Set in 1943 Kolkata, 'Detective Byomkesh' stars Sushant Singh Rajput in the titular role besides Anand Tiwari and Bengali actress Swastika Mukherjee in other pivotal characters.
"'Byomkesh Bakshi' is one of the most challenging films of my career. It was a challenging task to recreate Kolkata (then Calcutta) because that was the time when Japan bombed Kolkata. We recreated the roads, trams and the famous China town of that era. All these were needed to portray the film in a really convincing way," Dibakar said.
"It was research work of two years. I have read many books set in that era to have a better understanding. I also spoke to people who still remember the city of that time. I researched through 1000 of photographs, " he said.
As a kid, Dibakar never used to miss any episode of Basu Chatterjee's TV series 'Byomkesh Bakshi' and says since then he has been nurturing the dream to make a film on the fictitious detective character.
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Dibakar, 45, who is behind critically acclaimed films like 'Shanghai', 'Love Sex aur Dhokha' among others, is looking forward to the release of the film.
The film chronicles the early life of the famous sleuth created by writer Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. Dibakar feels Sushant is apt for the film.
"This film talks about the young days of Byomkesh who goes to college. I feel Sushant is such an actor who is standing on the verge of stardom and super stardom. He doesn't talk much but he has a strong will power. These are few things which matches with Byomkesh's character," he said.