Pandab Goenda is a

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novel series created by

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novelist

Sasthipada Chattopadhyay Sasthipada Chattopadhyay (born 9 March 1941) is an Indian novelist and short story writer in Bengali language, Bengali. He is well known in Bengali literature for the series stories of Pandab Goenda. Career Chattopadhyay was born in 1941 in Khur ...

. The stories of Pandab Goenda are well known and popular in

Children's literature.

Characters

Pandab Goenda is a detective gang of five children who love to solve mysteries. They are ''Bablu'', ''Bilu'', ''Bhombol'', and two sisters named ''Bachchu'', ''Bichchhu''. They live in

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, accompanied by a one eyed street dog ''Panchu''. Bablu always leads the team Pandab Goenda, he also carries a pistol. The five are adventurous, intelligent and fearless. Pandab Goenda roam various parts of

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to solve cases. There characters are loosely inspired by Enid Blyton's detective book ''

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''.

Stories

The stories of Pandab Goenda were published in ''Shuktara'' magazine in late 70's but the first book was published in 1981 by New Bengal Press. Thereafter, more than 30 books have been published in this series. Some stories were published in Bengali child magazines ''

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'' and ''Shuktara''.

Adaptation

A Bengali animation television series was developed on the Pandab Goenda stories. It was telecast for a period of 4 years by

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. Under the direction of Rahul Mukhopadhyay, Pandab Goenda was adapted on the small screen by Zee Bangla TV channel titled ''Pandab Goenda''. This series was adapted from the original series but was based on a much more modern time frame. It earned huge popularity among the masses. The original storyline of the series was altered a lot and due to this particular reason, this series faced a lot of criticism from the viewers as well as from

himself after the initial promo was released.

References

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