Ray’s Feluda is making a comeback on big screen

Ray’s son Sandip Ray, who has done the screen adaptations of many Feluda stories  by Satyajit Ray earlier, said his upcoming movie will be based on the Feluda story ‘Hatyapuri’

Satyajit Ray

Feluda, the detective created by none other than legendary filmmaker Satyajit Ray, is once again making a comeback. Ray’s son Sandip Ray, who has done the screen adaptations of many Feluda stories earlier, said his upcoming movie will be based on the Feluda story ‘Hatyapuri’, the crime thriller set in Puri, one of the major tourist destinations in Orissa.
Ray junior said the film would be shot in Puri itself and they are planning to start the shooting in the end of May, to coincide Ray’s birth centenary, and release it for Christmas. “My team and I have already visited Puri and seen the shooting site… I want to finish the shoot as soon as possible,” he said in an interview.
Cover design of Hatyapuri

At the same time, he refused to divulge the finer details including the cast and the title of the movie, thus keeping people guessing as to who would portray the fictional detective character created by his father. However, “someone having a combination of athleticism and sharpness in his look” would don the role according to him, and the names of Anirban Bhattacharya and Tota Roy Chowdhury are doing the rounds in the Bengali entertainment industry and among the movie lovers.
Cover design of Sonar Kella

In the earlier Feluda movies actors including Soumitra Chatterjee, Sabyasachi Chakrabarty, Ahmed Rubel, Shashi Kapoor, Abir Chatterjee, Parambrata Chatterjee and Tota Roy Chowdhury had played the role of the private detective. Satyajit Ray himself directed two Feluda movies - Sonar Kella (1974) and Joi Baba Felunath (1978). Sandip Ray also made a few Feluda films. The last in the series was released in 2016 and Sandip Ray said he always wanted to bring ‘Hatyapuri’ to the big screen.
Cover design of Joi Baba Felunath

Satyajit Ray wrote 35 Feluda stories, which are thrilling crime stories filled with suspense, and the last one was published in 1992. These fast-paced narratives are extremely popular in Bengal, and whenever a screen adaptation is made the film lovers receive it with great enthusiasm.
First published in the children’s magazine ‘Sandesh’, founded by Ray’s grandfather Upendrakishore Ray Chowdhury, and edited by Ray himself, ‘Hatyapuri’ revolves around Feluda’s visit to Puri for vacation along with two of his companions Tapesh Ranjan Mitra a.k.a. Topshe, who is Feluda’s assistant and cousin, and Lalmohan Ganguly a.k.a. Jatayu, a crime fiction writer. The ‘Three Musketeers’ reached the temple town to escape the heat and humidity of Calcutta in June, and relax for some time. However, there also he gets embroiled in investigating a murder that takes place in the coastal town during his stay and unravel the mystery. 
Feluda sketch by Ray

Movie buffs are eagerly waiting as to how the movie adaptation of the 1979-crime thriller would look like. Further details of the movie, including the cast and the name would be announced in a few days by Sandip Ray and the production company, SVF, simultaneously.


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