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Anjan Dutt was supposed to play an ageing Byomkesh, but eventually Aporup Acharya did.Īpart from pioneering the franchise, Dutt also introduced Abir Chatterjee as Byomkesh, at a time when the actor was not even one film old.
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Mukherji says that the play, which ran to packed houses, was staged just before the first Byomkesh film starring Abir released.
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It was to be Byomkesh’s last case and had Ajit as the murderer. Uttam Kumar as Byomkesh Bakshi in Satyajit Ray’s Chiriyakhana (1967)Īs an interesting aside, the Byomkesh boom in Bengali cinema was probably kicked off by a non-canonical play in English called Checkmate, written and directed by Mukherji. “Success begets success … Bengali obsession for literature meets Bengali obsession for thrillers,” is how Srijit Mukherji puts it. One is not sure if the creative and commercial failure of Ray’s film had anything to do with the long gap, but Dutt says, “In Bengal, no one but Ray (Feluda and Goopy-Bagha) took franchises seriously … I bought the rights of nine Byomkesh stories in 2009.” Dutt eventually went on to make six of those, the commercial success of which brought the detective back into the reckoning in films. It was Anjan Dutt’s Byomkesh Bakshi (2010) that opened the floodgates.
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After Ray’s 1966 film, the one notable adaptation came as late as 1993, with Basu Chatterjee’s TV series starring Rajit Kapur.
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For example, Sil’s Har Har Byomkesh (2015) not only has the detective on his honeymoon, but also exchanging sensual poetry from Jayadeva’s Geeta Govindam while comparing notes on the meaning of “smara-garala” with his wife Satyabati (“lust poison?” she offers as explanation), coming upon the killer’s identity in the middle of an intimate moment with her, and even spending time buying her a Banarasi sari!ĭespite being by far the best detective in Bengali fiction, cinematic adaptations of Byomkesh were surprisingly negligible for years. And these films have introduced aspects to Byomkesh that make him even more atypical. (Of course, Holmes had his Irene Adler – “to Sherlock Holmes she is always the woman”, as Watson writes in A Scandal in Bohemia – and Poirot his Countess Vera Rossakoff, the jewel thief he was smitten with, but there is nothing by way of a conjugal life resembling Byomkesh’s.)ĪLSO READ: THE MYSTERIOUS BHAWAL SANNYASI COURT CASE THAT INSPIRED SRIJIT MUKHERJI’S NEXTĮxperiencing an extraordinary resurgence on the screen in the past decade, Byomkesh is all set to woo audiences again in Arindam Sil’s forthcoming film Byomkesh Gowtra. It’s his chronicler Ajit who remains one all his life – unlike Watson and Arthur Hastings. Unlike Holmes and Poirot, who remained bachelors, Byomkesh falls in love, is very much a family man and even has a son. Though Byomkesh and Ajit have often been called Bengal’s answer to Holmes-Watson, the author himself made interventions that render such comparisons superfluous, the odd plot influences notwithstanding. If anything, Byomkesh Bakshi is in many ways unlike any other fictional private-eye, not only in India, but also internationally.įor one, here is someone who introduces himself not as a sleuth but as “satyanweshi”– a seeker of truth. That reminded me of Satyajit Ray writing to Marie Seton, while shooting Chiriyakhana (1966), about wanting to make a thriller/whodunit with “a total avoidance of occidental thriller clichés … it’s certainly not one for the Bond addicts.” And just as well. “Bakshi, Byomkesh Bakshi,” the detective introduces himself a la James Bond in Dibakar Banerjee’s testosterone-charged 2015 re-creation of Saradindu Bandopadhyay’s iconic detective.