Byomkesh Bakshi in other media

Byomkesh Bakshi is an Indian-Bengali detective character created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Referring himself as "truth-seeker" or Satyanweshi in the stories, Bakshi is known for his proficiency with observation, logical reasoning, and forensic science which he uses to solve complicated cases, usually murders occurred. Bakshi, initially appearing in the 1932 story Satyanweshi, the character's popularity immensely increased in Bengal and other parts of India.
Many film, television, radio, audio drama and other adaptations that have been made of Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's series of detective novels featuring his character, Byomkesh.

Books

Saradindu Bandopadhyay penned 32 Byomkesh stories from 1932 to 1970 prior to his death. In his early stories, Ajit Kumar Banerjee is described as his companion, and chronicler of his stories. But in some cases Ajit also investigates in absence of Byomkesh. The stories are all written in traditional formal Bengali language. However, later the stories shift to more colloquial language. The later stories are not penned by Ajit, who was engaged in his publication business.
The stories are not very complicated but very engaging, with a long series of surprising events. The stories present a range of crimes from the first story, Satyanweshi, where Byomkesh destroys an international drug racket, to household mysteries and crimes like Arthamanartham and Makorshar Rosh.
Sharadindu did not want to continue the Byomkesh stories, due to which he stopped writing from 1938 to 1951. During that time he busied himself writing scripts for films in Bombay. After his return to West Bengal, Byomkesh stories were still in demand so he wrote Chitrachor in 1951 and other stories gradually on to 1970, when his last story "Bishupal Badh" was left incomplete owing to his untimely death.

List

There are 32 published and 1 unpublished Byomkesh stories. The list is chronologically arranged.
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Television and streaming

Actor Gaurav Chakrabarty won a Tele Academy Award in 2014 for his role as Byomkesh Bakshi for Byomkesh.

Year	Series	Actor	Director	Aired on
1980s	Byomkesh Bakshi	Ajoy Ganguli		DD Bangla
1993, 1997	Byomkesh Bakshi	Rajit Kapur	Basu Chatterjee	DD National
2004	Byomkesh Bakshi	Sudip Mukherjee	Swapan Ghoshal	DD Bangla
2007	Byomkesh	Saptarshi Roy	Swapan Ghoshal	Tara Muzik
2014	Byomkesh	Gaurav Chakrabarty	Amit Sengupta, Gopal Chakraborty, Joydeep Mukherjee	Colors Bangla
2017	Byomkesh	Anirban Bhattacharya	Sayantan Ghoshal, Soumik Chattopadhay, Soumik Halder	Hoichoi
2023	Durgo Rawhoshyo	Anirban Bhattacharya	Srijit Mukherji	Hoichoi

Sushant Singh Rajput and Anand Tiwari reprised their roles from Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! in a 2015 episode of the long running Indian TV Series C.I.D. to promote the films.
Actor Abir Chatterjee and Ritwick Chakraborty promoted the film Byomkesh Pawrbo in a daily soap Goyenda Ginni in Zee Bangla, as themselves respectively.

Radio

The Sunday Suspense series of 98.3 Radio Mirchi adapted several novels of Byomkesh Bakshi for audio stories which include Satyanweshi, Pother Kanta, Simanta Heera, Makorshar Rosh, Agnibaan, Roktomukhi Neela, Khunji Khunji Nari, Arthamanartham, Chorabali, Adwitiyo, Monimondon, Cholonar Chondo, Lohar Biscuit, Achin Pakhi, Sajarur Kanta, Durgo Rohosyo and Chitrachor, performed by Mir Afsar Ali as Byomkesh and Deep as Ajit. However, Mir left radio and Gaurav Chakrabarty replaced him. Gaurav has played Byomkesh in Banhi Patanga, Rakter Daag, Magnomoinak, Benisonghar, Chiriyakhana and Adim Ripu.

Audio drama

The Satyanweshi audio drama series created by actor Aneesh See Yay adapted twenty two novels and eight original audio dramas of Byomkesh Bakshi in Malayalam Language

Year	Original title	English title	Based On	Ref.
2019	Satyanweshi	The Truth Seeker	Satyanweshi (novel)
2019	Pathayile Mullu	The Thorn of The Path	Pother Kanta
2019	Agni Asthram	The Fire Weapon	Agnibaan
2019	Upasamharam	The Epilogue	Uposonghaar
2019	Vilpathrathinte Rahasyam	The Secret of Bequeath	Khunji Khunji Nari
2019	Bhootham	The Ghost	Byomkesh O Boroda
2019	Vamshathinte Kolapathakam	The Successor's Murder	Rokter Daag
2019	Chathuppile Chathi	The Deception With a Swamp	Chorabali
2019	Chakravyooham	The Labyrinth	Dushtochokro
2020	Chilanthiyude Visham	The Venom of Spider	Makorshar Rosh
2020	Maranathinte Chathikkuzhi	The Death Trap	Cholonar Chhondo
2020	Amoolya Vajram	The Precious Diamond	Seemanto-Heera
2020	Akjatha Kolapathaki	The Unknown Murderer	Achin Pakhi
2020	Raktham Puranda Indraneelam	The Bloody Sapphire	Roktomukhi Neela
2020	Chithram Katta Kallan	The Picture Thief	Chitrochor
2020	Randaamathe Muri	The Second Room	Room Nombor Dui
2020	Prahelika	The Riddle	Henyalir Chhondo
2020	Bomkesh AD 7907	An Epic Voyage To The Future	Original Story by Aneesh See Yay
2020	Rahasyangalude Kotta	The Fortress of Secrets	Durgo Rahasya
2020	Adhirshya Thrikonam	The Invisible Triangle	Adrishyo Trikon
2020	Thalam Thettiya Manassu	The Rhythm Less Mind	Original Story by Aneesh See Yay
2020	Jailpulli	The Incarcerated	Original Story by Aneesh See Yay
2022	Soothradharan	The Mastermind	Original Story by Aneesh See Yay
2022	Pracheena Shathru	The Ancient Enemy	Original Story by Aneesh See Yay
2022	Uttama Kallan	The Perfect Thief	Original Story by Aneesh See Yay
2022	RasaThanthram	The Chemistry Trick	Original Story by Aneesh See Yay
2022	AthulyaN	The Matchless	Adwitiyo
2023	Vajramala	The Necklace	Monimondon
2023	Amrithinte Maranam	The Death of Amrit	Amriter Mrityu
2023	Velluvili	The Challenge	Original Story by Aneesh See Yay

Video games

A hidden objects game for mobile devices called Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!: The Game was released by Games2win in 2015.

Legacy

A popular fictional detective named "Vyomkesh", has been referenced by Sita in Amish Tripathi's book Sita: Warrior of Mithila.
He was referred in The Big Bang Theory episode named "The Mommy Observation".