Ray wrote the first Feluda story in 1965, when he revived an old family magazine, Sandesh, and their popularity led him to keep on writing them, a total of thirty-four works in all.Īs both he and his wife mention in their introductory notes to The Adventures of Feluda, the stories were written with a younger audience in mind - Ray calls Sandesh a "children's magazine" - and if not exactly cramping his style, that did impose some limitations on the stories: "No illicit love, no crime passionel, and only a modicum of violence" (a source of some frustration: his wife reports: "After finishing each story, he would throw up his hands and say, 'I have run out of plots. The Golden Fortress was not the first of Satyajit Ray's stories and novels featuring private investigator Prodosh/Pradosh Mitter (the anglicized version of Mitra), known as Feluda, but it opens the first collection of these translated into English, The Adventures of Feluda (1988) - presumably, among other reasons also because it was one of the two Feluda-tales that Satyajit Ray himself filmed. The Golden Fortress was made into a film in 1974, directed by Satyajit Rayī : quite simple and a bit plodding but has its charms.Also translated by Gopa Majumdar (2000), and published in The Complete Adventures of Feluda (vol.
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