Generations of Bengali children enjoyed the Feluda series; 35 stories that had all the exciting elements of a detective solving a mystery and which kept the readers enthralled till the very end. The detective was Feluda a pseudonym of Pradosh Chandra Mitra, a private sleuth who worked in Kolkata. He and his two protégés; Topshe or Tapesh Ranjan Mitra and Lalmohan Babu or Lalmohan Ganguly or Jatayu solved these mysteries. The Feluda stories were so popular that two of them were made into films in the 1970s. They were Sonar Kella or the Golden Fort and Joi Baba Felunath.
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