Dibakar Thrilled With Kol's Response To Detective Byomkesh Bakshy
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Director
Dibakar
Banerjee
is
relieved
after
receiving
a
"thrilling
response" to
his
latest
directorial
venture
Detective
Byomesh
Bakshy,
especially
in
Kolkata.
Initially,
Dibakar
was
scared
about
how
actor
Sushant
Singh
Rajput's
interpretation
of
the
detective
will
be
received
in
the
city,
where
the
film's
story
is
set.
But
the
positive
response
to
the
movie
has
left
the
director
in
a
happy
zone.
"We
both
(Sushant
and
I)
were
very
scared
about
what
response
the
film
will
get
in
Kolkata?
This
is
because
Byomkesh's
character
is
one
of
the
great
detectives
of
Bengali
fiction
and
we
felt
people
won't
accept
Sushant
as
Byomkesh," Dibakar
Banerjee
said
on
Sunday
during
the
promotion
of
the
film
at
a
theatre.
"But
what
we
have
gathered
from
there
(Kolkata),
shows
that
Sushant
has
really
become
Byomkesh
for
them,"
he
added.
Further,
Dibakar
says
Sushant's
impersonation
of
Byomkesh
has
created
a
new
image
of
the
detective.
"Audiences
have
a
strong
impression
of
Byomkesh
Bakshy
on
their
minds
as
they
have
been
reading
about
him
in
books
and
have
watched
a
TV
series
on
him
too.
But
what
I
can
see
now
is
that
after
Sushant's
portrayal
of
Byomkesh
Bakshy,
the
audience's
impression
has
changed," the
filmmaker
said.
Also
featuring
Swastika
Mukherjee,
the
film
Detective
Byomkesh
Bakshy,
based
on
Saradindu
Bandyopadhyay's
fictional
detective
Byomkesh
Bakshy,
was
released
this
Friday.