![]() You have to know your script well enough to go back and forth.” The actor adds that having a bound script with dialogues for all the episodes was helpful. I was doing episode one and then a scene from episode 12. He says, “I would take notes on my script, because we were jumping scenes and costumes. Rajit enjoyed the “practical approach of the director”. Read: Rajit Kapur enjoyed the simplicity of Byomkesh Bakshi We spent the whole of May shooting there,” says the actor, adding that shooting the entire show took six months. The house, which was Byomkesh’s home on the show, was in Versova, Andheri (W). So, the treatment was of a film, and it was later brought together at the editing table. “Since multiple stories would be shot together at one location, we were constantly changing costumes and makeup. They first finished shooting all the scenes of Byomkesh’s house, and then went to Kolkata to shoot the other scenes. “What was extraordinary about the experience was that we didn’t shoot BB episode wise it was shot like a film,” says Rajit, adding that they shot at one location at a time. The show was different from the others that aired on TV at that time. ![]() It was a fantastic one, so I agreed immediately,” he says. “The director called me and offered me the role. Rajit says the show wasn’t a gamble for him. The audience, especially the youth, loved it, as Byomkesh was a relatable person, and not a larger-than-life character. Rajit Kapur says Byomkesh Bakshi was a dhoti-kurta clad detective. Another important character in the show was his friend Ajit, played by KK Raina. He was a soft-spoken astute investigator. Set in Kolkata, the protagonist of the show, Byomkesh, was the desi version of Sherlock Holmes. Even today, Indian audiences remember Rajit as Byomkesh.īased on stories created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay and directed by Basu Chatterjee, the show aired on Doordarshan for two seasons, one in 1993 and another in 1997. ![]() ![]() When National Award-winning actor Rajit Kapur decided to play the role of detective Byomkesh Bakshi (BB), who he describes as “an ordinary man with extraordinary powers of thinking”, little did he know that his life would change forever. ![]()
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