''Byomkesh'' is a

Bengali Bengali or Bengalee, or Bengalese may refer to: *something of, from, or related to Bengal, a large region in South Asia * Bengalis, an ethnic and linguistic group of the region * Bengali language, the language they speak ** Bengali alphabet, the ...

streaming television Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air ae ...

series based on the

Byomkesh Bakshi Byomkesh Bakshi is an Indian-Bengali fictional detective created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Referring to himself as a "truth-seeker" or Satyanweshi in the stories, Bakshi is known for his proficiency with observation, logical reasoning, and ...

character created by

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay (30 March 1899 – 22 September 1970) was an Indian Bengali-language writer. He was actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. The creator of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi, Sharadindu compos ...

. Set in the 1930s, the series is based on the adventures of Byomkesh, and his friend and biographer Ajit, who usually accompanies Bakshi during his investigations.

Anirban Bhattacharya Anirban Bhattacharya (born 7 October 1986) is an Indian actor, theatre actor, singer and director. His first successful theatre production was ''Debi Sarpamasta'', written by Manoj Mitra, directed by Debesh Chattopadhyay. His other notable works ...

portrays the lead role of

Byomkesh Byomkesh Bakshi is an Indian-Bengali fictional detective created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Referring to himself as a "truth-seeker" or Satyanweshi in the stories, Bakshi is known for his proficiency with observation, logical reasoning, and f ...

, with

Subrat Dutta Subrata Dutta (born 16 November 1975) is an actor who appears in Indian films. He is best known for his role in Bollywood films like ''Talaash'', ''Tango Charlie'', ''Zameen'', ''The Shaukeens'', ''Rakhcharitra'', ''Bhootnath Returns'' and Be ...

in the role of Byomkesh's trusted friend-turned-aide, Ajit. The first episode premiered on Saturday, October 14, 2017, being the first Byomkesh series to be available on OTT platform

hoichoi Hoichoi is an Indian subscription video on-demand and over-the-top streaming service, owned and maintained by SVF Entertainment Pvt Ltd with headquarters in Kolkata, India. It was launched on 20 September 2017. Hoichoi is currently available ...

worldwide.

Cast

Ajit Kumar Banerjee Dr. Ajit Kumar Banerjee ( bn, ড. অজিত কুমার ব্যানার্জী ) (1 September 1931 – 29 November 2014) was a noted environmentalist and expert in forest management and is known to be the father of the concept ...

(Season 1 to Season 3) *

Ridhima Ghosh Ridhima Ghosh is an Indian Bengali film and television actress. She made her acting debut in the Bengali film ''Ratporir Rupkotha'' in 2007. In 2009, she made her television debut in Bengali TV serial '' Bou Kotha Kao '' aired in Star Jalsha. ...

as Satyabati, Byomkesh's wife *Suprobhat Das as

(Since Season 4) *Tarun Chakraborty as Inspector Bidhu Bhattacharya *

Arjun Chakraborty Arjun Chakraborty ( bn, অর্জুন চক্রবর্তী) is an Indian actor and director based in Kolkata. He made his debut as an actor in the 1983 Hindi film ''Zara Si Zindagi'', and his first major role was in the 1986 film ...

as Himangsu Chowdhury *

Aryann Bhowmik Aryann Bhowmik (born 1992) is a Bengali film actor who is best known for his work in the 2011 Bengali film ''Chalo Paltai''. His acting has made a mark in the Tollywood arena. Apart from films, Aryann has also made appearances in television and ...

as Satyakam Das * Saptarshi Roy as Ushapati Das * Tulika Basu as Suchitra Das * Abanti Mohan Banerjee as Ramakanta Chowdhury * Rupsha Chatterjee as Annapurna * Oindrila Saha as Chumki * Ratan Sarkhel as Dhananjay Mondal * Gopal Talukder as Nanda Ghosh * Bhaskar Banerjee as Nripati Laha *

Monu Mukherjee Sourendra Mohan Mukherjee (1 March 1930 – 6 December 2020), known as Monu Mukhopadhyay, was an Indian actor who worked in Bengali language films and television serials. In 1958, he became a prompter. His first acting assignment was in the play ...

as Nandadulal Babu *

Indrasish Roy Indrasish Roy is an Indian film and television actor. He played the role of Tintin in serial ''Gaaner Opare''. Later he played the lead role of Chandrakiran Chowdhury, the male protagonist of serial ''Adwitiya''. He debuted in films with Kaushik ...

as Abhay Ghoshal *

Mrinal Mukherjee Mrinal Mukherjee ( – 7 May 2019) was an Indian actor, theatre personality and music director. He is the father of actor and singer Jojo. He is remembered for his negative roles in Bengali cinema. Career In 1955, Mukherjee made his debut ...

as Maharaj Ramendra Singh * Arindol Bagchi as Haripada * Biswajit Sarkar as Ramanath Neogi * Parthasarathi Deb as Ashutosh Deb *

Koushik Kar Koushik Kar ( bn, কৌশিক কর) is an Indian Bengali actor, theatre director. He started his professional acting in the year 2010 as a Minerva Repertory Theatre actor, in kolkata. His first performance was in the play ''Raja Lear'' (20 ...

as Prafulla Ray * Debranjan Nag as Anukul Babu *

Dulal Lahiri Dulal Lahiri is an Indian actor and director. He has appeared in numerous Bengali films and TV series. He was critically appreciated for his ''Cinemawalla'' (1993) a Bengali TV series starring Rituparna Sengupta. He introduced Sreelekha Mitra ...

as Korali Babu * Fahim Mirza as Sukumar, Satyabati's elder brother * Sourav Chatterjee as Fanibhushan *

Amrita Chattopadhyay Amrita Chattopadhayay is a Bengali film actress. Her debut film was Buddhadeb Dasgupta's ''Anwar ka Ajab Kissa'' After that, she acted in a number of Bengali, Hindi, and multilingual films. Early life and education Amrita did her schooling at ...

as Deepa Bhatta * Raja Goswami as Debasish Bhatta * Tamal Roy Chowdhury as Deepa's Grandfather * Joyjit Banerjee as Prabal Gupta * Debdut Ghosh as Dr. Rudra * Janardan Ghosh as Debkumar Mitra,a scientist * Nandini Chatterjee as Subhra Mitra, Debkumar's wife * Gambhira Bhattacharya as Habul * Priyanka Bhattacharjee as Rekha *

Arun Bannerjee Arun Bannerjee ( bn, অরুণ ব্যানার্জী, hi, अरुण बनर्जी) is an Indian Bengali film actor. Filmography Actor * ''Herogiri'' (2015) * ''Bhroon'' (2013) * ''Canvas'' (2013) * ''Jodi Hridoye Lekho N ...

as Rameshwar Roy * Soumya Sengupta as Dr. Asim Sen * Raajhorshee Dey as Bishu Pal * Soumyabrata Rakshit as Dr.Suresh Rakshit *

Debshankar Haldar Debshankar HaldarSpelling according tTelegraph Calcutta (or Debshankar HalderSpelling according t or Debsankar HalderThis spelling has been used in Nandikar'website.) is a Bengali theatre actor with a long career in Bengali theatre groups such a ...

as Santosh Samaddar * Soumendra Bhattacharya as Uday Samaddar * Sawon Chakraborty as Jugal Samaddar *

Krishnendu Dewanji Lakshana, also known as Krishnendu is an Indian actress working in Malayalam and Tamil films Tamil cinema, also known as Kollywood is a part of Indian Cinema; primarily engaged in production of motion pictures in the Tamil language. Ba ...

as Ravi Verma *

Darshana Banik Darshana Banik is an Indian model and actress. Banik works for the Bengali and Telugu film industry. She started her career as a model and brand ambassador for different brands like Colors, Vodafone, and Boroline. Early life Darshana Banik ...

as Hena Mallick *

Rukma Roy Rooqma Ray (also known as Rukma Roy; bn, রুকমা রায়) is an Indian television actress who predominantly appears in Bengali TV soap operas. She is known for playing the lead characters of Rajkumari Kiranmala in '' Kiranmala'' a ...

as Sukumari * Ujaan Chatterjee as Nengti * Arunima Haldar as Chingri * Indrajit Mazumder as Inspector Atul Krishna Ray aka A K Ray *

Ushasi Ray Ushasi Ray ( bn, ঊষসী রায়) is an Indian TV actress and model. She is well known for her lead role as 'Ahona' in Star Jalsha's ''Milon Tithi'' as well as for playing the titular lead as 'Bokul' in ''Bokul Kotha''. She has played ...

as Iman Devi *

Chandan Sen Chandan Sen (born 26 February 1963) is an Indian Bengali-language stage, television and film actor, playwright and director. Career He started acting in Bengali theatre in 1977. He joined ''Natya Anan'' theatre group as a creative director and ...

as Kaligoti Upadhyay

Season 1

Season 1 of the Byomkesh is based on four stories, 'Satyaneshi', 'Pather Kanta, 'Artham Anartham' and 'Makorshar Rosh' written by Bengali author Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The season was released on 14 October 2017 with two episodes, this season was directed by Sayantan Ghoshal and the second series was released on 16 December 2017.

Episodes

Season 2

In Season 2, Byomkesh will solve the mystery of Satyakam's murder. This series is based on 'Raketr Dag' another best seller in the Byomkesh. The first episode of the Season 2 was launched on 16 December 2017, later on, two other episodes are also being released by hoichoi. First two episodes were directed by Soumik Chattopadhyay, and the third episode was directed by Sayantan Ghoshal.

Episodes

Season 3

Season 3 of the Byomkesh is based on the story Shajaru’r Kanta written by author Sharadindu Bandopadhyay. In this season Byomkesh investigates a series of murders that were committed by someone using a sharpened porcupine quill.

Episodes

Season 4

Byomkesh season 4 is based on Bengali author Sharadindu Bandopadhyay's ‘Agnibaan’. The story starts with a young girl Rekha, Byomkesh's neighbor, who dies under some mysterious circumstances in her kitchen. Byomkesh takes charge of this investigation and from here the investigation of Byomkesh begun.

Episodes

Season 5

Byomkesh season 5 started streaming from 10 January 2020. The season is directed by Soumik Halder based on Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's original story 'Dushtochakra' and 'Khnuji Khnuji Nari'. All the cast remains the same except this time Suprobhat Das plays the role of Ajit.

Episodes

Season 6

Byomkesh season 6 started streaming from 8 January 2021. The season is directed by Soumik Halder based on Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's original story 'Mogno Mainak'.

Episodes

Season 7

Byomkesh season 7 released on 4 November 2021 at Diwali eve. The season is directed by Soumik Halder based on Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's original story 'Chorabali'.

Episodes

Season 8

On 20th September 2022, Hoichoi announced the new season of Byomkesh. It is based on ''Chiriyakhana'', a story on which filmmaker

Satyajit Ray Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs o ...

had made his only Byomkesh movie

Chiriyakhana ''Chiriakhana'' or ''Chiriyakhana'' ( en, The Zoo) is a 1967 Indian Bengali-language crime thriller film, based on the story of the same name by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, directed by Satyajit Ray starring Uttam Kumar as Byomkesh Bakshi. The scree ...

, starring

Uttam Kumar Uttam Kumar ( bn, উত্তম কুমার; born Arun Kumar Chattopadhyay; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980), popularly known as the Mahanayak, was an Indian actor, producer, director, script writer, composer, and singer who predom ...

. This time, Bhattacharya himself takes over the show as a showrunner, his second time after

Mandaar ''Mandaar'' ( bn, মন্দার) is an Indian Bengali language, Bengali-language Crime fiction, crime thriller Drama (film and television), drama streaming television series created by Anirban Bhattacharya and Pratik Dutta. A loose adaptatio ...

. ''Mandaar'''s co-writer Pratik Dutta has been roped in this series also. It is directed by Sudipto Roy.

References

External links

* * {{Byomkesh Bakshi Bengali-language web series Byomkesh Bakshi Hoichoi original programming Films based on works by Saradindu Bandopadhyay