''Kalo Bhramar'' (The Black Wasp) is an epic

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Kiriti Roy Kiriti Roy is a fictional detective of Bengali literature created by Dr. Nihar Ranjan Gupta. The first story introduces him as follows: "Kiriti Roy is six and a half feet tall, fair and stout. His curled hair is mostly combed back, and the black ...

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. The book was written in 1930's and parted into 4 volumes and in 1963, Mitra And Ghosh Publishers published the book.

Synopsis

Kalo Bhramar is a take name of one genius doctor Mr. Sanyal. But he was a serial killer. He became criminal in the eye of law due to the circumstances but he has a Robinhood type image among the poor people. He commits serial killing and each time flees from the hand of British police. Mysterious Kalo Bhramar challenges famous Detective Kriti Roy and his assistant Subrato. They tries to catch him up and move to

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. A long running cat and mouse game begins.

Film adaptation

In 2016, a Bengali language

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'' was released loosely following this novel. The film was directed by Anindya Bikas Datta.

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played the role of Kiriti Roy and Kalo Bhramar respectively.

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* Kalo Bhramar in PDF 1930s novels Novels set in Bengal Novels set in British India 20th-century Indian novels Indian Bengali-language novels Indian detective novels Indian mystery novels Indian novels adapted into films {{1930s-mystery-novel-stub