Taranath Tantrik is a

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of Bengali literature created by

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legendary novelist

Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay () (12 September 1894 – 1 November 1950) was an Indian writer in the Bengali language. His best known works are the autobiographical novel, ''Pather Panchali'' (''Song of the Little Road''), ''Aparajito (Undefeate ...

and later by his son Taradas Bandyopadhyay.

Character

Taranath Tantrik is a mystic figure and practitioner of occult. He lives with his daughter Chari in a house of Mott lane in central

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after having lost most of his supernatural powers because of misuse of

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. The person looked like a man in his mid fifties. He is an astrologer by profession and had many encounters with the supernatural forces in his extensive travels throughout the

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. He shares those experiences with two friends in his Mott lane house over cups of tea and cigarettes. It is stated that the writer is a regular visitor at Taranath’s house, sometimes with his friend, sometimes alone.

Stories

In 1940, Bibhutibhushan Bandyopadhyay created the character ''Taranath'' but he wrote only two short stories featuring this character and much of Taranath’s life is displayed prominently through these stories. Rest of six stories featuring Taranath Tantrik are written by his son Taradas Bandyopadhyay in two acclaimed books named ''Taranath Tantrik'' (1985) and ''Olatchokro'' (2003). All the stories are supernatural and paranormal, based on dark arts, mystery and magic realism.

Adaptations

Stories of Taranath was broadcast in Sunday Suspense at Kolkata

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. Bengali filmmaker Q alias

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has made

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web series named Taranath Tantrik based on the stories of ''Taranath Tantrik''. Koushik Roy and Jayanta Kripalni played the title role. The character was reimagined as TNT for a series of graphic novels by Shamik Dasgupta. In the year 2016, actor

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played as Taranath in Taranath Tantrik, a TV Series of

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* TV series * Web series
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