Feludar Goyendagiri is an Indian
streaming television
Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as TV shows, as streaming media delivered over the Internet. Streaming television stands in contrast to dedicated terrestrial television delivered by over-the-air aer ...
series, directed by
Srijit Mukherji
Srijit Mukherji is an excellent national award winning Indian film director and screenwriter who predominantly works in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. His regular collaboration with veteran actor Prosenjit Chatterjee brought him into the ...
. It is based on the stories of the Bengali sleuth
Feluda
Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra itter'', is a fictional detective, Private investigator created by famous Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray. Feluda resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Calcutta, West Bengal. Feluda first made his ap ...
, written by
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of fil ...
. Originally known as Feluda Pherot and streaming on
Addatimes
Addatimes is an Indian on-demand video streaming platform, owned and maintained by Addatimes Media Private Limited, launched on 15 June 2016.
Content
Addatimes has offerings catering specifically to the Bengali audience by creating Original ...
, the show began streaming on Hoichoi from 17 June 2022.
Cast
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Tota Roy Chowdhury
Tota Roy Chowdhury is an Indian actor and martial artist based in Kolkata. He predominantly appears in Bengali and Hindi cinema. His notable roles include Feluda in the web TV series Feluda Pherot based on Satyajit Ray's Feluda
Feluda, or P ...
as Prodosh Chandra Mitra or
Feluda
Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra itter'', is a fictional detective, Private investigator created by famous Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray. Feluda resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Calcutta, West Bengal. Feluda first made his ap ...
* Kalpan Mitra as Topesh Ranjan Mitra or
Topshe
Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra itter'', is a fictional detective, Private investigator created by famous Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray. Feluda resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Calcutta, West Bengal. Feluda first made his a ...
*
Anirban Chakraborty
Anirban Chakrabarti is an Indian Bengali film actor. Chakrabarti is known for portraying the character ''Ekenbabu'' in a web series. He also played the character Jatayu in a web series directed by Srijit Mukherji. Currently, he is portraying the ...
as
Lalmohan Ganguly
Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu () (also spelled Jotayu), is a fictional character in the Feluda stories written by Satyajit Ray. He writes pulp crime thrillers, but is quite weak and nervous in real life. He is fairly wealthy due to the immense ...
or Jatayu
Chhinnamastar Abhishap (Addatimes)
*
Dhritiman Chatterjee
Dhritiman Chatterjee is an Indian actor. He began his acting career in 1970 as the protagonist of Satyajit Ray's ''Pratidwandi'' (''The Adversary''). Most of his acting work has been in India's "parallel", or independent, cinema with filmmaker ...
as Mahesh Chowdhury
* Arindam Ganguly as Arunendra Chowdhury
*
Samadarshi Dutta
Samadarshi Dutta is a Bengali film actor.
Career
Dutta is a Film and Television Institute of India graduate. In 2011 he debuted in acting with Shiboprosad Mukherjee and Nandita Roy
Nandita Roy (born April 3, 1955) is an Indian filmmaker a ...
as Pritindra Chowdhury
* Poulomi Das as Neelima Debi
* Krishnendu Deowanoji as Shankarlal
*
Rishi Kaushik
Rishi Kaushik is an Indian actor who acts in serials most notably in Bengali language serials in West Bengal. He has appeared in the Star Jalsa soap operas ''Ekhane Aakash Neel'', and ''Ishti Kutum'', where he played the role of the male protag ...
as Biren Karandikar
* Adrija Dutta as Bibi
Jawto Kando Kathmandute (Addatimes)
*
Kharaj Mukherjee
Kharaj Mukherjee or Kharaj Mukhopadhyay (born 7 July 1963) is an Indian actor. He completed his early education from St. Lawrence High School, Kolkata He made his debut in Bengali film with the film ''Hulusthul'' in 1980. In the last 32 years, ...
as Maganlal Meghraj
*
Bharat Kaul
Bharat Kaul is an Indian actor mainly known for villainous and antagonist
An antagonist is a character in a story who is presented as the chief foe of the protagonist.
Etymology
The English word antagonist comes from the Greek ἀνταγω ...
as Anantalal Batra
Darjeeling Jawmjawmat (Hoichoi)
*
Barun Chanda
Barun Chanda is an Indian Bengali advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's ''Seemabaddha''.
Biography
Chanda was born in Dhaka in present day Bangladesh, b ...
as Birupakkho Majumdar
* Suprobhat Das as Samiran Majumdar
* Loknath Dey as Inspector Jotish Saha
*
Saheb Bhattacharya
Saheb Bhattacharya (or Bhattacharjee) is an Indian actor who is known for his work in Bengali cinema.
He made his debut with Prabhat Roy's National Film Award winner '' Lathi'' (1996). He has since appeared in films like '' Gorosthane Sabdhan ...
as Rajen Raina or V. Balaporiya
*
Rahul Banerjee as Pulak Ghoshal
*
Subrat Dutta
Subrata Dutta (born 16 November 1975) is an actor who appears in Indian films. He is best known for his role in Bollywood films like Talaash: The Answer Lies Within, ''Talaash'', ''Tango Charlie'', Zameen (2003 film), ''Zameen'', ''The Shaukeens' ...
as Mahadev Verma
* Munmun Roy as Suchandra
*
Indrasish Roy
Indrasish Roy is an Indian film and television actor. He played the role of Tintin in serial ''Gaaner Opare''. Later he played the lead role of Chandrakiran Chowdhury, the male protagonist of serial ''Adwitiya''. He debuted in films with Kaushik ...
as Young Birupakkho Majumdar (Guest Appearance)
* Mainak Banerjee as Rajat Bose or Ramen Brahmo
* Phalguni Chatterjee as Harinarayan Mukherjee
* Subhankar Ghatak as Loknath Beyara
Feluda Pherot
Mukherji's playwright days
In April 2008, during his playwright times, Mukherji formed his own troupe, Pandora's Act, whose first production, ''Feluda Pherot!'' at Rangashankara in July 2008 was a runaway success. It was the first ever non-canonical dramatisation of Satyajit Ray's sleuth
Feluda
Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra itter'', is a fictional detective, Private investigator created by famous Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray. Feluda resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Calcutta, West Bengal. Feluda first made his ap ...
.
Barun Chanda
Barun Chanda is an Indian Bengali advertising professional, actor and author based in the city of Kolkata. He is mostly remembered for his role in Satyajit Ray's ''Seemabaddha''.
Biography
Chanda was born in Dhaka in present day Bangladesh, b ...
, Ray's leading man in ''Seemabodhho'', and
Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chattopadhyay (born 27 June 1980) is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted as the fictional character Topshe from Feluda under Sandip Ray's direction. He made his ...
, the screen
Topshe
Feluda, or Prodosh Chandra Mitra itter'', is a fictional detective, Private investigator created by famous Indian director and writer Satyajit Ray. Feluda resides at 21 Rajani Sen Road, Ballygunge, Calcutta, West Bengal. Feluda first made his a ...
and film youth icon, starred in this production. Chanda was later cast in a supporting role in the 1st season of ''Feludar Goyendagiri.''
Addatimes series
In 2020, during the trailer launch event of the web series ''Feluda Pherot'', Rajiv Mehra, the founder of Addatimes, said that, after bringing
Parambrata Chatterjee
Parambrata Chattopadhyay (born 27 June 1980) is an Indian actor and director. Parambrata started his career with Bengali television and films. He has acted as the fictional character Topshe from Feluda under Sandip Ray's direction. He made his ...
's modern day adaptation of Feluda from Bioscope to Addatimes, he was skeptical about people's acceptance of the new avatar. While discussing the project of doing a new Feluda series, Srijit Mukherji showed his interest in directing it.
The first season, based on the story ''Chinnamastar Abhishap'', was released on Christmas 2020. The trailer of the second season, ''Jawto Kando Kathmandute'', was released simultaneously with the first season trailer and was also announced to arrive on Christmas 2020 but was later postponed to Christmas 2021 and then, was postponed indefinitely.
Moved to Hoichoi
In the Hoichoi season 5 catalogue, the platform hinted at bringing the series on their platform. The formal announcement was made on 15 April 2022, in their new content catalogue. A special promo was released on 1 May 2022, celebrating Ray's birth anniversary.
Marketing and Release
The series was announced as part of Hoichoi's new content catalogue on 15 April 2022, on the occasion of Bengali New Year. A promo was launched on 1 May 2022, coinciding with
Satyajit Ray
Satyajit Ray (; 2 May 1921 – 23 April 1992) was an Indian director, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker, author, essayist, lyricist, magazine editor, illustrator, calligrapher, and music composer. One of the greatest auteurs of fil ...
's birthday.
The official trailer was launched on 1 June 2022. The series is set to stream from 17 June onwards.
Season 1
Production
The shooting of the first season began in
Darjeeling
Darjeeling (, , ) is a town and municipality in the northernmost region of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located in the Eastern Himalayas, it has an average elevation of . To the west of Darjeeling lies the easternmost province of Nepal, ...
in March 2022 and was finished within 16 days. The series is based on Darjeeling Jawmjawmat.
Episodes
Music
The music and background score is composed by
Joy Sarkar
Sourav Sarkar, popularly known as Joy Sarkar, is a Kolkata based Indian Bengali film music composer. Sarkar mainly works in Bengali cinema and albums. He composed soundtracks for ''Jodi Ekdin'' (2010), ''Accident'' (2012), ''Muktodhara'' (201 ...
.
The title song for Feluda Pherot, which is a recreation of Satyajit Ray's legendary theme for Feluda, is sung by
Rupam Islam
Rupam Islam (born 25 January 1974) is an Indian Bengali singer, songwriter, music composer, writer and humanist. He is the lead vocalist of the popular Bengali Rock Band Fossils. He gained popularity mainly through his solo albums and his works ...
,
Rupankar Bagchi
Rupankar Bagchi, also known mononymously Rupankar is a Bengali singer-songwriter, playback singer and actor from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.
He has sung many famous songs in recent Bengali films like ''Chalo Let's Go'' (2008), ''Baishe Srabo ...
and
Anupam Roy
Anupam Roy (born 29 March 1982) is an Indian singer, singer-songwriter, music director, composer, songwriter, guitarist, playback singer from Kolkata, West Bengal. He made his debut with ''Amake Amar Moto Thakte Dao'' & ''Benche Thakar Gaan'', ...
.
The title song for Feludar Goyendagiri, which is also a recreation of Satyajit Ray's legendary theme for Feluda, is sung by Sidhu, Shilajit and Anindya Chattopadhyay.
References
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Feluda (series)
Hoichoi original programming