Filmmakers from Basu Chatterji to Satyajit Ray, Manju Dey to Swapan Ghosal, Rituparno Ghosh to Anjan Dutt have made celluloid and television versions of some Byomkesh story or another. His popularity spans three generations of Bengalis across the world and two generations of Doordarshan viewers in India. Byomkesh Bakshi is probably the best detective in Bengali literature till date. 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.
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