Byomkesh hated the word ‘detective’ attached to his name and created his own title ‘Satyanweshi’ to explain his main function – a seeker of truth. Though Bandopadhyay stopped writing Byomkesh stories after writing ten by 1936, the popularity of Byomkesh forced him to write 22 more detective stories after a gap of 15 years. The first Byomkesh Bakshi work, Pather Kanta appeared in 1932 but Byomkesh was first introduced to Ajit in Satyanweshi, a friendship that remained till the last novel. Byomkesh solves crimes with his mind-reading skills combined with sharp intelligence and skills of observation. He is a fictional private detective created by Saradindu Bandopadhyay. Picture Imperfect and Other Byomkesh Bakshi Mysteriesīyomkesh Bakshi is a legend. He presents a very young, handsome and fresh Byomkesh but the actor who plays Ajit fails him completely though Satyavati is charming. Right now, a serial, Byomkesh Bakshi is being telecast on weekends on a Bengali satellite channel featuring Gaurav Chakraborty as Byomkesh.
The film is larger than the character and this blurs the uniqueness of Byomkesh, a character who reappears in one story after another, never ageing, never fading or jading, ready to take on cases more out of passion than for money. It is more a Dibakar Banerjee film than a film on the famous detective. For those who know Byomkesh, the film does not work after a point of time. For those who have not read Byomkesh Bakshi, the film is packaged ‘entertainment’. Satyawati is as shocking as only Dibakar can make her while Anguri adds the sizzle. This is more an effective recreation of the ‘period’ than a reconstruction of Byomkesh Bakshi.
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In Dibakar Banerjee’s Detective Byomkesh Bakshy, set in 1943 during the fag end of World War II, we find in Sushant Singh Rajput a fast-paced, action-oriented and charming Byomkesh different from the sedate, reticent, caustic-tongued, intellectual and acutely observant Byomkesh we were first introduced to by Basu Chatterji in his television series Byomkesh Bakshi in Hindi on Doordarshan in 1993 and again in 1997.ĭetective Byomkesh Bakshy is a stylised, lavishly mounted, fast-paced period piece constructed like a collage of different Byomkesh Bakshi stories telescoping into one another returning to the one that created the legend – Satyanweshi. He remains as young, as sharp and as shrewd as he was then 83 years later. And with the exception of some intrusively modern music (on an otherwise sharp soundtrack) and a few scenes of hyped-up 21st-century violence, the filmmakers maintain the period flavor, which is the movie’s strength.Byomkesh Bakshi was ‘born’ in 1932. Banerjee, who wrote the script with Urmi Juvekar, keeps the pace slow and easy.
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This sets off a whodunit that involves drug smuggling, patriotism in wartime (ruled by the British, Calcutta is in the path of the Japanese) and a love story made low-key by Byomkesh (a wryly understated Sushant Singh Rajput), a sometimes squeamish, often clueless genius - the kind of fellow who doesn’t recognize movie stars or politicians. He is slapped for rudeness, then hired, by Ajit (Anand Tiwari), a young man whose father, a chemist, has gone missing. The Byomkesh here is just starting out as a detective. (Kudos to the production designer, Vandana Kataria, and the cinematographer, Nikos Andritsakis.) No songs or dances here, only a straight-ahead mystery, set in a 1943 Calcutta of smoke-filled canteens and sign-encrusted streets, elegant public buildings and cramped boardinghouses.
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With Dibakar Banerjee’s atmospheric “Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!,” a Yash Raj production, he now gets the full Bollywood treatment, or perhaps the half-Bollywood treatment. (He’s even the hero of a lesser-known Satyajit Ray film, “Chiriyakhana,” or “The Zoo.”) Like Sherlock, Byomkesh started on the page - the creation of Saradindu Bandyopadhyay (1899-1970), he first appeared in 1932 - and has made the leap to the screen.
Brainy, analytical and more interested in the truth than in social niceties, the detective Byomkesh Bakshy is a kind of Bengali cousin to Sherlock Holmes.
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