The plot thickens

Prodosh Mitter will soon meet his match.
On screen, that is. With as many as five films being planned on Bengal���������������������������s original sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi, Feluda seems to have competition. Or does he? Actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty ��������������������������� the Feluda that Gen Y has grown up watching ��������������������������� feels the new-found interest in Byomkesh will not convert Feluda loyalists.���������������������������It���������������������������s great that five films are being made on Byomkesh Bakshi. If you ask me, they should go ahead and make 15! Sharadindu Bandopadhyay gave Bengali literature one of its first detectives, after all,��������������������������� he says.
As a reader, then, would he rather pick the dhuti-panjabi clad satyanweshi Byomkesh or the Charminar-smoking Felu Mitter? ���������������������������Feluda, for sure. Ami ajker lok and Feluda is a contemporary character. As opposed to him, Byomkesh Bakshi is a period detective,��������������������������� replies the actor, who also took the supersleuth to the stage last year. But given the setting of the Byomkesh cases ��������������������������� early 20th century Kolkata ��������������������������� how much of it can the plex-going audience identify with? He explains, ���������������������������The genre of detective fiction is such that it cuts across space and time. So, Byomkesh should be as much of a charmer as Feluda!��������������������������� That���������������������������s the code the film-makers seem to have cracked, too.