Kalo Bhramar

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Kalo Bhramar (The Black Wasp) is an epic Bengali detective novel. This is the first detective story introducing detective Kiriti Roy by Nihar Ranjan Gupta. [1] The book was written in the 1930s and divided into 4 volumes when it was published in 1963, Mitra And Ghosh Publishers published the book. [2]

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Synopsis

Kalo Bhramar is a take name of one genius doctor Mr. Sanyal. But he was a serial killer. He became criminal in the eye of law due to the circumstances but he has a Robinhood type image among the poor people. He commits serial killing and each time flees from the hand of British police. Mysterious Kalo Bhramar challenges famous Detective Kriti Roy and his assistant Subrato. They tries to catch him up and move to Burma. A long running cat and mouse game begins.

Film adaptation

In 2016, a Bengali language thriller film Kiriti O Kalo Bhromor was released loosely following this novel. [3] [4] The film was directed by Anindya Bikas Datta. Indraneil Sengupta and Kaushik Sen played the role of Kiriti Roy and Kalo Bhramar respectively. [5] [6] [7]

References

  1. "Kalo Vromor". www.goodreads.com. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  2. Gupta, Niharranjan (1963). Kalo Bhramar Ed. 1st.
  3. "Kiriti O Kalo Bhromor Movie Review {3/5}: Critic Review of Kiriti O Kalo Bhromor by Times of India", The Times of India, retrieved 2 September 2019
  4. Sen, Jash (18 December 2016). "Go goyenda! A guide to the Bengali detectives who made it to the screen and the ones who need to". Scroll.in. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  5. "Kiriti Roy". The Times of India. 19 September 2018. Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  6. "ভ্রমরের তালে কিরীটী". anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 2 September 2019.
  7. "Bitten by the Byomkesh bug". Hindustan Times. 22 August 2016. Retrieved 2 September 2019.