I was sitting in the movie theater months back waiting for காக்கி சட்டை to start. The usual trailers were running. One trailer that caught my attention other than F7 was "Detective Byomkesh Bakshi". I got curious and rattled around the internet about Detective Byomkesh Bakshi.
The literary character from the Poschim Bongo, created by a Bong story writer in the 1930's has appeared in print comics, television series and in movies. The last television series was in 2014 and the latest movie featuring the character in 2015 is the Hindi Movie trailer I saw. With over 30 comics, 10 movies and many television series Byomkesh Bakshi is one of the longest running character in the world of cinema, and longer than James Bond.
Tamil and Bengali in terms of literature have many similarities. In modern times the Bengal and Tamil literature have traveled paths equally. As country we have unity in diversity, but Indian Film Industry never really did cross cultural lingual experiment in terms of film making. Because Byomkesh Bakshi never solved a mystery in Tamil Nadu. Often Bollywood hijacks everything they could from regional movies. For instance Detective Byomkesh Bakshi. Actually its Satyawanshi Byomkesh Bakshi (ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী).
As I sat through to think why in Tamil cinema no one ever tried bring Kattabomman or Karnan or Malaikallan back on the large screen? Sherlock Holmes came back, all the Marvel Heroes came back, Batman never seems to stop... But not one character was built in Tamil Cinema that could stand with time and grow with the Tamil audience. Only Rajnikanth did that too as an individual. CID Shankar (Jai Shankar) is one character that could return to large screen. One of Jai Shankar's classic movie is this 1976 released துணிவே துணை by PRT a production house making a movie for the first time. The title credit starts after the movie runs for about 20 minutes (like 007). A modern day movie set in that period would be a real fun to watch. Somebody remade Jai Shankar's Pattanathil Boodham with Sendhil, no one has that courage to make one such today.
Living in Dubai I get to see only one Tamil movie a week at the cinemas. And I haven't missed any movie in the last few years. The pattern of Tamil cinema making is beginning to be mundane and all movies want to be mass movies. And even today's time women don't seem to have any central role in Tamil movies. Selvaraghavan did make ஆயிரத்தில் ஒருவன் bringing Chola's into the large screen, but it never went anywhere. Even Mani Ratnam and Gautam Vasudev Menon had to think inside the box to deliver hits. They cannot make பொன்னியின் செல்வன் in full, but they can sure make one chapter bringing வந்திய தேவன் on screen.
I hope that before I hit 50 years of age, some Tamil movie maker will make a classic like துணிவே துணை or மலை கள்ளன். (Both these movies dont have a Wiki Page. Planning to make one and link).
The literary character from the Poschim Bongo, created by a Bong story writer in the 1930's has appeared in print comics, television series and in movies. The last television series was in 2014 and the latest movie featuring the character in 2015 is the Hindi Movie trailer I saw. With over 30 comics, 10 movies and many television series Byomkesh Bakshi is one of the longest running character in the world of cinema, and longer than James Bond.
Tamil and Bengali in terms of literature have many similarities. In modern times the Bengal and Tamil literature have traveled paths equally. As country we have unity in diversity, but Indian Film Industry never really did cross cultural lingual experiment in terms of film making. Because Byomkesh Bakshi never solved a mystery in Tamil Nadu. Often Bollywood hijacks everything they could from regional movies. For instance Detective Byomkesh Bakshi. Actually its Satyawanshi Byomkesh Bakshi (ব্যোমকেশ বক্সী).
As I sat through to think why in Tamil cinema no one ever tried bring Kattabomman or Karnan or Malaikallan back on the large screen? Sherlock Holmes came back, all the Marvel Heroes came back, Batman never seems to stop... But not one character was built in Tamil Cinema that could stand with time and grow with the Tamil audience. Only Rajnikanth did that too as an individual. CID Shankar (Jai Shankar) is one character that could return to large screen. One of Jai Shankar's classic movie is this 1976 released துணிவே துணை by PRT a production house making a movie for the first time. The title credit starts after the movie runs for about 20 minutes (like 007). A modern day movie set in that period would be a real fun to watch. Somebody remade Jai Shankar's Pattanathil Boodham with Sendhil, no one has that courage to make one such today.
Living in Dubai I get to see only one Tamil movie a week at the cinemas. And I haven't missed any movie in the last few years. The pattern of Tamil cinema making is beginning to be mundane and all movies want to be mass movies. And even today's time women don't seem to have any central role in Tamil movies. Selvaraghavan did make ஆயிரத்தில் ஒருவன் bringing Chola's into the large screen, but it never went anywhere. Even Mani Ratnam and Gautam Vasudev Menon had to think inside the box to deliver hits. They cannot make பொன்னியின் செல்வன் in full, but they can sure make one chapter bringing வந்திய தேவன் on screen.
I hope that before I hit 50 years of age, some Tamil movie maker will make a classic like துணிவே துணை or மலை கள்ளன். (Both these movies dont have a Wiki Page. Planning to make one and link).
