![]() ![]() It started with director Anjan Dutt casting actor Abir Chatterjee as Byomkesh and S aswata Chatterjee as Ajit. In the last few years, Byomkesh has been the most alluring and sought-after franchise in Bengali cinema. The first and the most successful adaptation of the book was in the form of a TV series starring Rajit Kapoor as Byomkesh Bakshi, KK Raina as Ajit and Sukanya Kulkarni as Satyaboti. ![]() ![]() It is the variety of the premises based on a strong sense of justice of an upright family man that makes the stories of Byomkesh Bakshi relevant and appealing to all generations alike. There’s betrayal in friendship, a story of an unwed mother and instances of unapologetic extra-marital affairs leading to devastating climaxes but all of these are narrated in a non-judgmental tone. There’s a fine thread of human relationships that keep the stories relatable even today. We see revolutionists as characters in a few novels and we also read about brilliant scientists figuring out innovative techniques to commit a crime. As readers, we are exposed to the political, social and economic turbulence that hit Bengal during that phase. There’s an under-current tension typical to the pre-independence era. The stories featuring Byomkesh Bakshi are not just another type of whodunit detective thrillers. Saradindu Bandopadhyay and his Byomkesh Bakshi Eventually, they get married and have a kid who’s known to the world as Khokha. He meets his future wife Satyaboti during one of the investigations where her brother is considered a suspect. Byomkesh belongs to that rare breed of detectives in literature who gets married and starts a family. Instead, he prefers to call himself as Satyanweshi (the one in search of the truth). This dhoti-kurta clad resident of Harrison road in Kolkata has his man Friday named Putiram and abhors the term private investigator or detective. This is where he is shown to meet his future housemate, friend, and novelist, Ajit who eventually decides to pen down Byomkesh’s cases in the form of stories. ![]() He appeared in disguise under the pseudo-name of Atul Chandra Sen in the novel ‘Satyaneshwi’. The author’s sudden demise left the last story ‘Bishupal Badh’ in the Byomkesh series incomplete.īyomkesh was introduced to the literary world as a private investigator on a mission to bust a drug racquet in colonial India. Most of these stories have been translated into English recently. Originally written in Bengali, the stories/novels of Byomkesh were published in the form of a collection titled ‘Byomkesh Samagra’ in 1995. ![]()
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