Click to play videoKolkata: Feluda is back, and, as expected, with a bang. The cinematic version of Satyajit Ray-penned whodunit Kailah-e Kelenkari or A Killer in Kailash is already a box office hit.
Director Sandip Ray's latest feature film on the super sleuth is his second and the fourth in the series of Satyajit Ray's detective fiction that has hit silver screen.
But there's more to come. Feluda fans would soon have the delight of watching their swashbuckling hero chasing goons in Hong Kong on the trail of a stolen painting by the Italian Renaissance painter, Tintoretto.
“Tintoretto is relatively unknown. So I want people to know, especially younger people to know about Tintoretto. You can educate by watching a Feluda film,” says Sandip Ray.
Almost 70 per cent work on Tintoretto-r Jishu or Tintoretto's Jesus was over before it got stalled last year for want of funds.
The younger Ray now plans to complete the film by August this year and release it by Christmas. And not just Feluda fans, even the cast have their reasons for excitement.
“I want to change the voodoo. Santosh Dutta could act in two Feluda films in his lifetime. I have acted in two, and I want to do the third as well. That would be personally gratifying,” said actor Bibhu Bhattacharya.
Much has changed since the master director's first Feluda film Sonar Kella or The Golden Fortress released back in 1974.
The private investigator is now more contemporary under Sandip Ray and is as much an epitome of aggression as of cerebral skill. And with him and his two aides Tapesh and Lalmohan Babu cracking the case in the backdrop of Hong Kong high rises, that's the combination that young Feluda fans would have in their platter.
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