Years later, it’s precisely this ‘mature’ quality that grabbed Dibakar the filmmaker-lurking danger, an imminent sense of doom, understated violence and the ‘sexual allure of women’. It was seen as a plunge into the murky, often perverse recesses of the adult mind, not for adolescents and hence out of bounds. However, the one to really tantalise his 12-year-old self the most was the forbidden Byomkesh Bakshi. As a fan of detective fiction, he grew up reading Sherlock Holmes in Bengali and, of course, every Bengali kid’s sleuthing primer, the Feluda stories. It was a script Dibakar Banerjee had in mind right after his debut film Khosla Ka Ghosla.
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