In
Detective
Byomkesh
Bakshy!,
lead
actor
Sushant
Singh
Rajput
will
be
seen
donning
dhotis
and
a
moustached
look,
which
director
Dibakar
Banerjee
says
was
a
risk
that
he
took
to
break
away
from
traditional
Bollywood
hero
image.
The
crime
thriller
is
based
on
the
fictional
detective
Byomkesh
Bakshi,
a
character
created
by
the
Bengali
writer
Sharadindu
Bandyopadhyay
in
1932.
"Bollywood
has
a
tradition
of
seeing
young
men
in
a
certain
way.
The
cool
quotient
of
this
guy
is
that
he
is
very
ordinary.
He
is
a
not
a
fashionable
person.
So,
we
took
a
huge
but
calculated
risk
and
pushed
Byomkesh's
look
and
styling
which
Hindi
film
audience
has
never
seen.
"Yet
the
feel
of
the
film
is
very
contemporary,
I
really
hope
it
catches
on," Dibakar
said.
Set
in
Kolkata
of
1940s,
the
film
shows
a
young
Byomkesh
embarking
on
his
first
case
while
the
metropolis
is
in
the
grip
of
World
War
II.
The
director,
who
has
earlier
helmed
films
like
Khosla
Ka
Ghosla,
Oye
Lucky!
Lucky
Oye!
and
Shanghai,
said
that
the
global
conflict
has
an
important
role
in
the
movie.
"During
the
World
War
II,
the
nature
of
crime
changed
in
Kolkata.
There
were
air
raids
and
there
were
Japanese
spies
as
well.
And
that
point,
Kolkata
was
a
port
city
so
there
were
naturally
more
crimes.
In
this
scenario,
a
young
detective
Byomkesh
Bakshy
came
to
solve
a
mystery
-
his
first
case," he
said.
Dibakar
has
been
working
on
the
film
for
last
four
years
and
he
said
after
spending
several
sleepless
nights,
he
is
glad
to
see
that
the
love
of
his
labour
has
come
out
good.
The
Yash
Raj
Films
and
Dibakar's
co-production
also
stars
Bengali
actress
Swastika
Mukherjee
and
will
hit
theatres
on
April
3.
PTI