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Much like Satyajit Ray�s evergreen sleuth Feluda, Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay�s Byomkesh Bakshi defies age. The popularity of the detective has only escalated over the years - Byomkesh, in fact, seems to have scored over Feluda. There are two Byomkesh franchises in the Bengali film industry right now, not to mention the 2015 Sushant Singh Rajput-starrer.
And now the satyanweshi, as Byomkesh prefers to call himself, enters the world wide web with Bengali OTT platform Hoichoi. An original by SVF Media, Byomkesh stars Anirban Bhattacharya, Subrat Dutta and Ridhima Ghosh in the lead roles. The hour-long first episode, comprising two stories, Satyanweshi and Pother Knata, has just been released. The episode revolves around the first adventurous meeting between Byomkesh Bakshi and his soon-to-be-friend-for-life Ajit Bandyopadhyay. It weaves together a second case in which Byomkesh solves what�s referred to as the �gramophone pin.I can�t vouch for the millennials, but Byomkesh Bakshi stories are widely read. Most of the audience knows who the culprit is and exactly how the sleuth solves the mystery. The pull, therefore, lies not so much in the story itself but the performance and production. And Hoichoi�s Byomkesh scores on these points. Directed by Sayantan Ghoshal, Byomkesh also recreates the �30s Calcutta with care (missed the art director credits) and sticks to the original stories. Crisp camerawork (Sudipta Majumdar) and editing make the experience visually enticing as well - some excellent production values here.
Byomkesh Bakshi�s shoes are not easy to fill. Not only is he being portrayed by two hugely successful stars, Abir Chatterjee and Jisshu Sengupta, on the big screen currently, the sleuth has been portrayed by none other than Bengal�s reel legend Uttam Kumar under Satyajit Ray�s direction. Subrat Dutt provides fitting support.One does hope, however, that Byomkesh Bakshi�s humor and obvious affection for Ajit comes across more as the series develops.
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