
"Despite having a dated look, my Byomkesh will be targetedat the contemporary Indian audience and the generation next,and it will not be endowed with typical Bengali traitsgenerally associated with other Bengali movies on Byomkesh,"the director said.“The ‘I’ looks weaker at the end of the film’s name.

He, however, did not entirely abandon the locations, whichare mentioned in the book, and said that his team would partlyshoot there and the rest would be taken care by graphicimagery to recreate the era when Kolkata was in the grip ofWorld War II. "You can no more spot a single place with that typical 40slook," Dibakar, who has recently bought the rights of all 33Byomkesh Bakshi stories written by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay,told reporters while taking a tram ride from Esplanade withsome of his cast. In some places, he says, the houses still remain thesame, but either a modern multi-storied or a shopping mall hassprung up beside them. Not a single place in the city, not even in the oldnorthern part, retains the pure look of the 40s.

Hunting locations for his first filmon the exploits of Bengal's famous fictional detectiveByomkesh Bakshi, director Dibakar Banerjee says that he can nolonger find the Kolkata of the 40s in which the story is set.

In some places, he says, the houses still remain the same, but either a modern multi-storied or a shopping mall has sprung up beside them.Not a single place in the city, not even in the old northern part, retains the pure look of the 40s.Hunting locations for his first film on the exploits of Bengal's famous fictional detective Byomkesh Bakshi, director Dibakar Banerjee says that he can no longer find the Kolkata of the 40s in which the story is set.
