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Byomkesh Bakshi Season 5: Ace Cinematographer Soumik Haldar Debuts as a Director

The Bengali’s engagement with Byomkesh Bakshi continues unabated, and Season 5 of the web series is another winner from SVF’s stable

A number of films in the last decade and four seasons of a popular web series – and the Bengali viewer’s love affair with Sharadindu Bandopadhyay’s popular detective shows no sign of waning. It is not difficult to figure why. In a key scene in Season 5 of the series, Byomkesh tries to explain the complications of the case to a befuddled Ajit and a police officer. Enacted with wonderful flair by Anirban Bhattacharya, the scene leaves not only the detective breathless but also the viewer trying to figure out the who’s who of the case. In the convoluted relationships that the detective sketches on the blackboard lie the charm of this season of Byomkesh Bakshi, and indeed of the web adaptations that have gone before …Click here to read the full story