Feluda Sabyasachi Chakrvarty stormed Zee Bangla Mirakkel Program.

Sabyasachi Chakravarty came in the Zee Bangla Mirakkel Program on 6th May, 2013. He was invited as guest judge. Paran Banerjee and Rajatavo Dutta were the other judges. When Mir Afsar Ali asked Sabyasachi Chakravarty about the next film in the Feluda Series, he replied that he had requested director Sandip Ray to select a new Feluda. Sabyasachi Chakravarty is aging and he want another actor who is younger and suit the character of Feluda. Paran Banerjee rejected that plea and said that Sabyasachi Chakravarty looked smart and could continue portraying the detective character for more number of years. Sabyasachi Chakravarty talked about his new film where he played another detective character. It was written by writer Samaresh Majumdar. Sabyasachi Chakravarty had acted in many films of Sandip Ray where the character Prodosh Mitra or Feluda was involved. Some of the successful films where Sabyasachi Chakravarty acted included Gorosthan Sabdhan, Bombaiyer Bombete, Baksho Rahasyo, Tintoretor Jishu, to name a few. Sabyasachi Chakravarty had acted in the role of Feluda even in the Tele-serials made by Sandip Ray based on the character of Feluda. Due to the death Santosh Dutta as the character of Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatayu), Sandip Ray had to take the help of other actors. But whoever Sandip Ray had chosen to play the character of Jatayu, the person have died one after the other. Robi Ghosh played the character for some time, he died. After that Anup Kumar played the character for some time, he also died. Then bibhu Bhattacharya played the role of Jatayu for the maximum number of films. He also died last year. But after Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Chakravarty played the character of Feluda for the longest period of time. Mir and the entire unit of Zee Bangla Mirakkel Program greeted Sabyasachi Chakravarty and wished him all the success in the years to come and asked him to continue in the films of Sandip Ray in the character of Feluda.

Sandip Ray created the suspense in the thriller film Goroshane Sabdhan.

Sandip Ray created the suspense in the thriller film Goroshane Sabdhan. In 2010, Sandip Ray, the son of Oscar winning director Satyajit Ray made the excellent film Gorosthane Sabdhan. It was based on the Feluda Series written by Satyajit Ray titled Gorosthane Sabdhan. Sabyasachi Chakravarty played the role of detective Prodosh Mitra, while Bibhu Bhattacharya played the role of Lalmohan Ganguly and Saheb Bhattacharya played the role of Tapesh Ranjan. Mou Roychoudhury produced the film. There was news of digging of grave in the heritage place, the Park Street graveyard in Kolkata where the graves of renowned personalities were there. Pradip Mukherjee, was injured by a falling tree on a stormy night in Kolkata. Sabyasachi Chakravarty who played the role of Feluda did his own investigation and got a card of Pradip Mukherjee, where the initials of a number of Publishers were there. From the coat of Pradip Mukherjee other details relating to Thomas Godwin were identified. Thomas Godwin was a cook in North India who received a lot of expensive bakshish during Colonial period. He settled in Kolkata in the 18th Century, but due to bad habit of gambling, he lost most of them. His heirs included Tinnu Anand and others, whom Feluda went and interrogated. In the mean time Dhritiman Chatterjee, a rich businessman with the help of Subhashish Mukherjee, the brother of Pradip Mukherjee, dug the graves to get a Perigal Repeater. That was the name of an expensive clock. Dhritiman Chatterjee did business in antique clocks and he used the will of Thomas Godwin to get the clock illegally. Feluda stepped in and stopped the invasion. There was thrill at every level. Feluda went to the graveyard a number of times, where Jatayu got scared. He went to the house of the Godwin, when one his descendants were doing planchet, he entered the room and stole ivory box. Lastly there was drama in the room of Dhritiman Chatterjee, who used his men to strike Feluda, Topshe and Jatayu and bring them to his house for getting the expensive clock. Satyajit Ray’s original story was excellent, giving reference of old Kolkata, and history of Thomas Godwin. Sandip Ray had the uphill task of making of film at least 20 years after the story was written. But he rose up to the occasion and gifted a thriller. Sabyasachi Chakravarty and Dhritiman Chatterjee were brilliant. Bibhu Bhattacharya acted well in the film. Saheb Bhattacharya played the role of topshe for the first time after Parambrata Chatterjee left the character of Tapshe. The film should be seen by the audience.

Sabyasachi Chakravarty stormed Zee Bangla Mirakkel Program.

Sabyasachi Chakravarty in Royal Bengal Rahasya. Superstar Sabyasachi Chakravarty stormed Zee Bangla Mirakkel Program on 22nd February, 2012. He had been invited by Mir Afsar Ali in the show. Mir asked him whether he was more popular with his pet name “benuda” or as Satyajit Ray’s character “feluda”. He said people in the streets in Kolkata called him feluda. Mir again asked that recently Sabyasachi Chakravarty said that he was not going to act in the role of feluda anymore in any of the crime thrillers of Sandip Ray. In reply Sabyasachi Chakravarty denied the statement that would not act in the role of feluda anymore. What he said was that feluda should always look young. At the same time he was becoming older. So he requested Sandip Ray that he got a better feluda, a younger feluda, there is no harm in selecting him than Sabyasachi Chakravarty. Mir brought the topic on the context that “jatayu” Bibhu Bhattacharya had died last year, created huge loss in the feluda series after which Sandip Ray is also in a dilemma whether to make another film based Satyajit Ray’s crime thriller series related to feluda. Mir also said that Sabyasachi Chakravarty’s both sons had joined acting and they were doing good job. Then he said, his family chain in very long in respect of acting. His uncle Jochon Dastidar brought him to acting. Jochon Dastidar’s daughter Kheyali Dastidar and her husband Arindam Ganguly are also related to him. Sabyasachi Chakravarty appreciated the performances of all the performers namely Vicky Partho, Istiaq Nasir, Sajal, Sangeet Tiwary and others.

Noted actor Bibhu Bhattacharya passed away.

Bibhu Bhattacharya in Gorosthan Sabdhan with Sabyasachi Chakravarty.


Noted actor Bibhu Bhattacharya passed away on 22nd September, 2011. He had been popularly known for his excellent performance in Sandip Ray’s films based on Feluda Series. Bibhu Bhattacharya played the role of Lalmohan Ganguly who was popularly known as Jatayu.

He had died when three of his latest films Royal Bengal Rahasya, Bhuter Bhabisyat and Aalo Chaya had remained unreleased. He had remained a celebrated star of the films Tintoretor Jishu, Bombaiyer Bombete, Gorosthane Sabdhan and Kailashe Kalenkari. All these films were based on the detective stories of Satyajit Ray. He created a great understanding with Sabyasachi Chakravarty as Feluda, and Parambrata Chatterjee as Topse.

Bibhu Bhattacharya became a star in Bengali films from the childhood itself. He played the role of Dhruba in the film Dhruba released in 1953. From that time he acted in many classic Bengali films of the 50s including Rani Rashmoni, Prashna, Bakul, Nababidhan, Ladies Seat, Pudrabadhu and other films. He was liked by the entire Bengali film industry including Uttam Kumar, Chabi Biswas, Malina Debi and many other stalwarts of the golden age.

Viewers are absolutely dejected to know the news of death of Bibhu Bhattacharya who will always live in the hearts of numerous Bengali film lovers as Jatayu.

Review of Sandip Ray's Baksho Rahasya.

Review of Sandip Ray’s Baksho Rahasya.

Sandip Ray had the huge challenge of satisfying the tastes of readers of Satyajit Ray’s detective stories while making the film Baksho Rahashya based on the epic literature of Satyajit Ray. Satyajit Ray previously made films based on Feluda stories including Sonar Kella and Joy Baba Felunath in the 70s.

Sandip Ray used a different team in the film Baksho Rahasya, with Sabyasachi Chakravarty playing the role of Feluda, Saswata Chatterji playing the role of Topse and Robi Ghosh playing the role of Lalmohan Ganguly (Jatuyu). Previously the roles were played by Soumitra Chatterji, Siddharta Chatterji and Santosh Dutta.

In this film Feluda had to go to Shimla from Kolkata to bring back the suitcase of Haradhon Banerjee that got interchanged in train. He had to give the suitcase to Mr. Dhameja and take Haradhon Banerjee’s suitcase in turn. Feluda, Topse and Jatayu travelled from Kolkata to New Delhi in flight. From there they boarded Kalka Mail and reached Shimla.

After exchanging the bag in Shimla, Feluda was attacked by Pradip Mukherjee, the relative of Haradhon Banerjee. He kept a diamond in a kodak’s empty filmbox, which he coloured. He attacked Feluda to get it back. Feluda showed his daringness to manage him and get the diamond back. He was assaulted with a boomerang thrown by Jatayu.

The other complication arose out of a manuscript of a Book written by writer Shambhucharan who was famous for writing stories based on travel experiences. The manuscript was stolen by Mr. Pakrasi, who knew its value and who typed most of it in his type writer, as the book was unpublished and Mr. Shambhucharan’s copyright ended. Feluda to the book and the manuscript away and returned it to Haradhan Banerjee.

Feluda was attacked a number of times in the film, one time at Pretoria Street, the other times in hotel in New Delhi. The shooting of Sandip Ray in the hills of Shimla and Kufri was excellent. Although Rabi Ghosh could not match the expectation created by Santosh Dutta in the role of Jatayu, Sabyasachi Chakravarty did a great job in the role of Feluda.

The film should be preserved with English sub-titles to reach Satyajit Ray’s literature the international audience.

Feluda Team in Dadagiri

Feluda Team in Dadagiri

The different teams of Satyajit Ray's immortal creation Feluda series appeared in Sourav Ganguly's program Dadagiri in Zee Bangla. The team included old Feluda team like Soumitra Chatterji (Feluda), Siddharta Chatterji (Topse) and Kushal Chakravarty (Mukul). The new Feluda team included Sabyasachi Chakravarty (Feluda), Saswata Chatterji (Topse) and Bibhu Bhattacharya (Jatayu).

While quiz questions were asked the nostalgia relating to Satyajit Ray's immortal creation Sonar Kella and Joy Baba Felunath reflected across everybody's mind. Soumitra admitted the classic shooting in the romantic landscapes of Rajasthan in Sonar Kella gave a new dimension to the film.

It was mentioned that after the death of Santosh Dutta who had previously played the role of Jatayu, Satyajit Ray declined to make any other film on the Feluda series. Jatayu's daughter was called in the program to share her experience.

Sabyasachi Chakravarty reflected about the fact when Satyajit Ray made the films on Feluda within one year of writing the story the picture of Kolkata did not change. But When Sandip Ray made the same films after 20 years of creation of the literature he had to make alterations in the film considering the change of lifestyle of people in Kolkata. During Ray's time Green Ambassador of Jatayu showed status. During Sandip Ray's time BMW cars are common in Kolkata.

Sourav Ganguly conducted the program with brilliance. The viewers expect Sandip Ray to make more films relating to Feluda Series written by Satyajit Ray.

Review of the film Tintorretor Jishu.

Review of the film Tintorretor Jishu.

Sandip Ray, the son of renowned director Satyajit Ray, the only Indian director who received Oscar award for lifetime contribution to motion pictures, created his new film Tintorretor Jishu based on the detective story written by Satyajit Ray. His characters Prodosh Mitra (Feluda), Tapesh Mitra (Topshe) and Lal Mohan Ganguly (jatayu) all were created on screen in the film Tintorretor Jishu.

Satyajit Ray introduced his viewers with these characters with his epic film Sonar Kella and Joy Baba Felunath in the mid-70s. After that he could not make any new episode on Feluda due to the sudden death of Santosh Dutta, the actor who played the role of Lal Mohan Ganguly in Sonar Kella and Joy Baba Felunath. His son Sandip Ray had experimented with these characters and in the last few films he had stuck to one team consisting of Sabyasachi Chakravarthy playing the role of Feluda (the private investigator), Parambroto Chatterji playing the role of Topesh, and Bibhu Bhattacharya playing the role of Lal Mohan Ganguly (the writer who is an admirer of Feluda).

As Satyajit Ray’s films had always been made for international audience and whenever they have been send in International Film Festivals, English subtitles are created for the non-bengali viewers. Sandip Ray’s films also are catered to the viewership of Bengali and non-bengali audience and for those who had previously watched Satyajit Ray’s films the expectations are huge.

He had made two episodes of Satyajit Ray previously with the title Bombaiyer Bombete and Kailashe Kelenkari and both were appreciated. The story of the film revolves around the mystery relating to the painting of famous Italian painter named Tintoretto which gets stolen. Feluda chases the perpetrators of the crime from Kolkata to Hongkong to solve the mystery.

The producers had spend a lot of money on international location if compared with the other episodes of Feluda, where the scene of occurrence was related to Indian places like Jaisalmer, Benaras, Mumbai, etc. For those reasons the exotic locations had created new dimension for the Feluda-lovers across the world.

The performance of Sabyasachi had been impressive along with the performance of Bibhu Bhattacharya in a serio-comic role. Paran Banerjee had also done well in his respective role. The script had been ideal and the theme music also worth mentioning.

The only concern lies with respect to the fact that the viewers these days are posted with updated version of Hollywood films, and in that perspective whether the detective story relating to Tintorettor Jishu could update the viewers with the modern gazettes that are expected to be used by a detective of 21st century. The story is brilliant and can be compared with any successful stories of Arthur Conan Doyle or Agatha Christie. The viewers should watch the film to educate themselves with thoughtful literature based on science fiction and powerful story telling.