Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay

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Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Profile

  • Name:
  • Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay
  • Born:
  • March 30, 1899
  • Died:
  • September 22, 1970

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay Biography

Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay was a famous writer from Bengal who has been associated with Bollywood as well as Bengali cinema. Byomkesh Bakshi, the famous fictional detective is a creativity of this great writer. He contributed in the forms of novels, short stories, plays and screenplays. He has also written poems and song lyrics. Kaler Mandira, GourMollar, Tumi Sandhyar Megh, Tungabhadrar Teere, Chuya-Chandan and Maru O Sangha are his famous historical fiction works. Maru O Sangha was later made into a Hindi film named Trishangni. Baroda, the Ghost Hunter is a noted character of his short stories. He has also written screenplays from his own works. His writings are always very short and generally have a twisty ending and his works are often compared to those of Balai Chand Mukhopadhyay. He often narrates in a satire way.

 

He was born to Tarabhushan and Bijaliprabha Bandyopadhyay in Jaunpur, UP of British India on 30 March 1899. His family hailed from Purnea, Bihar. He passed the matriculation examination in 1915 and joined as student in Vidyasagar College, Kolkata. His first work, Jaubansmriti, a collection of poems was published while studying at Kolkata. He was only 20 then. He became graduated in the year 1919 and later he studied law. He dedicated his whole life to writing after that.

 

He is the creator of famous detective character Byomkesh Bakshi and his first work appeared in the year 1932. Raktasandhya, another noted short story was published in the year 1939. He moved to Mumbai in 1938 to write screenplays for Bombay Talkies. In 1952 he left film industry and moved to Pune to concentrate on to writing. For nearly 2 decades later, he wrote ghost stories, historical romances and children's stories in Bengali.

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Updated: January 21, 2014

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