<p>As someone who constantly experiments with his films, director Dibakar Banerjee is hopeful that his latest offering ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!’ will create a space for itself in the audience. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Having lived with the project for a while, the filmmaker is relieved now that the movie is garnering good reviews and positive word-of-mouth.<br /><br /> “I am going through that stage where I am letting this film live through. You get to know the real value of a film after six months. I don’t lie, I don’t pretend and ‘pretentious cheeze nahi banata’. If that has a value, then ‘Byomkesh’ will also have a life,” Dibakar said. <br /><br />The filmmaker said his movies mostly generate strong reaction initially be it ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!’ or ‘Shanghai’ but then viewers like something that is “familiar yet unfamiliar”. <br /><br />“It is a family film, something that can be watched with children. A new set of people are going to watch ‘Byomkesh’ this week and we will get to know their reaction. I have been to theatres to gauge viewers response and I am happy people <br />are enjoying it. I have used the familiar and mixed it with something new.” <br /><br />The movie stars Sushant Singh Rajput where Dibakar has taken Saradindu Bandopadhyay’s famous literary figure and given it a new spin. <br /><br />He admits it was a risk to reinterpret Byomkesh. “It was a gamble but it was a calculated one. The taste of Indian movie watching public has to be changed and that can be done only by giving them something new. I have been trying to do that since my first film ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’. In Kolkata, only 10 per cent had extreme reaction, 90 per cent people enjoyed it,” he said. <br /> </p>
<p>As someone who constantly experiments with his films, director Dibakar Banerjee is hopeful that his latest offering ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!’ will create a space for itself in the audience. <br /><br /></p>.<p>Having lived with the project for a while, the filmmaker is relieved now that the movie is garnering good reviews and positive word-of-mouth.<br /><br /> “I am going through that stage where I am letting this film live through. You get to know the real value of a film after six months. I don’t lie, I don’t pretend and ‘pretentious cheeze nahi banata’. If that has a value, then ‘Byomkesh’ will also have a life,” Dibakar said. <br /><br />The filmmaker said his movies mostly generate strong reaction initially be it ‘Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!’ or ‘Shanghai’ but then viewers like something that is “familiar yet unfamiliar”. <br /><br />“It is a family film, something that can be watched with children. A new set of people are going to watch ‘Byomkesh’ this week and we will get to know their reaction. I have been to theatres to gauge viewers response and I am happy people <br />are enjoying it. I have used the familiar and mixed it with something new.” <br /><br />The movie stars Sushant Singh Rajput where Dibakar has taken Saradindu Bandopadhyay’s famous literary figure and given it a new spin. <br /><br />He admits it was a risk to reinterpret Byomkesh. “It was a gamble but it was a calculated one. The taste of Indian movie watching public has to be changed and that can be done only by giving them something new. I have been trying to do that since my first film ‘Khosla Ka Ghosla’. In Kolkata, only 10 per cent had extreme reaction, 90 per cent people enjoyed it,” he said. <br /> </p>
