Detective Feluda: The Golden Fortress & The Mystery of the Elephant God: Two Full-Cast BBC Radio Crime Dramas

A pair of action-packed mysteries featuring Satyajit Ray's famous super-sleuth

Prodosh Chandra Mitter – aka Feluda – has been delighting Bengali crime fans since 1965. Sometimes referred to as ‘the Indian Sherlock Holmes’, he is the literary creation of award-winning filmmaker and director Satyajit Ray, who wrote 35 stories featuring his crime-fighting exploits. Many were subsequently adapted for TV and film, and in 2007, writer Ray Grewal decided to bring two of his adventures to an international audience of radio listeners. Specially recorded in Mumbai, these thrilling dramas star Rahul Bose as Feluda, Hari Balasubramanlam as his faithful sidekick Topshe, Anupam Kher as bumbling crime writer Lalmohan Ganguly, and a host of top Bollywood actors as their various friends and foes.

The Golden Fortress – Eight-year-old Mukul has vivid visions of a past life filled with peacocks, a golden fortress – and buried treasure. But he is in mortal danger from unscrupulous rogues who want to kidnap him in order to locate the hidden hoard. It’s up to Feluda, his teenage cousin Topshe and pulp novelist Lalmohan Ganguly to protect him, and together, they travel from Kolkata to Rajasthan on the trail of the criminals...

The Mystery of the Elephant God – Visiting Benares during the festival of Durga, the brilliant private investigator is called in to investigate the theft of a valuable statuette of Ganesh. Could holy man Machchli Baba, who claims to have swum 200 miles up the Ganges, be responsible for the theft? Or is the perpetrator Feluda’s nemesis, the Moriarty-like Maganlal Meghraj? Assisted once again by Topshe and Lalmohan, Feluda sets out to unravel the puzzle.

Production credits

Written by Satyajit Ray

Dramatised by Ray Grewal from the translation by Chitrita Banerji

Produced and directed by Anne Edyvean

Technical presentation by Farhad K Dadyburjor and Graham Harper

Production co-ordinator: Lesley Allan

Original music by Sanjeev Kohli

The Golden Fortress

Feluda (Prodosh Mitter) – Rahul Bose

Lalmohan Ganguly – Anupam Kher

Topshe – Hari Bala

Gurubachan Singh – Jaspal Bhatti

Dr Hajra – Sohrab Ardeshir

Mandar Bose – Anang Desal

Uncle Sidhu – Ameen Sayanl

Sudhir Dhar – Sumantra Ghosal

Beggar/Dr Hajra – Atul Tlwarl

Bagri: – Arghya Lahlrl

Barber/Shopkeeper – Shahrookh Irani

Nilu – Yeshaswanl Dayama

Mukul – Tejaswini Tomar

First broadcast BBC World Service, 10 February 2007

The Mystery of the Elephant God

Feluda – Rahul Bose

Lalmohan Ganguly – Anupam Kher

Topshe – Hari Balasubramanlam

Maganlal Meghraj – Dalip Tahil

Machchli Baba – Jackie Shroff

Umanath Ghoshal – Anang Desai

Abhaycharan – Ameen Sayani

Vikas – Arghiya Lahiri

Inspector Tiwari – Shahrookh Irani

Niranjan – Atul Tiwari

Shashi – Sumantra Ghosal

Ruku – Hormuz Dadabhoy

Suraj – Varun Murali

First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 29 September 2007

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