"Why?" was the question that Dibakar Banerjee asked himself while embarking on the journey of adapting 'Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!' as the youthful, dhoti-clad crime solver in the politically volatile era of 1940s Calcutta.


Dibakar Banerjee. Pic/Sayyed Sameer Abedi 

Something of a childhood dream, his next film is his most ambitious and yet the most difficult project. The director, who has acquired the rights to Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's all Byomkesh stories, said his biggest motivation was the curiosity surrounding the unorthodox career choice of this young man in a time when jobs were rare to come by.