The complete adventures of Feluda volume 1

The complete adventures of Feluda…by Satyajeet Ray…
Ask any true blue Bengali who is outta town about who is his favorite detective and he or she would tell you Byomkesh bakshi!!…. Everyone knows about Byomkesh!…. Even in big bang theory, Raj called him the Sherlock Holmes of India!!…. But for younger lot (now older!!) And for people still in Bengal, the greatest detective is Pradosh Mitter or Feluda!….
If Byomkesh was inspired by Sherlock then Feluda is an amalgamation of Sherlock, Poirot and lots of Tintin thrown in for good measure!!…..
So while Byomkesh stories follow a linear pattern with more brainwork, Feluda stories are more to do with legwork!…. Byomkesh gets married, gets old and has a kid while Feluda remains the same!…
I guess since Satyajeet Ray was a Smoker, he has made Feluda one too!.. In fact when Satyajeet directed a Byomkesh mystery called Chiriyakana starring Uttam da then in a big departure from the original storyline he made him smoking to his heart’s pleasure!… The risk paid of and that was apparently the best Byomkesh adaptation yet!….
Till Satyajeet Ray was alive there’s been no adaptation of Feluda stories. But over the last decade or so they have been movies, series and also an animation venture. There have been so many other adaptations like one web series which was why I started reading this seriously!!…
Coming to this collection, it’s about sixteen of his stories piled together in a big volume!….. Since I was finding it difficult to carry it everywhere I was inclined to buy the ebook too!…
Since they are individual short stories with no link to each other there was no haste in finishing it in one go!… In fact just like me you could finish Dan Brown’s latest Origin, John Grisham’s last novel Rooster bar and Robin Cook’s Charlatans and come Back to this!!….. Also note this is only the first volume and the second is in the pipeline!…
If the stories were given a touch of the hands of Remi or Herge (the creator of Tintin) and Goscinny and Uderzo (creators of Asterix) then it would have been a best selling comic book!…
All the stories have a vivid description of the places esp historical ones, so much so that the description of hotel Clark’s in Shimla just hit the nail since we were just there a couple of months back!!…. Ditto for other places like Banaras, Lucknow, Bihar , Calcutta and others…. There’s so much comedy with a character called Jatayu who is a mixture of Captain and Calculus!!😁😁…..we have the narrator Watson who is like Tintin but ends up like the sidekick!…. The then we have the multi talented (except for the smoking!) Feluda!…..
Though originally written in bengali, this translation is true to the core……
So grab this one with both you hands and get set go….Feluda!!…