Byomkesh
Byomkesh official poster
GenreDetective, Thriller
Created byDag Creative Media
Based onByomkesh Bakshi
by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Written bySharadindu Bandyopadhyay
(novels)
Sourav Sengupta
Joy Dasgupta
(screenplay)
Directed byAmit Sengupta
Gopal Chakraborty
Joydeep Mukherjee
Creative directorMainak Bhaumik
StarringGaurav Chakrabarty
Ridhima Ghosh
Saugata Bandyopadhyay
ComposerNeel Dutt
Country of originIndia
Original languageBengali
No. of seasons1
No. of episodes155 (list of episodes)
Production
ProducerRana Sarkar
CinematographyKiranmay Bhuiyan
EditorsShibu Sarkar
Toton Maiti
Running timeApprox. 43 minutes
Production companyDaag Creative Media
Original release
NetworkColors Bangla
Release20 November 2014 (2014-11-20) 
14 November 2015 (2015-11-14)

Byomkesh was a 2014 Indian Bengali crime fiction television series based on the Bengali sleuth Byomkesh Bakshi created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The series starred Gaurav Chakrabarty, Saugata Bandyopadhyay and Ridhima Ghosh as Byomkesh Bakshi, Ajit and Satyabati respectively.[1] The series premiered on 20 November 2014 on Colors Bangla channel and ended on 14 November 2015. The first episode was narrated by Sabyasachi Chakrabarty.

Summary

Byomkesh Bakshi (Gaurav Chakrabarty) is a young Bengali private detective who solves spine-chilling cases with his chronicler and associate Ajit Bandyopadhyay (Saugata Bandyopadhyay).

Cast

Main

Episodic appearance

  • Kaushik Bhattacharya as DSP Purandar Pandey
  • Krishnendu Dewanji as Inspector Rakhal Sarkar
  • Arjun Chakrabarty as Debashish Bhatta
  • Amrita Chattopadhyay as Deepa Bhatta
  • Paran Bandyopadhyay as Anukul Babu
  • Dwijen Bandyopadhyay as Ashwini Babu
  • Parthasarathi Deb as Ghanashyam Babu
  • Vikram Chatterjee as Bilash Mallick
  • Ena Saha as Shoiloja/Hina Mullick[lower-alpha 1]
  • Prasun Gain as Prafulla Roy
  • Arun Bannerjee as Sir Digindra Narayan
  • Arindol Bagchi as Bidhu Babu, Train Ticket collector
  • Neel Mukherjee as Nandadulal Babu
  • June Malia as Rebecca Lite
  • Sourav Das as a freedom fighter
  • Sourav Saha as Sukumar
  • Loknath Dey as Makhanlal
  • Debapratim Dasgupta as Motilal
  • Biplab Dasgupta as Chintamoni Kundu
  • Saptarshi Roy as Nilmoni Majumdar
  • Anirban Guha as DSP of Munger, Shashanka Babu
  • Chandan Sen as Dr. Debkumar Sarkar
  • Sumanta Mukherjee as Dr. Rudra
  • Subhasish Mukherjee as Boroda
  • Anindya Banerjee as Shailendra Babu/Bhuban Das
  • Phalguni Chatterjee as Kaligati Bhattacharya/Suropoti
  • Tarun Chakraborty as Police Inspector
  • Debranjan Nag as Mamdo
  • Deepak Haldar as Ramanath Niyogi
  • Rupa Bhattacharya as Pramila Pal/Shanta Sen/Tapan Sen/Medini
  • Rajat Ganguly as Mahidar Choudhury
  • Kanchana Moitra as Malati
  • Ardhendu Bannerjee as Dr. Pannalal Palit
  • Rajdeep Gupta as Inspector Ratikanta Chowdhury
  • Basudeb Mukherjee as Deep Narayan Singh
  • Amitava Das as Ramapoti/Bijoy Madhab Mukherjee
  • Prantik Banerjee as Nitai
  • Deepankar De as Ishan Chandra Majumder
  • Tapas Paul as Sadhu/Ramkishore Babu
  • Rudranil Ghosh as Bangshidhar
  • Kaushik Sen as Manilal
  • Kanchan Mullick as Murlidhar
  • Sudipta Chakraborty as Haripriya
  • Parno Mittra as Tulsi
  • Kushal Chakraborty as Nishanath Sen
  • Sampurna Lahiri as Sunaina
  • Bidipta Chakraborty as Mrs. Roy
  • Joyjit Banerjee as Sharup Kumar/Rajkumar Basu
  • Shantilal Mukherjee as Santosh Samaddar
  • Anindya Bose as Prabal Mallick
  • Hritojeet Chottopadhyay as Kumar Tridibendra Narayan Rai Bahadur
  • Aditi Chatterjee as Damayanti Sen
  • Jayanta Dutta Burman as Kamal Krishna Das
  • Badshah Maitra as Dr. Bhujangadhar Das
  • Vivaan Ghosh as Satyakam Das
  • Rohit Mukherjee as Ushapati Das
  • Partha Pratim Dutta as Sunil Sarkar
  • Tribikram Ghosh as Ramani Mohan Babu
  • Sandip Dey as Nepal Gupta
  • Indrajit Deb as Dr Sen
  • Rana Mitra as Gangadhar(Benimadhab's Son in Law)
  • Shreyasree Samanta as Laboni
  • Saurav Palodhi as Amritya
  • Rii Sen as Mohini Dutta
  • Rajesh kr Chattopadhyay as Sanat
  • Nibedita Chakraborty as Chameli(Santosh Samaddar's Wife)
  • Ditipriya Roy as Chingri
  • Tamal Roy Chowdhury as Uday Madhab Mukherjee(Deepa's and Bijoy's Grandfather)
  • Sayak Chakraborty as Rathin
  • Indrajit Mazumder as Phanish Chakraborty
  • Ashok Mukherjee as Manish Chakraborty
  • Sourav Chakraborty as Madhumoy Ghosh
  • Judhajit Banerjee as Inspector Pramod Barat
  • Kanyakumari Mukherjee / Soumili Biswas as Sulochana
  • Samir Biswas as Pranhori Poddar
  • Rishav Basu as Bijoy Sen/Amar Pal
  • Arindam Chatterjee as Himanshu Ray(Zamindar of Chorabali)/Pratul Gupta
  • Soma Chakraborty
  • Anindyo Sengupta as Manmotho (Agnibaan)
  • Dipanjan Bhattacharya Jack as Amaresh Raha
  • Arijit Chowdhury
  • Indrasish Roy
  • Ratan Sarkhel as manager of old mess of Byomkesh and Ajit
  • Ritoja Majumder
  • Anindita Sarker

Episodes

The episodes are listed as per they are aired.

Episode No. Title Part Directed By Original Air Date
1 Satyanweshi
(সত্যান্বেষী)
1 Amit Sengupta 20 November 2014
2 2 21 November 2014
3 3 22 November 2014
4 Pother Kanta
(পথের কাঁটা)
1 27 November 2014
5 2 28 November 2014
6 3 29 November 2014
7 Seemanto-Heera
(সীমন্ত-হীরা)
1 4 December 2014
8 2 5 December 2014
9 3 6 December 2014
10 Makorshar Rosh
(মাকড়সার রস)
1 11 December 2014
11 2 12 December 2014
12 3 13 December 2014
13 Arthamanartham
(অর্থমনর্থম্‌)
1 Gopal Chakraborty 18 December 2014
14 2 19 December 2014
15 3 20 December 2014
16 4 25 December 2014
17 5 26 December 2014
18 6 27 December 2014
19 Chorabali
(চোরাবালি)
1 1 January 2015
20 2 2 January 2015
21 3 3 January 2015
22 Agnibaan
(অগ্নিবাণ)
1 8 January 2015
23 2 9 January 2015
24 3 10 January 2015
25 Roktomukhi Neela
(রক্তমুখী নীলা)
1 15 January 2015
26 2 16 January 2015
27 3 17 January 2015
28 Byomkesh O Boroda
(ব্যোমকেশ ও বরদা)
1 Joydeep Mukherjee 22 January 2015
29 2 23 January 2015
30 3 24 January 2015
31 Uposonghaar
(উপসংহার)
1 29 January 2015
32 2 30 January 2015
33 3 31 January 2015
34 4 5 February 2015
35 5 6 February 2015
36 6 7 February 2015
37 7 12 February 2015
38 Adwitiyo
(অদ্বিতীয়)
1 Gopal Chakraborty 13 February 2015
39 2 14 February 2015
40 Achin Pakhi
(অচিন পাখি)
1 19 February 2015
41 2 20 February 2015
42 3 21 February 2015
43 Chitrochor
(চিত্রচোর)
1 26 February 2015
44 2 27 February 2015
45 3 28 February 2015
46 4 5 March 2015
47 5 6 March 2015
48 6 7 March 2015
49 Monimondon
(মণিমন্ডন)
1 12 March 2015
50 2 13 March 2015
51 3 14 March 2015
52 Banhi-Patanga
(বহ্নি-পতঙ্গ)
1 19 March 2015
53 2 20 March 2015
54 3 21 March 2015
55 4 26 March 2015
56 5 27 March 2015
57 6 28 March 2015
58 Adrishyo Trikon
(অদৃশ্য ত্রিকোণ)
1 2 April 2015
59 2 3 April 2015
60 Khunji Khunji Nari
(খুঁজি খুঁজি নারি)
1 4 April 2015
61 2 9 April 2015
62 Dushtochokro
(দুষ্টচক্র)
1 10 April 2015
63 2 16 April 2015
64 Durgo Rahasyo
(দুর্গরহস্য)
1 17 April 2015
65 2 18 April 2015
66 3 23 April 2015
67 4 24 April 2015
68 5 25 April 2015
69 6 30 April 2015
70 7 1 May 2015
71 Henyalir Chhondo
(হেঁয়ালির ছন্দ)
1 2 May 2015
72 2 7 May 2015
73 Adim Ripu
(আদিম রিপু)
1 8 May 2015
74 2 9 May 2015
75 3 14 May 2015
76 4 15 May 2015
77 5 16 May 2015
78 6 21 May 2015
79 Chholonar Chhondo
(ছলনার ছন্দ)
1 22 May 2015
80 2 23 May 2015
81 Lohar Biscuit
(লোহার বিস্কুট)
1 28 May 2015
82 2 29 May 2015
83 3 30 May 2015
84 Chiriyakhana
(চিড়িয়াখানা)
1 4 June 2015
85 2 5 June 2015
86 3 6 June 2015
87 4 11 June 2015
88 5 12 June 2015
89 6 13 June 2015
90 7 18 June 2015
91 Rokter Daag
(রক্তের দাগ)
1 19 June 2015
92 2 20 June 2015
93 3 25 June 2015
94 4 26 June 2015
95 Benishonghaar
(বেনীসংহার)
1 27 June 2015
96 2 2 July 2015
97 3 3 July 2015
98 4 4 July 2015
99 5 9 July 2015
100 6 10 July 2015
101 7 11 July 2015
102 8 16 July 2015
103 Room No 2
(রুম নম্বর দুই)
1 17 July 2015
104 2 18 July 2015
105 3 23 July 2015
106 4 24 July 2015
107 Magno Mainak
(মগ্নমৈনাক)
1 25 July 2015
108 2 30 July 2015
109 3 31 July 2015
110 4 1 August 2015
111 5 6 August 2015
112 6 7 August 2015
113 7 8 August 2015
114 8 13 August 2015
115 9 14 August 2015
116 10 15 August 2015
117 11 20 August 2015
118 12 21 August 2015
119 Amriter Mrityu
(অমৃতের মৃত্যু)
1 22 August 2015
120 2 27 August 2015
121 3 28 August 2015
122 4 29 August 2015
123 5 3 September 2015
124 6 4 September 2015
125 Shojarur Kanta
(শজারুর কাঁটা)
1 5 September 2015
126 2 10 September 2015
127 3 11 September 2015
128 4 12 September 2015
129 5 17 September 2015
130 6 18 September 2015
131 7 19 September 2015
132 8 24 September 2015
133 9 25 September 2015
134 10 26 September 2015
135 Kohen Kobi Kalidas
(কহেন কবি কালিদাস)
1 1 October 2015
136 2 2 October 2015
137 3 3 October 2015
138 4 8 October 2015
139 5 9 October 2015
140 6 10 October 2015
141 7 15 October 2015
142 8 16 October 2015
143 9 17 October 2015
144 10 22 October 2015
145 Bishupal Bodh
(বিশুপাল বধ)
1 23 October 2015
146 2 24 October 2015
147 3 29 October 2015
148 4 30 October 2015
149 5 31 October 2015
150 Shailo Rahasya
(শৈল রহস্য)
1 5 November 2015
151 2 6 November 2015
152 3 7 November 2015
153 4 12 November 2015
154 5 13 November 2015
155 6 14 November 2015

Controversies

It has been reported[4] that the shooting has been halted by a notification issued by the Artist Forum when they received several complaints against the production house Dag Creative Media. Complaints had been made by several artistes about non payment of dues for multiple months. The Federation of Cine Technicians and Workers of Eastern India has come out in support of the artists.

Awards

  • Actor Gaurav Chakrabarty won a Tele Academy Award (Best actor in a leading role) in 2014 for his role as Byomkesh Bakshi.

See also

Notes

  1. Ena Saha appeared in two different stories;first as Shoiloja and next as Hina Mullick

References

  1. Gaurav wows as youngest ever Byomkesh
  2. "Sabyasachi thinks, his son copies him!". The Times of India. Retrieved 19 December 2014.
  3. "6 actors who played Byomkesh Bakshi with elan". The Times of India.
  4. "Actors Unpaid, Stop-Work Order on TV's Byomkesh". The Times of India. 6 November 2015. Retrieved 7 November 2015.
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