Byomkesh Bakshi is a Hindi television series based on the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi character created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The series stars Rajit Kapur and K.K. Raina as Byomkesh Bakshi and Ajit Kumar Banerjee, respectively. It features music and background score from Ananda Shankar. Upon release it became critically acclaimed.[1] It has been re-telecast on DD National from 28 March 2020 during the lockdown of 21 days due to coronavirus.[2]
Byomkesh Bakshi | |
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Genre | Detective, Thriller |
Based on | Byomkesh Bakshi by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay |
Written by | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Basu Chatterjee Mriganka Sekhar Ray |
Directed by | Basu Chatterjee |
Starring | Rajit Kapur K. K. Raina Sukanya Kulkarni |
Music by | Ananda Shankar |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 32 |
Production | |
Editors | Sanjay Malhotra (season 1) Birpal Singh, Godfrey Gonsalves (season 2) |
Running time | 40 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | DD National |
Release | 1993 1997 | –
Byomkesh Bakshi is a Bengali Detective and a truth seeker who takes on spine-chilling cases with his friend Ajitkumar Banerji. Byomkesh identifies himself as Satyanweshi meaning 'truth seeker' rather than a detective. He stands out from other legendary detectives like Poirot or Holmes because he is more concerned with truth than with law as evidenced from his cases where he lets the perpetrator die by manipulating the circumstances using their own methods as a redemption and deliverance of justice for the victim in absence of evidence as in Balak Jasoos, Ret Ka Daldal, and a few other cases.
Basu Chatterjee adapted each novel by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay into an episode (except Chiriyaghar and Aadim Shatru, which are made in two-part episodes).
There were two seasons having 32 episodes. The first season had 13 and the second season had 19 episodes.[4]