stopped writing from 1938 to 1951. During that time he busied himself writing scripts for films in Bombay. After his return to West Bengal, Byomkesh stories were still in demand so he wrote Chitrachor (Picture Imperfect) in 1951 and other stories gradually on to 1970, when his last story "Bishupal Badh" (Killing of Bishupal) was left incomplete owing to his untimely death. List of stories In television, movies and other media The Byomkesh Bakshi stories have been adapted into several television series, radio programs, audio dramas, films, and video games.Chiriyakhana (1967) is an Indian Bengali-language crime thriller film based on the story of the same name, directed by Satyajit Ray and written by Bandyopadhyay and Ray, it starred Uttam Kumar as Byomkesh Bakshi. The 1993-97 Byomkesh Bakshi television series, created by Basu Chatterjee, and starring Rajit Kapur as Bakshi, and K.K. Raina as Ajit respectively, became one of the most critically acclaimed and celebrated adaptation of the character. There have been 20 Bakshi movies, with Abir Chatterjee portraying the character seven times. The Satyanweshi audio drama series created by actor Aneesh See Yay adapted twenty two Byomkesh Bakshi novels and seven original audio drama in the Malayalam language. In 2015, A Bollywood movie named Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! starring Sushant Singh Rajput in lead role was also released. He was also referenced in The Big Bang Theory Season 7 Episode 18: The Mommy Observation where Sherlock Holmes is referred to as "English Byomkesh Bakshi". Radio Mirchi has adapted several stories and novels of Byomkesh including- Satyanweshi, Pather Kanta, Durgo Rahasya etc. for their audio story programme Sunday Suspense starring RJ Mir as Byomkesh and RJ Deep as Ajit. See also Feluda Parashor Barma Kiriti Roy Roy, Pinaki. The Manichean Investigators: A Postcolonial and Cultural Rereading of the Sherlock Holmes and Byomkesh Bakshi Stories''. New Delhi: Sarup and Sons, 2008. References Bakshi, Byomkesh Bakshi, Byomkesh Bakshi, Byomkesh Bakshi, Byomkesh Bakshi, Byomkesh Bakshi, Byomkesh Bakshi, Byomkesh Indian detective novels Indian crime novels