . </P> <Ul> <Li> A play based on the book was adapted for the stage by Tim Supple and David Tushingham . It had its stage premiere in 1998 at the Royal National Theatre in London . </Li> <Li> An opera, Haroun and the Sea of Stories, by Charles Wuorinen with libretto by James Fenton, written in 2001, was premiered at the New York City Opera in Fall 2004 . </Li> </Ul> <Li> A play based on the book was adapted for the stage by Tim Supple and David Tushingham . It had its stage premiere in 1998 at the Royal National Theatre in London . </Li>

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