Around the time Satyajit Ray introduced Feluda to Bengali literature, there was also Narayan Sanyal’s lawyer detective- PK Basu. Touted to be an Indian Perry Mason, this fictional character debuted on the celluloid in 1974. The first PK Basu novel ‘Nagchampa’ was made into a Bengali film called ‘Jodi Jantem’ (If Only I Knew) and Uttam Kumar was cast as P.K. Basu.
Around the time Satyajit Ray introduced Feluda to Bengali literature, there was also Narayan Sanyal’s lawyer detective- PK Basu. Touted to be an Indian Perry Mason, this fictional character debuted on the celluloid in 1974. The first PK Basu novel ‘Nagchampa’ was made into a Bengali film called ‘Jodi Jantem’ (If Only I Knew) and Uttam Kumar was cast as P.K. Basu.