Byomkesh Bakshi | |
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Genre | Detective, Thriller |
Based on | Byomkesh Bakshi by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay |
Written by | Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Basu Chatterjee Mriganka Sekhar Ray |
Directed by | Basu Chatterjee |
Starring | Rajit Kapur K. K. Raina Sukanya Kulkarni |
Music by | Ananda Shankar |
Country of origin | India |
Original language | Hindi |
No. of seasons | 2 |
No. of episodes | 32 |
Production | |
Editors | Sanjay Malhotra (season 1) Birpal Singh, Godfrey Gonsalves (season 2) |
Running time | 40 minutes |
Original release | |
Network | DD National |
Release | 1993 – 1997 |
Byomkesh Bakshi is a Hindi television series based on the fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi character created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The series stars Rajit Kapur and K. K. Raina as Byomkesh Bakshi and Ajit Kumar Banerjee respectively. It features music and background score from Ananda Shankar. Upon release it became critically acclaimed. [1] It has been re-telecast on DD National from 28 March 2020 during the lockdown of 21 days due to coronavirus. [2]
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