Byomkesh Bakshi is a fictional detective created by Bengali author Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.
12 Facts About Byomkesh Bakshi
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Byomkesh Bakshi adopts the alias Atul Chandra Mitra in this story, where he meets Ajit Bandyopadhyay, who becomes his close companion and the narrator of the Byomkesh Bakshi stories.
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The Byomkesh Bakshi stories have been adapted into various media, including films, television series, and audio dramas.
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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's most well known fictional character Byomkesh Bakshi first appeared as a character in the story Satyanweshi.
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The story is set in 1932 in the Chinabazar area of Kolkata where a 'non-government detective' Byomkesh Bakshi, owing to the permission from the police commissioner, starts living in a mess in that area under the pseudonym of Atul Chandra Mitra to probe a series of murders.
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Byomkesh Bakshi later asks Ajit to live with him at his three-story rented house at Harrison Road as his assistant and chronicler.
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Unlike other lead characters in similar detective fictional stories, Byomkesh Bakshi marries, ages, and contemplates material things such as buying a car.
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Byomkesh Bakshi meets Satyabati, his future wife and the accused Sukumar's sister, in 'Arthamanartham'.
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Byomkesh Bakshi's father Mahadev Bakshi was a mathematics teacher at a school and practised Sankhya philosophy at home while his mother was the daughter of a Vaishnavite.
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When Byomkesh Bakshi was seventeen years old, his parents died of tuberculosis.
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In 2014, Colors Bangla aired a TV series titled Byomkesh Bakshi, starring Gaurav Chakrabarty as Byomkesh Bakshi and Ridhima Ghosh as Satyabati.
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Radio Mirchi's Sunday Suspense has adapted several Byomkesh Bakshi stories, including Satyanweshi, Pather Kanta, and Durgo Rahasya, with RJ Mir initially voicing Byomkesh Bakshi, later replaced by Gaurav Chakrabarty following Mir's departure.