Dibakar Banerjee wanted ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy’ to be his first film

Bringing detective Byomkesh Bakshy alive on celluloid was Dibakar Banerjee’s childhood dream but the director says the project was scary and challenging to tackle.

A fan of Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay’s stories since the age of 13, Dibakar said he wanted ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!’ to be his first project but he is glad that he took over the movie only after gaining experience but it was bewildering all the same.

“This film was different from anything that has been done or anything that I have made. We spent sleepless nights agonising over it. It was scary and a different animal and we just wanted to tame it,” Dibakar told PTI during a visit here.