Byomkesh Bakshi is a Hindi television series based on the 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. It became critically acclaimed and most celebrated adaptation of the character keeping it fresh even after decades. It has been re-telecast on DD National from 28 March 2020 during the lockdown of 21 days due to coronavirus.
Synopsis
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).
Cast
Rajit Kapur as Byomkesh Bakshi / Manoj Kumar (Fake) / Nikhilesh (Fake) K.K. Raina as Ajit Kumar Banerjee / Jitendranath (Fake), Byomkesh's best-friend Sukanya Kulkarni as Satyabati Bakshi, Byomkesh's wife Kartik Dutta as Punti Ram (Servant)