Feluda in other media

This is a list of Feluda films produced by Indian and West Bengal film studios by year to the present. The series is about a fictional Indian Bengali hero who is a detective by profession and lives in Kolkata, West Bengal, India.

List of films
Number Title Year Director Producer Timeline
1 Sonar Kella 1974 Satyajit Ray Government of West Bengal Feluda original film series
2 Joi Baba Felunath 1979 R.D.B. Productions
3 Bombaiyer Bombete 2003 Sandip Ray Ushakiran Movies

D. Ramanaidu

 Feluda new series
(continuation of the original film series)
4 Kailashey Kelenkari 2007 Indranil Sen

Mou Raychowdhury

Sumita Bhattacharyay

5 Tintorettor Jishu 2008 T Sarkar Productions
6 Gorosthaney Sabdhan 2010 Mou Raychowdhury
7 Royal Bengal Rahashya 2011 Shree Venkatesh Films

Surinder Films

8 Double Feluda 2016 Eros International
9 Badshahi Angti 2014 Sandip Ray Shree Venkatesh Films

Surinder Films

 A stand-alone reboot film
10 Doorbeen 2014 Swagato Chowdhury Unofficial film

Television

Live-action

TV films of 1990s

This films are the continuation of the Feluda original film series.

Year Film Director Package Aired on Notes
1996-1997 Baksho Rahashya[1] Sandip Ray Feluda 30 DD Bangla The film was the sequel of Joi Baba Felunath (1978). First aired on DD Bangla. Then after Telecast in Bangladesh Television Later released in Nandan Complex and on DVD and VCD.
Gosaipur Sargaram[2] Rabi Ghosh died after portraying Jatayu in this telefilm.[3]
Sheyal Debota Rahasya[4]
Bosepukure Khunkharapi[4]
Joto Kando Kathmandute[5] Anup Kumar died after portraying Jatayu in this telefilm.[5]
1998-1999 Jahangirer Swarnamudra Satyajiter Goppo[6] This is the first time Bibhu Bhattacharya portrayed Jatayu.
Ghurghutiyar Ghotona
Golapi Mukto Rahashya
Ambar Sen Antardhan Rahashya
2000 Dr. Munshir Diary Satyajiter Priyo Golpo ETV Bangla This was the last time Bibhu Bhattacharya played Jatayu in a Feluda telefilm. The sequel of this television film was the theatrical film Bombaiyer Bombete (2003).

TV films and TV series of 1980s, early 1990s and 2010s

These TV series and Telefilms are not part of the original Feluda film series which was directed by Satyajit Ray and his son Sandip Ray.

Year Series Director Aired on
1986 Kissa Kathmandu Ka[7] Sandip Ray[8] DD National
1992 Ghurghutiyar Ghotona Bibhash Chakraborty DD Bangla
Golokdham Rahasya
2017 Feluda A Bangladeshi TV series and web series inspired by original Feluda which is telecasting in Channel i[9] and Bioscopelive[9] from September, 2017. The series became available in India on digital platform Addatimes.[10]

Web Series

In 2020 a web series is making, named ‘Feluda Pherot’ based on the iconic Bengali detective and there will be two popular stories, ‘Chhinnamastar Abhishap’ and ‘Joto Kando Kathmandute’. Bengali actors Tota Roy Chowdhury is playing the main character 'Feluda' and Kalpan Mitra as 'Topesh' seemed to be the his young assistant and the iconic character Lalmohan Ganguly, alias 'Jatayu' is playing by Anirban Chakraborty who played the main character in Detective Series Eken Babu before.

It will be available to stream on the web platform addatimes. The song which has been sung by Rupankar Bagchi, Rupam Islam and Anupam Roy will be out on 2nd May 2020 on Srijit Mukherji’s Facebook account.

Animated
  • In 2010 an animated TV film produced by DQE Productions titled Feluda: The Kathmandu Caper was produced and the rights were acquired by Disney Channel (India). The movie premiered on 1 January 2011.[12] DQE Productions also made a 13-episode animation series named Mysteries and Feluda after the animated TV film for Disney XD (India). The series including the TV film was set into a new universe, where Feluda, Topshe and Jatayu have many gadgets. The series is available on Amazon Prime Video India.

Timeline of Feluda Original Film Series (1974-2016)

The first two film of the series was directed by Satyajit Ray in the 70's and later films by his son Sandip Ray from the 90's till now. In the first two films Sonar Kella (1974) and Joi Baba Felunath (1978), Feluda was played by Soumitra Chatterjee. Sabyasachi Chakrabarty was playing the character from Baksho Rahashya (1996) to Double Feluda (2016).

Timeline of Feluda Original Film Series (1974-2016)
Year(s) Feature films
1974 Sonar Kella
1978 Joi Baba Felunath
1995-1997 Baksho Rahashya, Gosaipur Sargaram, Sheyal Debota Rahasya, Bosepukure Khunkharapi, Joto Kando Kathmandute
1997-1999 Jahangirer Swarnamudra, Ghurghutiyar Ghotona, Golapi Mukto Rahashya, Ambar Sen Antardhan Rahashya
2000 Dr. Munshir Diary
2003 Bombaiyer Bombete
2007 Kailashey Kelenkari
2008 Tintorettor Jishu
2010 Gorosthaney Sabdhan
2011 Royal Bengal Rahashya
2016 Double Feluda
Notes: Baksho Rahashya, Gosaipur Sargaram, Sheyal Debota Rahasya, Bosepukure Khunkharapi, Joto Kando Kathmandute, Jahangirer Swarnamudra, Ghurghutiyar Ghotona, Golapi Mukto Rahashya, Ambar Sen Antardhan Rahashya, Dr. Munshir Diary all these feature films were television films.

Cast and characters
Character Satyajit Ray's Feluda original film series Sandip Ray films Unofficial film Short film Hindi TV film of 1986 and Bengali TV films of 1992 (directed by Sandip Ray and Bibhash Chakraborty respectively) TV films of 90s (Sandip Ray films)
New Feluda film series (continuation of the original Feluda film series) A stand-alone reboot film New Feluda film series (continuation of the original Feluda film series) Animated
Sonar Kella
(1974)		 Joi Baba Felunath
(1979)		 Bombaiyer Bombete
(2003)		 Kailashey Kelenkari
(2007)		 Tintorettor Jishu
(2008)		 Gorosthaney Sabdhan
(2010)		 Royal Bengal Rahashya
(2011)		 Double Feluda
(2016)[13][14][15]		 Badshahi Angti
(2014)		 Doorbeen
(2014)		 Feluda
(2013)		 Ghurghutiyar Ghotona (1992) Golokdham Rahasya (1992) Kissa Kathmandu Mein
(1986)		 Baksho Rahashya
(1996)		 Gosaipur Sargaram
(1996)		 Sheyal Debota Rahasya
(1996)		 Bosepukure Khunkharapi
(1996)		 Joto Kando Kathmandute
(1996)		 Jahangirer Swarnamudra
(1999)		 Ghurghutiyar Ghotona
(1999)		 Golapi Mukto Rahashya
(1999)		 Ambar Sen Antardhan Rahashya
(1999)		 Dr. Munshir Diary
(2000)		 Feluda: The Kathmandu Caper
(2010)
Prodosh Chandra Mitra
Feluda		 Soumitra Chatterjee Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Abir Chatterjee Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Udai Paul Soumitra Chatterjee Shashi Kapoor Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Animated
Tapesh Ranjan Mitra
Topse		 Siddartha Chatterjee Parambrata Chatterjee Saheb Bhattacharya Sourav Das Unknown Indranil Haldar Samrat Sengupta Alankar Joshi Saswata Chatterjee Animated
Lalmohan Ganguly
Jatayu		 Santosh Dutta Bibhu Bhattacharya Unknown Mohan Agashe Rabi Ghosh Anup Kumar Bibhu Bhattacharya Bibhu Bhattacharya Animated
Shiddeshwar Basu
Sidhu Jyatha		 Harindranath Chattopadhyay Haradhan Bandopadhyay Haradhan Bandopadhyay Saim arafat prokity Paran Bandyopadhyay Manoj Mitra Ajit Bandyopadhyay (actor) Dibya Bhattacharya
Binay Mitra
Topshe's father		 Haradhan Bandopadhyay Deepankar De
Mukul Dhar Kushal Chakraborty
Dr. Hemanga Hajra Shailen Mukherjee
Amiyanath Burman Ajoy Banerjee
Mandar Bose Kamu Mukherjee
Maganlal Meghraj Utpal Dutt Utpal Dutt Mohan Agashe Mohan Agashe Animated
Ruku Jit Bose
Umanath Ghosal Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Bikash Biplab Chatterjee
Gopinath Gorey / Sanyal Ashish Vidyarthi
Nimmo Rajatava Dutta
Pulok Ghoshal Paran Bandyopadhyay Mentioned only
Victor Perumal Rajesh Sharma
Inspector Patwardhan Aanjjan Srivastav
Mr. Chattoraj / Rakshit Deepankar De
Jayanta Mullick Biplab Chatterjee
Robin Chowdhury / Rajsekhar Neogi Tota Roy Chowdhury
Nandakumar / Fake Rudrasekhar Neogi Silajit Majumder
Hiralal Somani Biswajit Chakraborty
Purnendu Paul Paran Bandyopadhyay
Dr. Priyobroto Sikdar Dwijen Bandyopadhyay
Mahadeb Chowdhury Dhritiman Chatterjee
Mr. Arakis Tamal Ray Chowdhury
William Girindranath Biswas Subhasish Mukherjee
Michael Narendranath Biswas Pradip Mukherjee
Marcus Godwin Tinnu Anand
Haripada Unknown Unknown Unknown
Mahitosh Singha Ray Dr. Basudeb Mukherjee Shailesh Singh
Tarit Sengupta Bhaswar Chatterjee Siddharth Kaushik
Debotosh Singha Ray Paran Bandyopadhyay Unknown
Shashanka Sanyal Debesh Raychowdhury Niloy Kundu
Madhablal Sanjib Sarkar Unknown
Dibendyu Biswas Biplab Chatterjee Unknown
Manimohan Samaddar Bratya Basu
Nihar Ranjan Dutta Dhritiman Chatterjee
Surajit Dasgupta / Dharani Dhar Samaddar Saswata Chatterjee
Mr. Sukhwani Rajesh Sharma
Ranajit Bandyopadhyay Gaurav Chakraborty
Mr. Dastur / Suprakash Chowdhury Biswajit Chakraborty
Abani Sen Subhrajit Dutta
Subir Dutta Bhaskar Banerjee
Bonbihari Sarkar Paran Bandyopadhyay
Ganesh Guha Rajatava Dutta
Dhirendra Kumar Sanyal Biswajit Chakraborty
Dr. Shrivastav Bharat Kaul
Inspector Gorgory Dwijen Banerjee
Mahabir Tathagata Mukherjee
Byomkesh Bakshi Soumitra Chatterjee
Pupul Rangeet
Tatai Diptodeep
Bhebli Ahana
Gobinda Gargori Shantilal Mukherjee
Pupul's mother Anjana Basu
Madhabi Dutta Aparajita Auddy
Dinanath Lahiri Haradhan Bandopadhyay
Prabir Lahiri Pradip Mukherjee
Naresh Chandra Pakrashi Dibya Bhattacharya
G. C. Dhameeja Rajaram Yagnik
Dr. Rajen Munshi Subhendu Chatterjee
Arun Sengupta Dipankar De
Shankar Munshi Shankar Chakraborty
Chandranath Bose Kaushik Sen
Sukhamoy Chakraborty Arindam Sil
Dolly Munshi Bratati Bandyopadhyay
Radhakanta Mallick Bhishma Guhathakurta
George Higgins Lew Hilt

Hindi movie based on Feluda

In September 2016, Sandip Ray sold the rights to Sonar Kella to Pradeep Sarkar. Pradeep is to remake Sonar Kella, directed by Satyajit Ray, in Hindi. Nothing has been announced about the casting.[16][17]

Scripting of the Hindi adaptation of this cult detective story is currently in progress. Over the years, many in Bollywood have expressed their desire to make Feluda in general and Sonar Kella in particular. Director Shoojit Sircar was in the news for hoping to adapt Sonar Kella in Hindi. However, Sarkar finally walked away with the prized rights.

"Yes, it's true that I have bought the rights of 'Sonar Kella'. It will be inspired from 'Sonar Kella'. I have the Hindi rights to only this film and not the Feluda series. I am trying to make something very different. Once this script is ready, I will discuss it with Sandip Ray," Sarkar said.

Incidentally, no other director apart from the maestro himself and his son have ever directed a Feluda film in Bengali. Only Bibhas Chakraborty has made two Feluda telefilms. However, Sandip has been open to the idea of a good director adapting Feluda in Hindi. "I have given the rights of Baba's short story to Dibakar Banerjee. I have always maintained that if the director is competent, I am open to giving the Feluda rights in Hindi," he said.

According to Ray, the original names of the characters, including Feluda, Topshe, Jatayu, Mukul and Mandar Bose, will be changed in the Sarkar film. "I wanted to give the Hindi remake rights to a Bengali director. The advantage is that a Bengali director will have read the original book and watched the film. Things became very easy-going when Pradeep Sarkar met me to discuss this adaptation. It was a very warm and friendly meeting," Ray said, keeping the charges for remake rights a secret.

By 2017, Ray expected Sarkar to show him the screenplay. "As of now, we have had no discussions regarding the casting," Ray said. Will he want to collaborate with Sarkar once the Hindi film goes on the floor? "No, it will be his baby," Ray said.

Rumour of Feluda Hindi movie by Shoojit Sircar

In September 2013, director Shoojit Sircar told the Indian media that if he got any chance to remake Satyajit Ray's Sonar Kella for a worldwide audience,[18][19] he would cast actor Aamir Khan as Feluda.[20][21] However, in later years Sandip Ray confirmed that this would never happen, and Shoojit Sircar also stated he had told it as a joke, he was never serious about it and he had never thought of making a Feluda film.[22] As of September 2016, according to media reports, director Shoojit Sircar was trying to acquire the rights to Sonar Kella.[23][24]

Documentary

A Bengali documentary film Feluda: 50 Years of Ray's Detective was directed by Sagnik Chatterjee. This is the first biopic of India based on a fictional character. This film was released on 7 June 2019. Sandip Ray himself acted in the film.[25]

Awards

National Awards
Award Film
Sonar Kella Joi Baba Felunath
Best Feature Film in Bengali Won
Best Direction Won (Satyajit Ray)
Best Screenplay Won (Satyajit Ray)
Best Child Artist Won (Kushal Chakraborty)
Best Cinematography Won (Soumendu Roy)
Best Children's Film Won

Other awards
Film Occasion Award Awardee Result
Sonar Kella Chicago International Film Festival Best Feature Film Sonar Kella Nominated
Bombaiyer Bombete Anandalok Awards Best Actor Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Won

See also

References
  1. Aami Aar Feluda page 8-14
  2. Aami Aar Feluda page 14-17 & 28
  3. Aami Aar Feluda page 29
  4. Aami Aar Feluda page 32
  5. Aami Aar Feluda page 33
  6. Aami Aar Feluda page 34
  7. Aami Aar Feluda (2006, ghostwritten by Sebabrata Banerjee) page 4-6
  8. Aami Aar Feluda page 3
  9. "Bioscope". Bioscope.
  10. "Watch Feluda, the popular Bengali detective web Series on Addatimes". addatimes.com.
  11. "Srijit Mukherji Shares Feluda Pherot Title Song Release Date". 1 May 2020.
  12. "Disney brings Satyajit Ray's detective Feluda to the small screen". 30 December 2010. Retrieved 19 May 2017.
  13. "ফেলু মিত্তিরের খোঁজে গোয়েন্দা". 22 February 2016.
  14. "Shaheb makes a comeback as Topshe - Times of India".
  15. Anandabazar
  16. "Sold: Hindi rights to 'Sonar Kella' - Times of India".
  17. "সুজিত নয়, প্রদীপ সরকারের হাত ধরেই ফেলুদার 'শাপমোচন' - Eisamay". 13 September 2016.
  18. "Shoojit Sircar to remake Satyajit Ray film with Aamir? - Times of India".
  19. Shoojit Sircar with Aamir to remake Satyajit Ray film? Archived 2014-12-18 at Archive.today
  20. "'Only Aamir Khan can do justice to Feluda'".
  21. "Aamir Khan to play Feluda in Shoojit Sircar's Sonar Kella?".
  22. "Aamir Khan as Bengali sleuth Feluda? - Times of India".
  23. "Shoojit Sircar planning to remake Satyajit Ray's 'Sonar Kella' in Hindi - Times of India".
  24. "Shoojit Sircar to remake 'Feluda' series in Hindi". 10 September 2016.
  25. Feluda: 50 Years Of Rays Detective Movie: Showtimes, Review, Trailer, Posters, News & Videos | eTimes, retrieved 13 July 2019
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