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Byomkesh Bakshi is an Indian- Bengali fictional detective created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Referring to himself as a "truth-seeker" or Satyanweshi in the stories, Bakshi is known for his proficiency with observation, logical reasoning, and forensic science which he uses to solve complicated cases, usually murders, occurring in Calcutta.
In November 1942, shortly after the Japanese take over Burma, a group of Chinese men from the Green Gang are unloading opium in Calcutta. They are suddenly ambushed and their leader gets brutally blinded by a mysterious figure. Three months later, the leader decides to return to Calcutta to investigate their missing opium.
Apr 3, 2015 · Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! is baggily based on Bandopadhyay’s first mystery, Satyanweshi, with enough revisions and genre tweaks to indicate that a great deal of thought has gone into...
Mar 28, 2015 · The Venom Of The Tarantula. When a crippled old sinner addicted to tarantula venom outwits his doctor and continues to drug himself despite being under strict observation, Byomkesh is called in...
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- He is not a Detective, He is a Satyanweshi! If you are a true blue Byomkesh fan, you already know it. In his novels he clearly marks this out and refuses to be called a detective.
- He is never an outcast or recluse, instead he is civilized man very much part of the society. In fact he was clearly portrayed as a likeable Bengali ‘Bhadralok’, which meant he was an educated gentleman.
- He was the victim of the most Indian retirement plan ever. Byomkesh fans know that in one of his adventures he meets a young woman named Satyabati, who comes to him with a plea to save her brother's life, who is wrongly accused in a murder case.
- He came out of retirement thanks to his fans. After marrying and settling Bakshi away, Sharadindu didn’t write another story about him for 16 years. But then he realised that the character’s popularity has only grown in the time he was away, and that his readers still craved for more.
Mar 29, 2020 · Comparisons that unfairly pitted the quaint charms of Basu Chatterjee-directed television series to the neo-noir leanings of the Dibakar Banerjee world. Rajit Kapur, who attacked his role with such ebullient, cocky enthusiasm, was and still is the definitive Byomkesh Bakshi for most Indians.
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Jan 1, 2006 · Menagerie, made into an award winning Bengali film in 1967 by Satyajit Ray, is considered by many the best Byomkesh Bakshi story, owning to its setting of Golap Colony far away from the hum drum of Culcutta, and because of the psychological perspectives that the author goes at length in describing.
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