Mitin Masi

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Mitin Masi
First appearancePālābāra Patha Nē'i
Last appearanceSyānḍārsa Sāhēbēra Punthi
Created by Suchitra Bhattacharya
Portrayed by Rituparna Sengupta
Koel Mallick
In-universe information
Full namePragyaparamita Mukherjee
GenderFemale
OccupationDetective
Family
  • Partha
  • Tupur
SpousePartha
ChildrenBumbum
RelativesSaheli (sister), Aboni(brother in law), Tupur(niece)
Religion Hinduism
NationalityIndian
dwelling Dhakuria, Kolkata

Mitin Masi is a fictional Bengali female detective character created by Suchitra Bhattacharya.She is one of the most famous female detective and most read in Bengali novels.

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Character

Suchitra Bhattacharya created detective fictions about Mitin mainly for teenagers, although wrote some stories of Mitin for adults. [1] The real name of Mitin Masi is Pragyaparamita Mukherjee. She is in her mid 30s, lives in Dhakuria, Kolkata with her husband, Partha and son, Bumbum, and likes to cook. Mitin works as a private detective, who likes to use her mind rather than her revolver. She has a detective agency called the Third Eye. Oindrilla, popularly known as Tupur, is her niece. Tupur is a school student who assists her in many of her cases. Suchitra Bhattacharya writes many of the stories with a background of travelling to different places in India, and along with her mysteries, she also inculcates some knowledge of the culture of a particular place in her stories. Mitin's sister Saheli and her husband Aboni, Tupur's parents, are present in many of her adventures. [2]

Stories

Most of the stories of Mitin Masi were published in Pujabarshiki Anandamela, [3] [4] which include:

Apart from these, Suchitra Bhattacharya also wrote six adult detective stories of Mitin Masi namely:

Ekta Shudhu Wrong Number - Mitin caught a drug paddling gang only through a wrong number.

Bish - An extramarital affair of a woman with her son in law compelles her daughter to poison her mother to death.

Trishna Mara Geche- An innocent girl attempted suicide after being rigorously blackmailed by a notorious man. Armed with the image of murder, the innocent girl's friend sets out to take revenge on the blackmailer.

Maron Batash - A mother cannot see the suffering of her disabled son and therefore mercy-killed him by air embolism and framed her daughter in law. [1]

Megher Pore Megh - An extramarital affair of a rich businessman infuriated his dejected wife, after which she planned a cold blooded murder with the businessman's assistant.

Palabar Path Nei - Bidisha, a rich businessman's wife is blackmailed for her questionable past. The blackmailer turns out to be her own father-in-law and his illegitimate son. It's the first independent novel of the Mitin Masi series.

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References

  1. 1 2 Suchitra Bhattacharya (2008). Tin Mitin (Bengali). Kolkata: Dey's Publishing. ISBN   978-81-295-0760-0.
  2. ↑ "Detective Mitin Mashi, not middle-class tales, might be Suchitra Bhattacharya's lasting legacy". 16 May 2015. Retrieved 30 July 2017.
  3. ↑ Suchitra Bhattacharya (2014). Mitin Masi Samagra (in Bengali). Vol. I. Kolkata: Ananda Publishers. ISBN   978-9350404324.
  4. ↑ Suchitra Bhattacharya (2017). Mitin Masi Samagra (in Bengali). Vol. II. Kolkata: Ananda Publishers. ISBN   978-9350406069.
  5. ↑ "Here's the first-look poster of Arindam Sil's Mitin Mashi film". The Times of India. Retrieved 4 July 2019.
  6. ↑ BookMyShow. "Mitin Mashi Movie (2019) | Reviews, Cast & Release Date in Adilabad". BookMyShow. Retrieved 3 September 2019.
  7. ↑ "Jongole Mitin Mashi". The Times of India. ISSN   0971-8257 . Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  8. ↑ বিশ্বাস, পৃথা. "লড়াই ছাড়া আর কী উপায় কোয়েলের? 'জঙ্গলে মিতিন মাসি' দেখে এল আনন্দবাজার অনলাইন". www.anandabazar.com (in Bengali). Retrieved 21 October 2023.
  9. ↑ "Jongole Mitin Mashi: Koel Mallick's feisty sleuth busts a poaching racket and lands a punch". www.telegraphindia.com. Retrieved 21 October 2023.
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