check it yourself how the lassi, and "desi drinks" are re invented along with a cool look of "feluda" (the cult fig.) "bengali private investigator" (originally written by Satyajit Ray in 70's) in comic strips...
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Satyajit Ray’s Detective Feluda now in Comics
28 August 2009 03:45 PM
BY SHIVA PRASAD
Famous private detective Feluda, a character created by legendary filmmaker-writer Satyajit Ray will now don a comic avatar in the series ‘The Feluda Mystries’.
Published by Penguin Books, India, two titles of the comic series namely ‘Beware in the Graveyard’ and ‘A Bagful of Mystery’ featuring Feluda’s popular detective escapades were launched recently.
About 20,000 copies of each of the titles have been published and the 48 pager titles targeted towards children above the age of 10 and adults are priced at INR 99. The comic books are available in English with most booksellers across India as well as through online stores.
Six titles have been planned under this series, which has been written by Subhadra Senguptha and illustrated by Tapas Guha. The duo, Sengupta and Guha started work on the comic strip in 2004 and it has taken over a year for each story. Some of the other titles include ‘Murder by the Sea’, ‘The Killer of Kathmandu’ and ‘Danger in Darjeeling’ and these will be published by summer 2010.
Speaking to AnimationXpress.com Tapas Guha said “The illustration style are totally mine and I have kept the style bright, colorful and uncluttered so that the reader can follow the story with ease and doesn‘t get lost with cluttered dramatic images as the main purpose is to tell the story.”
Feluda is a professional detective with a super sharp brain. His cousin Topshe and friend Lalmohan Ganguli team up with him to capture devious culprits and solve puzzling mysteries. Satyajit Ray’s adventures of Feluda have been avidly read by children for years.
Penguin Books India Editor Sudeshna Shome Ghosh said “We are positive that the comics would receive a good response. The story and visuals are very good and the production is in good quality at an affordable price.”
In ‘Beware in the Graveyard’, a sudden violent storm takes Kolkata by surprise. It also leaves Narendra Nath Biswas injured, hit by a falling tree in the Park Street Cemetery, or was it the work of some unknown assailant? Feluda starts his own investigations and soon encounters enough questions to puzzle his matchless intellect.
In ‘A Bagful of Mystery‘ Feluda’s client Dinanath Lahiri has a strange problem. On a train from Delhi to Kolkata, someone has taken his bag and replaced it with an identical one. Can Feluda find his bag and return the new bag to its rightful owner?
Source: http://www.animationxpress.com/index.php?file=story&id=22141
the original cult "feluda" as imagined by Ray
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GREEN INNOVATION:
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Harley and its desi dream
Recession makes us re think…in other words, recession makes one think about himself… Harley never thought of Indians as potential customers though the Indians are more “two wheeled” than Europeans (or Americans)… check why Harley is trying to be “generous” to become desi… we have already seen other highly egoist brands following this turn…for example, the Crocs footwear or Ed Hardy
…anyway, we have a big heart to accept dead devils :)
Kaustav SenGupta
INgene
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