When Sandip Ray read the first draft of his father’s stories based on fictional scientist Professor Shonku in 1961, he was not even 10 years old. The character appeared to him a “bit eccentric and ...

All Shonku fans are waiting with bated breath for an audio-visual extravaganza of their favourite literary character created by Satyajit Ray as the film ‘Professor Shonku O El Dorado’, based on the ...

In the ’60s, Satyajit Ray sent two men out in the world – one, to take on the world of crime, the other, into a science lab. Feluda, his detective, has been popular as a literary and screen hero, even ...

Satyajit Ray’s famous science-fiction character Professor Shonku will now be adopted for big screen with Dhritiman Chatterjee essaying the role of the world famous fictional scientist visiting Brazil ...

Ideas can be too easy, if they remain in the realm of unrealised abstraction. Like a secret, I’d always nurtured the idea of making a Professor Shonku film. Just like the detective Feluda, the ...

Chatterjee said Satyajit Ray's literary works are popular outside West Bengal as many Feluda and Shonku stories were translated into English. (IE photo) Actor Dhritiman Chatterjee has said Satyajit ...

In fact you can see a glimpse of Dhritiman as Shonku in the official poster. Satyajit Ray’s creation Professor Shonku was inspired by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s ‘Professor Challenger’ and ‘Hesoram ...

Kolkata, Nov 30 (PTI) Satyajit Ray’s famous science-fiction character Professor Shonku will now be adopted for big screen with Dhritiman Chatterjee essaying the role of the world famous fictional ...

Since the publication of the first story of the Shonku series more than half a century ago, the science fiction classic has become a cult created by Satyajit Ray. The elderly scientist Trilokeshwar ...

*The last stories written by Satyajit Ray for the Shonku series, translated into English, have now been published as The Final Adventures of Professor Shonku * In Professor Shonku, Ray created perhaps ...

Late filmmaker Satyajit Ray's son Sandip Ray said that he will make a film on Professor Shonku, a character created by his father. "I will make a film on Professor Shonku. Discussions are going on ...

Satyajit Ray's Feluda, Sharadindu Bandopadhyay's Byomkesh Bakshi, Nihar Ranjan Gupta's Kiriti Roy and Syed Mustafa Siraj's Colonel Niladri Sarkar are some of the biggest names in Bangla ...