Satyanweshi (novel)

Satyanweshi (Bengali: সত্যান্বেষী) also spelled Satyanveshi, (Lit: The Truth Seeker) is a detective story written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay featuring the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi and his friend, assistant, and narrator Ajit Bandyopadhyay. It is the first Byomkesh adventure written by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay.[1]

This article is about the first novel of Byomkesh Bakshi series. For the 2013 film, see Satyanweshi (film).
The Truth Seeker
AuthorSharadindu Bandyopadhyay
Original title(সত্যান্বেষী)Satyanweshi or Satyanveshi'
CountryIndia
LanguageBengali
SeriesByomkesh Bakshi
GenreDetective, Crime, Mystery
PublisherP.C. Sorkar and Sons also anthologized by Ananda Publishers
Publication date
1934 in hardcover Byomkesher diary and in the Sharadindu Omnibus in 1972
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages182 pp
Preceded bynone 
Followed byPother Kanta 

Characters
  • Byomkesh Bakshi (Atul Chandra Mitra)
  • Ajit Bandyopadhyay
  • Punti Ram
  • Dr. Anukul Babu
  • Ashwini Kumar Chodhury
  • Ghanshyam Babu
  • Police Commissioner
  • Servant
  • Inspector

Plot

Ajit Bandyopadhyay lives in a hostel, along with some other people. Ashwini Babu and Ghanshyam Babu are two of the hostel inmates; they live next to Ajit. The hostel is run by a philanthropic homeopathic doctor, Anukul Babu. Ajit has recently become aware of some murders that have happened in their locality. They seemed to have been done by the same person, possibly a serial killer.

One morning a young man named Atul Chandra Mitra comes to Anukul Babu, looking for a vacant room in the hostel. Anukul Babu informs him that there is no vacant room currently available in the hostel. Ajit was sitting nearby and offered to share his room with Atul. Atul is gratified. He even offers to pay the entire rent which Ajit accepts.

One night Ashwini Babu is murdered and Atul gets arrested. But after sometime he is released, without any explanation. That night the murderer of Ashwini Babu tries to kill Atul and Ajit, but he fails. The real killer gets arrested, who is Anukul Babu. He has been doing the business of cocaine behind homeopathy. Ashwini Babu came upon the secret and thus had to be killed.

After that, it is revealed to Ajit that Atul Chandra Mitra is really Byomkesh Bakshi who has assumed an alias to know the truth behind the chain of murders. Byomkesh takes Ajit to his home and they begin living together in the former's house with a servant, Punti Ram.

Adaptations

Radio
  • The Sunday Suspense series of 98.3 Radio Mirchi (Kolkata) adapted this novel as radio drama, voiced by Mir Afsar Ali, RJ Deep and Richard.

Television
  • This was one of the stories of 1993 TV series Byomkesh Bakshi, that were recreated for broadcasting on Doordarshan, the Indian National Network, by Basu Chatterjee, and immediately went on to become one of the most memorable episodes.
  • The story adapted into another TV series in 2014 named Byomkesh, which aired on Bengali channel ETV Bangla.

Film
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References
  1. Byomkesh: "If you want to solve this murder, think about the window."
  2. Indo-Asian News Service (10 March 2015). "Will 'Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!' become franchise?". The Indian Express. Retrieved 14 December 2018.
  3. Dibakar Banerjee said he wanted a villain who can give competition to Byomkesh.
  4. Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!: Watch Sushant Singh Rajput in the new trailer
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