1997
Byomkesh gets Keshto drunk, who tells that Anadi and he studied together in school. Keshto was a good student and Anadi was the mischief. Anadi would create all sorts of issues and as a result both Keshto and Anadi got expelled. They joined the army together in WW 1 and learned how to shoot. After returning to India, they settled in Patna, where Anadi murdered a Marwari businessman and they both ran away with his money. But Anadi duped Keshto, dumped him & came to Calcutta with all the loot to start a new life.
Byomkesh goes to meet Dayal and sees Prabhat coming out of his house. Dayal is most hostile, and says he never borrowed any money from anyone & refuses to recognize Prabhat as well. Prabhat is shocked to find that Anadi had loaned Rs 5000 to Dayal.
Byomkesh inquires to find that Nipen (Anadi's secy) is adept at making key duplicates. Further inquiries scare Nitai and Nimai who meet Byomkesh and admit that they had hired the room opposite Anadi's balcony to keep an eye on him. They claim that they felt that Prabhat and Madhubala were fueling Anadi's anger towards them & may even cause harm to Anadi, so they took turns going to the hotel to keep an eye on things. On Diwali night Nimai was in the room, when he heard a shot at around 11 pm & a bullet whizzed past his ears (the bullet found lodged in the room's wall).
Byomkesh gets his friend to keep an eye on Dayal. He reports that Dayal's girl Shivli is a good girl & was seeing Prabhat. Anadi didn't want Prabhat to get married to Shivli as Dayal had no money. Anadi had loaned Rs 5000 to Dayal. Now Anadi is dead & Nitai & Nimai have claimed Rs 5000 from Dayal. Prabhat has promised to get the money for Dayal and in return Dayal has promised Prabhat to get Shivli married to him. But since then, Shivli is missing with her music instructor and Dayal is missing with his son.
Prabhat meets Byomkesh and says that he wants to leave town & wants to sell his book shop as well. Byomkesh indicates that he wants to buy the bookstore & even indicates that he might hire Nipen. Prabhat sends Nipen to meet Byomkesh.
Byomkesh confronts Nipen & accuses him of duplicating Anadi's key & stealing money from his closet. He then tells Nipen to create a duplicate key for Prabhat's bookstore. At night Byomkesh and Ajit go to the bookstore, with police hiding outside. 2 hours later, Prabhat comes inside the store to take some books. Byomkesh stops Prabhat and finds that books have currency notes bonded inside. Byomkesh reveals that Anadi wanted to marry Shivli himself & which is why he loaned Rs 5000 to Dayal. Anadi had met Prabhat in Patna & hired him to bind his black money worth Rs 240,000 into his books and kept the books in his closet for safekeeping. Only Prabhat & Anadi knew this secret. To keep Prabhat on his side, Anadi pretended to adopt him, but never signed any legal adoption papers. Nipen had the duplicate key to Anadi's closet and used to help himself to some money, whenever he needed it. When Anadi died, Nipen threw the duplicate key in the street and that's what Byomkesh found.
Then Prabhat fell in love with Shivli, but Anadi had lust for her & offered money to Dayal to get her married to him. When Prabat found out, he shot Anadi (on Diwali night, Prabhat was not in his bookstore, and he came back home to shoot Anadi) with a hired gun (the bullet passed through Anadi and lodged itself in Nimai's hotel room across the street) & then removed all the money books from his closet & hid them in his bookstore. He decided to leave Calcutta when he learner that Dayal double crossed him, took money from Shivli's teacher, and got her to go with him.
Byomkesh goes to meet Dayal and sees Prabhat coming out of his house. Dayal is most hostile, and says he never borrowed any money from anyone & refuses to recognize Prabhat as well. Prabhat is shocked to find that Anadi had loaned Rs 5000 to Dayal.
Byomkesh inquires to find that Nipen (Anadi's secy) is adept at making key duplicates. Further inquiries scare Nitai and Nimai who meet Byomkesh and admit that they had hired the room opposite Anadi's balcony to keep an eye on him. They claim that they felt that Prabhat and Madhubala were fueling Anadi's anger towards them & may even cause harm to Anadi, so they took turns going to the hotel to keep an eye on things. On Diwali night Nimai was in the room, when he heard a shot at around 11 pm & a bullet whizzed past his ears (the bullet found lodged in the room's wall).
Byomkesh gets his friend to keep an eye on Dayal. He reports that Dayal's girl Shivli is a good girl & was seeing Prabhat. Anadi didn't want Prabhat to get married to Shivli as Dayal had no money. Anadi had loaned Rs 5000 to Dayal. Now Anadi is dead & Nitai & Nimai have claimed Rs 5000 from Dayal. Prabhat has promised to get the money for Dayal and in return Dayal has promised Prabhat to get Shivli married to him. But since then, Shivli is missing with her music instructor and Dayal is missing with his son.
Prabhat meets Byomkesh and says that he wants to leave town & wants to sell his book shop as well. Byomkesh indicates that he wants to buy the bookstore & even indicates that he might hire Nipen. Prabhat sends Nipen to meet Byomkesh.
Byomkesh confronts Nipen & accuses him of duplicating Anadi's key & stealing money from his closet. He then tells Nipen to create a duplicate key for Prabhat's bookstore. At night Byomkesh and Ajit go to the bookstore, with police hiding outside. 2 hours later, Prabhat comes inside the store to take some books. Byomkesh stops Prabhat and finds that books have currency notes bonded inside. Byomkesh reveals that Anadi wanted to marry Shivli himself & which is why he loaned Rs 5000 to Dayal. Anadi had met Prabhat in Patna & hired him to bind his black money worth Rs 240,000 into his books and kept the books in his closet for safekeeping. Only Prabhat & Anadi knew this secret. To keep Prabhat on his side, Anadi pretended to adopt him, but never signed any legal adoption papers. Nipen had the duplicate key to Anadi's closet and used to help himself to some money, whenever he needed it. When Anadi died, Nipen threw the duplicate key in the street and that's what Byomkesh found.
Then Prabhat fell in love with Shivli, but Anadi had lust for her & offered money to Dayal to get her married to him. When Prabat found out, he shot Anadi (on Diwali night, Prabhat was not in his bookstore, and he came back home to shoot Anadi) with a hired gun (the bullet passed through Anadi and lodged itself in Nimai's hotel room across the street) & then removed all the money books from his closet & hid them in his bookstore. He decided to leave Calcutta when he learner that Dayal double crossed him, took money from Shivli's teacher, and got her to go with him.
Sun, May 2, 1993
North Bihar 1952. Dr Ishan Majumdar was found dead in a fort where he lived alone. His body was full of snake poison but had a huge blow on his head & a gold coin in his hand. The fort was owned by Ramkishore (Govind Namdeo), who lived with his family a short distance away from the fort in his mansion. His daughter had also died from snake bite.
The mansion is inhabited by Ramkishore, 3 sons (Bansidhar (Narain Pati), Murlidhar (Ajay Srivastava) & a young boy Gadadhar (Master Babloo)), 1 remaining daughter Tulsi (Shilpa Tulaskar) & his son-in-law (Manilal (Rakesh Dube)) husband of the elder daughter who died. A tutor Ramapati (Sashi Hans) comes to teach the younger daughter.
Ramapati tells Byomkesh that Ishan was very learned & knew the entire family history of the fort. Ramkishore was Ishan's friend & thought maybe Ishan found his family treasure hidden somewhere in the fort, which led to a gold coin found in his hands. Ramkishore also says that Ishan borrowed a torch a few days before his death, which is now missing.
Ramkishore knows that his sons will bicker over his estate, so he wants to settle matters before he dies. He plans to divide the estate between his 3 sons, but wants to give the fort to Tulsi, whom he plans to get married to Manilal. The 2 elder sons are dead opposed to the same. Byomkesh finds a diary in Ishan's living quarters which talks about a hidden treasure in the fort and indicates that Ramkishore's elder brother Ramvinod knew about the same. But he died 30 years ago.
Byomkesh talks to Tulsi who likes Ramapati & dislikes the fact that Manilal is jealous of him. Tulsi doesn't like Manilal and doesn't want to marry him. A hermit also lives in the jungle surrounding the fort & is supported by alms provided by Ramkishore. Byomkesh investigates the fort further & eventually finds the hidden chamber. He finds the missing torch, but no hidden treasure. The earthen pots in the chamber are empty. Ramkishore and the brothers fire Ramapati, over an alleged theft of a fountain pen from Manilal's room. Tulsi is adamant that she gave one fountain pen to Ramapati & that Manilal had 2, but no-one listens to her. Manilal claims that he only had 1 fountain pen. Byomkesh approaches the hermit who promises to tell him everything at night. But he is found dead when Byomkesh goes to meet him at 10 pm, snake bite marks on his leg.
Byomkesh confronts Ramkishore in front of Manilal & accuses Manilal of murdering the hermit, who was Ramvinod. They use the pretext to search the house, and search Manilal's room first & find the 2 fountain pens that are found to be full of cobra venom. Manilal confesses & Byomkesh starts his debrief. Ramkishore and Ramvinod were ordinary business men 25 years ago. Due to plague Ramkishore ran away & didn't know that Ramvinod survived. Manilal had designs on Ramkishore's wealth from the beginning. Manilal acquired snake venom from vagabonds passing thru a few years ago. His wife, Ramkishore's elder daughter, suspected Manilal & hence she became his first victim.
Manilal acquired Ramkishore's sympathy, who prepares to get Tulsi married to Manilal. That's when Ishan & Ramapati arrive on the scene. Ishan perhaps knew Ramvinod & got him to come to the estate as a hermit & live there. Ishan found the hidden treasure in the fort, but needed help. He chose Manipal, over Ramapati. Deal was to split the wealth 50:50. But Manipal killed Ishan & didn't bother to check that there was no treasure in the hidden chamber. By the time he got ready, Byomkesh arrived on the scene. Things started to unravel when Tulsi gave the pen to Ramapati. He witnessed Byomkesh talking to the hermit & decided to kill him before Sadhu / Ramvinod could tell Byomkesh anything.
Byomkesh knows the real location of the treasure, but makes Ramkishore promise 2 things: he will get Tulsi married to Ramapati and transfer the treasure to them. Then Byomkesh reveals that Rajaram and Jayaram were 2 brother ancestors of Ramkishore. One phrase in Ishan's diary said that if Rajaram and Jayaram are dead, then gold be safeguarded by Mohanlal. Mohanlal is the name of a canon in the fort. Rajaram had liquefied the gold & stuffed it into a single column in the barrel of the cannon named Mohanlal.
Ramkishore knows that his sons will bicker over his estate, so he wants to settle matters before he dies. He plans to divide the estate between his 3 sons, but wants to give the fort to Tulsi, whom he plans to get married to Manilal. The 2 elder sons are dead opposed to the same. Byomkesh finds a diary in Ishan's living quarters which talks about a hidden treasure in the fort and indicates that Ramkishore's elder brother Ramvinod knew about the same. But he died 30 years ago.
Byomkesh talks to Tulsi who likes Ramapati & dislikes the fact that Manilal is jealous of him. Tulsi doesn't like Manilal and doesn't want to marry him. A hermit also lives in the jungle surrounding the fort & is supported by alms provided by Ramkishore. Byomkesh investigates the fort further & eventually finds the hidden chamber. He finds the missing torch, but no hidden treasure. The earthen pots in the chamber are empty. Ramkishore and the brothers fire Ramapati, over an alleged theft of a fountain pen from Manilal's room. Tulsi is adamant that she gave one fountain pen to Ramapati & that Manilal had 2, but no-one listens to her. Manilal claims that he only had 1 fountain pen. Byomkesh approaches the hermit who promises to tell him everything at night. But he is found dead when Byomkesh goes to meet him at 10 pm, snake bite marks on his leg.
Byomkesh confronts Ramkishore in front of Manilal & accuses Manilal of murdering the hermit, who was Ramvinod. They use the pretext to search the house, and search Manilal's room first & find the 2 fountain pens that are found to be full of cobra venom. Manilal confesses & Byomkesh starts his debrief. Ramkishore and Ramvinod were ordinary business men 25 years ago. Due to plague Ramkishore ran away & didn't know that Ramvinod survived. Manilal had designs on Ramkishore's wealth from the beginning. Manilal acquired snake venom from vagabonds passing thru a few years ago. His wife, Ramkishore's elder daughter, suspected Manilal & hence she became his first victim.
Manilal acquired Ramkishore's sympathy, who prepares to get Tulsi married to Manilal. That's when Ishan & Ramapati arrive on the scene. Ishan perhaps knew Ramvinod & got him to come to the estate as a hermit & live there. Ishan found the hidden treasure in the fort, but needed help. He chose Manipal, over Ramapati. Deal was to split the wealth 50:50. But Manipal killed Ishan & didn't bother to check that there was no treasure in the hidden chamber. By the time he got ready, Byomkesh arrived on the scene. Things started to unravel when Tulsi gave the pen to Ramapati. He witnessed Byomkesh talking to the hermit & decided to kill him before Sadhu / Ramvinod could tell Byomkesh anything.
Byomkesh knows the real location of the treasure, but makes Ramkishore promise 2 things: he will get Tulsi married to Ramapati and transfer the treasure to them. Then Byomkesh reveals that Rajaram and Jayaram were 2 brother ancestors of Ramkishore. One phrase in Ishan's diary said that if Rajaram and Jayaram are dead, then gold be safeguarded by Mohanlal. Mohanlal is the name of a canon in the fort. Rajaram had liquefied the gold & stuffed it into a single column in the barrel of the cannon named Mohanlal.
1997
Calcutta, 1963. Nengti (Pinaki Mukherjee) is a child detective & Considers Byomkesh his master. Ajit (K.K. Raina) asks Nengti about a beautiful woman in his house. Nengti says that she is the daughter of Mr Kamal named Hema. Kamal died in Bangla riots & she came to Calcutta to stay with Santosh (Rajendra Gupta) (Santosh is master of the house where Nengti works). News reaches Byomkesh that Hema has died by falling off the balcony.
In the house are Ravi Verma (Narendra Gupta) (Santosh's secretary), Chameli (Santosh's wife), Twin boys Uday (Bhuvan Mansodia) and Jugal (Mukesh Ramani), Nengti and Chingri (Pamela Mukherjee) (who work in the house). Santosh is the head of the house & travels on weekends. The death occurred on a Saturday. Santosh & Kamal were friends & Santosh knew Hema since childhood. So, when Kamal died, he gave roof to Hema. Chameli didn't like Hema. Santosh was told about Hema's death on phone by a stranger & he came back to Calcutta. Santosh admits that he has a mistress for last 10 years, Sukumari (Saavri), whom he visits every weekend as he is not attracted to his wife. Sukumari stays in an apartment arranged for by Santosh & has a phone, whose number no one has except Santosh and Sukumari. Sukumari is a public singer and doesn't want to give up her profession. So, she agrees to stay in Santosh's apartment on every weekend, Saturday and Sunday. So, it's a mystery as to who called Santosh to tell him about Hema's death.
The roof has access via a scaffolding that surrounds the house. The next day Nengti tells Byomkesh that a fire broke out in Hema's room & destroyed everything just in her room. The police had found a bunch of keys on Hema's dead body. One of the keys did not fit any lock in the house. Nengti tells Byomkesh that he used to hear a mouth-organ sound, which was a signal for Hema to exit the house & enter a taxi waiting a little further away, with a man inside. She would return an hour later. This was a monthly routine.
Jugal & Uday both admit that they loved Hema. Uday admits that he followed Hema to the roof on the day of her murder, but he found the roof door locked from outside (the police said that the door was open when they reached the roof). Byomkesh meets Sukumari who confirms that Santosh received a call informing him of Hema's death and he left for home right after. Byomkesh asks Ajit to keep an eye on Ravi. Ajit finds him going to Shahnaz hotel, where people from East Pakistan come & go. The key from Hema's bunch opens the door of one of the rooms at Shahnaz hotel. The manager of the hotel says that the room was rented by a man from Dhaka, who paid for the whole month but only stayed for a few days. The manager says that the room is registered under Umar Shiyazi. Byomkesh finds a book with papers inside the room, along with a mouth organ..
Byomkesh confronts Santosh & says that Santosh used to love Hema's mother. That's why he would visit Dhaka frequently. He even converted to Islam & married Hema's mother & gave half his Calcutta property to her. Hema's mother kept the papers carefully & upon her death passed the papers to Hema. Hema & her lover Umar started blackmailing Santosh & Hema even started staying in Santosh's house. Santosh killed Hema (he entered the roof via the scaffolding) & set fire to her room as he could not find the property papers. Byomkesh found the property papers in Umar's room in Shahnaz hotel.
Ravi knew that Hema is blackmailing Santosh and used to follow her to the hotel. Ravi knew that the property papers are in Hema's hotel room. Ravi also wanted to blackmail Santosh. On that Saturday, Santosh had read the newspaper which carried the news of a plane from Dhaka to Calcutta crashing & the list of passengers. The passenger list had Umar Shiyazi. Santosh figured that 1 blackmailer is gone & this is a golden opportunity to kill the other & remove this problem permanently. Sukumari had cooperated with Santosh in this scheme and corroborated his statement of receiving a phone call of Hema's death. There was no phone call. Santosh commits suicide.
In the house are Ravi Verma (Narendra Gupta) (Santosh's secretary), Chameli (Santosh's wife), Twin boys Uday (Bhuvan Mansodia) and Jugal (Mukesh Ramani), Nengti and Chingri (Pamela Mukherjee) (who work in the house). Santosh is the head of the house & travels on weekends. The death occurred on a Saturday. Santosh & Kamal were friends & Santosh knew Hema since childhood. So, when Kamal died, he gave roof to Hema. Chameli didn't like Hema. Santosh was told about Hema's death on phone by a stranger & he came back to Calcutta. Santosh admits that he has a mistress for last 10 years, Sukumari (Saavri), whom he visits every weekend as he is not attracted to his wife. Sukumari stays in an apartment arranged for by Santosh & has a phone, whose number no one has except Santosh and Sukumari. Sukumari is a public singer and doesn't want to give up her profession. So, she agrees to stay in Santosh's apartment on every weekend, Saturday and Sunday. So, it's a mystery as to who called Santosh to tell him about Hema's death.
The roof has access via a scaffolding that surrounds the house. The next day Nengti tells Byomkesh that a fire broke out in Hema's room & destroyed everything just in her room. The police had found a bunch of keys on Hema's dead body. One of the keys did not fit any lock in the house. Nengti tells Byomkesh that he used to hear a mouth-organ sound, which was a signal for Hema to exit the house & enter a taxi waiting a little further away, with a man inside. She would return an hour later. This was a monthly routine.
Jugal & Uday both admit that they loved Hema. Uday admits that he followed Hema to the roof on the day of her murder, but he found the roof door locked from outside (the police said that the door was open when they reached the roof). Byomkesh meets Sukumari who confirms that Santosh received a call informing him of Hema's death and he left for home right after. Byomkesh asks Ajit to keep an eye on Ravi. Ajit finds him going to Shahnaz hotel, where people from East Pakistan come & go. The key from Hema's bunch opens the door of one of the rooms at Shahnaz hotel. The manager of the hotel says that the room was rented by a man from Dhaka, who paid for the whole month but only stayed for a few days. The manager says that the room is registered under Umar Shiyazi. Byomkesh finds a book with papers inside the room, along with a mouth organ..
Byomkesh confronts Santosh & says that Santosh used to love Hema's mother. That's why he would visit Dhaka frequently. He even converted to Islam & married Hema's mother & gave half his Calcutta property to her. Hema's mother kept the papers carefully & upon her death passed the papers to Hema. Hema & her lover Umar started blackmailing Santosh & Hema even started staying in Santosh's house. Santosh killed Hema (he entered the roof via the scaffolding) & set fire to her room as he could not find the property papers. Byomkesh found the property papers in Umar's room in Shahnaz hotel.
Ravi knew that Hema is blackmailing Santosh and used to follow her to the hotel. Ravi knew that the property papers are in Hema's hotel room. Ravi also wanted to blackmail Santosh. On that Saturday, Santosh had read the newspaper which carried the news of a plane from Dhaka to Calcutta crashing & the list of passengers. The passenger list had Umar Shiyazi. Santosh figured that 1 blackmailer is gone & this is a golden opportunity to kill the other & remove this problem permanently. Sukumari had cooperated with Santosh in this scheme and corroborated his statement of receiving a phone call of Hema's death. There was no phone call. Santosh commits suicide.
Sun, May 16, 1993
Damayanti married Nishanath 10 years ago, when he was 47 while she was only 19. Vijay has been with them since his parents' death 10 years ago. Damayanti states that she slept at 10 pm on the night of Nishanath's death & at that time Nishanath was asleep and alive.
Vijay claims that when he returned from Calcutta that night, he received an anonymous letter that called him to Calcutta & threatened to reveal his secrets if he didn't comply. He went to see who the person was. But no one turned up at the meeting point & Vijay waited till 11 pm before coming back home.
Dr Nepal claims that between 10 pm and 11 pm he was playing chess with Mukul. Panu Gopal wants to say something, but no one can understand him. Dr. Bhujangdhar Das claims he was playing the sitar and Laxmi claims she was sewing clothes & didn't hear any sitar notes. Laxmi claims that she likes Bhujangdhar & wanted to learn sitar from him, but Bhujangdhar wanted sexual favors from her and so she refused.
Panu Gopal is found dead a few days later, poisoned by mixing lethal quantities of nicotine in an ear medicine he used to take. Mukul was the first to find his body as well. Brajadas is found (but he refuses to say why he disappeared after Nishanath's death) & confirms that Bhujangdhar was playing sitar at the night of Nishanath's murder. But he never saw Bhujangdhar. Only heard the sitar sounds. Braja also says that Damayanti is Lal Singh's wife and that she and Nishanath never got married. Vijay was 13 years old back then & Damayanti was 19. Vijay took pity on Damayanti and hid her in Nishanath's bungalow. When Nishanath found out, he scolded Vijay, but allowed Damayanti to stay.
When Byomkesh again confronts Damayanti, she claims that 7 months ago she got a letter from Lal Singh saying that he needed money & every time he threw a motor part in the house, Damayanti was supposed to put Rs 500 on the colony gate between 10 and 11 pm.
On the night of Nishanath's death, there was no motor part, but Damayanti received a last letter saying that Lal Singh was moving to Punjab and wanted to see Damayanti one last time at the colony gate, between 10 and 11 PM. She was at the gate, but no one came. Byomkesh informs Damayanti that Lal Singh died 2 years ago in jail.
Byomkesh gathers everyone in 1 room and says that Vijay told Nishanath's secret (about Damayanti) to Mukul and Lakshmi. Mukul told Dr Nepal and Laxmi told Dr Bhujangdhar (who is Laxmi's real husband). Bhujangdhar and Laxmi were con artists and Bhujangdhar saw the potential to take over the colony. He got Laxmi in, & got Vijay ensnared in Laxmi. Vijay spilled the secrets and Bhujangdhar started blackmailing Damayanti.
When Nishanath involved Byomkesh, Bhujangdhar decided to eliminate Nishanath & removed Damayanti and Vijay from the house with fake letters. The sitar was being played by Laxmi that night, not Bhujangdhar, who entered Nishanath's house and killed him. Panu Gopal had seen him entering the house, so Bhujangdhar killed him as well. Bhujangdhar and Laxmi commit suicide by taking cyanide capsules.
Vijay claims that when he returned from Calcutta that night, he received an anonymous letter that called him to Calcutta & threatened to reveal his secrets if he didn't comply. He went to see who the person was. But no one turned up at the meeting point & Vijay waited till 11 pm before coming back home.
Dr Nepal claims that between 10 pm and 11 pm he was playing chess with Mukul. Panu Gopal wants to say something, but no one can understand him. Dr. Bhujangdhar Das claims he was playing the sitar and Laxmi claims she was sewing clothes & didn't hear any sitar notes. Laxmi claims that she likes Bhujangdhar & wanted to learn sitar from him, but Bhujangdhar wanted sexual favors from her and so she refused.
Panu Gopal is found dead a few days later, poisoned by mixing lethal quantities of nicotine in an ear medicine he used to take. Mukul was the first to find his body as well. Brajadas is found (but he refuses to say why he disappeared after Nishanath's death) & confirms that Bhujangdhar was playing sitar at the night of Nishanath's murder. But he never saw Bhujangdhar. Only heard the sitar sounds. Braja also says that Damayanti is Lal Singh's wife and that she and Nishanath never got married. Vijay was 13 years old back then & Damayanti was 19. Vijay took pity on Damayanti and hid her in Nishanath's bungalow. When Nishanath found out, he scolded Vijay, but allowed Damayanti to stay.
When Byomkesh again confronts Damayanti, she claims that 7 months ago she got a letter from Lal Singh saying that he needed money & every time he threw a motor part in the house, Damayanti was supposed to put Rs 500 on the colony gate between 10 and 11 pm.
On the night of Nishanath's death, there was no motor part, but Damayanti received a last letter saying that Lal Singh was moving to Punjab and wanted to see Damayanti one last time at the colony gate, between 10 and 11 PM. She was at the gate, but no one came. Byomkesh informs Damayanti that Lal Singh died 2 years ago in jail.
Byomkesh gathers everyone in 1 room and says that Vijay told Nishanath's secret (about Damayanti) to Mukul and Lakshmi. Mukul told Dr Nepal and Laxmi told Dr Bhujangdhar (who is Laxmi's real husband). Bhujangdhar and Laxmi were con artists and Bhujangdhar saw the potential to take over the colony. He got Laxmi in, & got Vijay ensnared in Laxmi. Vijay spilled the secrets and Bhujangdhar started blackmailing Damayanti.
When Nishanath involved Byomkesh, Bhujangdhar decided to eliminate Nishanath & removed Damayanti and Vijay from the house with fake letters. The sitar was being played by Laxmi that night, not Bhujangdhar, who entered Nishanath's house and killed him. Panu Gopal had seen him entering the house, so Bhujangdhar killed him as well. Bhujangdhar and Laxmi commit suicide by taking cyanide capsules.
1997
Calcutta, 1960. An old friend of Byomkesh, Rameshwar Babu (Shail Chaturvedi) writes a letter to Byomkesh saying that he is getting old & has written a will. He wants Byomkesh to be the executioner of the will upon his death. Rameshwar has 2 kids, a dumb boy Kusheshwar (Raghu Mulwal) (married to a cruel girl Lavanya (Nivedita Tijoriwala)) and girl Nalini. Rameshwar's 2nd wife is sick & childless.
Byomkesh finds the letter a bit strange since Rameshwar is a very lively and jolly personality, yet his letter is very serious and religious in tone. Rameshwar can carry an entire party on his own, with his magnetic personality and witty jokes.
Plus, he talks about making sure that Byomkesh gets Rs 5000, which Byomkesh doesn't understand at all. He feels Rameshwar has gone senile with age.
Byomkesh goes to Rameshwar's home & learns that he has had a heart attack overnight. He is not allowed to meet Rameshwar by Kusheshwar and Lavanya. Byomkesh meets the treating doctor Aseem Sen (P.K. Mukherji). Dr Aseem is a heart specialist. He says that Rameshwar is stable now, but his long-term life is unpredictable. He can live for a few years or can die if he has yet another heart attack. Aseem says that Nalini had married a boy of her choice, against family wishes. While Rameshwar has forgiven her, Lavanya has not. Lavanya does not allow Nalini into the house or to meet Rameshwar. Rameshwar's wife Kubudni is mentally unstable and plays with toys. Lavanya effectively manages the house. Aseem suspects that Rameshwar has made a will and is also sure that he wants to leave something for Nalini. Aseem says that Rameshwar himself told him that when he went to treat him the previous night. Without a will only Kubudni and Kusheshwar get the property, and nothing for Nalini.
Nalini is married to a middle-class man named Devnath and has 5 kids. A few days later Rameshwar has another heart attack & dies in Dr Aseem's presence. Nalini meets Byomkesh and confirms that Rameshwar had left a will, but the location is unknown as Lavanya never left Rameshwar alone. Lavanya even checked Rameshwar's correspondence and destroyed any letters that she did not like. Byomkesh knows that a will does not require witnesses, if it is written from start to finish by the testator.
Byomkesh gets Dr Aseem to order a search of the house to look for clues that Rameshwar was poisoned. The real purpose is to find the missing will. Lavanya is livid & calls the family lawyer. Their game plan is to get Kusheshwar & Kubudni to get equal share of the fortune. Then declare Kubudni mentally ill & transfer all the fortune to Kusheshwar.
Byomkesh finds the scent of raw onion in Rameshwar's room. He is told by Lavanya that Rameshwar had an urge to eat raw onions from about 15 days prior to his death. Byomkesh realizes that the will is written on the letter that Rameshwar wrote to Byomkesh, with camouflage onion ink. This way the will would never be visible to Lavanya and will reach Byomkesh, which it did.
In the will Rameshwar gives part of his property to Nalini and declares that the property allocated to his wife will also go to Nalini upon her death. He allots Rs 5000 each to Byomkesh and Aseem for their services to his family
Byomkesh goes to Rameshwar's home & learns that he has had a heart attack overnight. He is not allowed to meet Rameshwar by Kusheshwar and Lavanya. Byomkesh meets the treating doctor Aseem Sen (P.K. Mukherji). Dr Aseem is a heart specialist. He says that Rameshwar is stable now, but his long-term life is unpredictable. He can live for a few years or can die if he has yet another heart attack. Aseem says that Nalini had married a boy of her choice, against family wishes. While Rameshwar has forgiven her, Lavanya has not. Lavanya does not allow Nalini into the house or to meet Rameshwar. Rameshwar's wife Kubudni is mentally unstable and plays with toys. Lavanya effectively manages the house. Aseem suspects that Rameshwar has made a will and is also sure that he wants to leave something for Nalini. Aseem says that Rameshwar himself told him that when he went to treat him the previous night. Without a will only Kubudni and Kusheshwar get the property, and nothing for Nalini.
Nalini is married to a middle-class man named Devnath and has 5 kids. A few days later Rameshwar has another heart attack & dies in Dr Aseem's presence. Nalini meets Byomkesh and confirms that Rameshwar had left a will, but the location is unknown as Lavanya never left Rameshwar alone. Lavanya even checked Rameshwar's correspondence and destroyed any letters that she did not like. Byomkesh knows that a will does not require witnesses, if it is written from start to finish by the testator.
Byomkesh gets Dr Aseem to order a search of the house to look for clues that Rameshwar was poisoned. The real purpose is to find the missing will. Lavanya is livid & calls the family lawyer. Their game plan is to get Kusheshwar & Kubudni to get equal share of the fortune. Then declare Kubudni mentally ill & transfer all the fortune to Kusheshwar.
Byomkesh finds the scent of raw onion in Rameshwar's room. He is told by Lavanya that Rameshwar had an urge to eat raw onions from about 15 days prior to his death. Byomkesh realizes that the will is written on the letter that Rameshwar wrote to Byomkesh, with camouflage onion ink. This way the will would never be visible to Lavanya and will reach Byomkesh, which it did.
In the will Rameshwar gives part of his property to Nalini and declares that the property allocated to his wife will also go to Nalini upon her death. He allots Rs 5000 each to Byomkesh and Aseem for their services to his family
Sun, Mar 14, 1993
Calcutta 1935. Karali Babu is a rich man with multiple properties in Calcutta and has been murdered. He was a bachelor and lived in his house with 3 nephews Makhanlal (Tushar Majumdar), Motilal (Asit Banerjee) and Chunnilal (Rakesh Sahu), & 2 children of his brother Sukumar (Naved Aslam) and Satyavati (Sukanya Kulkarni). Karali was temperamental and used to change wills frequently from Makhan, to Moti to finally Sukumar.
Moti is absconding since Karali's murder. The day before the murder, Moti was heard fighting with Karali regarding the new will.
Karali was murdered by inserting a fine pin in a delicate part of his neck, just below the Medulla Oblongata. The house servant saw Moti leaving the house just past mid night and Sukumar entering the house after about 15 mins. Byomkesh finds 3 pin holes in Karali's neck. Byomkesh meets Chunnilal, who feels that Sukumar is a deserving candidate for the wealth as he is educated and will become doctor. Chunnilal is now dependent on Sukumar's good graces to stay further in Karali's property. Chunnilal says that it is pointless to suspect Moti as all 3 brothers were removed from the will at one point or another.
Sukumar claims that he was returning from cinema that night. He also claims that earlier in the day, he was trying to convince Karali to divide the wealth equally amongst brothers. Satyavati claims that she took the morning tea to Karali & discovered his dead body. Byomkesh tries hard to ask if this was the first time Satyavati saw Karali dead, but Satyavati sticks to her story. Byomkesh finds the crochet of Satyavati, but finds the needle is missing.
Byomkesh speculates that the dark spots on Karali's nose were due to chloroform administered to prevent him from screaming. There were 3 pin holes, as the killer couldn't find the right spot in the first 2 attempts.
On Sukumar's desk Byomkesh finds a book in which he has underlined the medulla attack strategy with red pencil. But no red pencil is found in his desk. He finds chloroform in Sukumar's closet, which was used to sedate Karali, so that he doesn't scream when attacked with needles. Motilal is caught the next morning & claims that he was out drunk & sleeping. Byomkesh also finds another will in Sukumar's luggage, dated to the day of Karali's murder & made to Chunnilal.
Police is about to arrest Sukumar when Byomkesh again speak to Satyavati who confirms that Sukumar left the house around 9 to watch a movie. At 10 30 she heard noises in Sukumar's room, as if someone was moving around heavy boxes. She went in a few minutes later in Karali's room to find a needle stuck in his neck. Satyawati tells Byomkesh that Chunnilal was very interested in studies. Byomkesh studies the will made to Chunnilal and finds that there are no witness signatures on the same.
Byomkesh finds that Chunnilal is in habit of borrowing Sukumar's medical books and has a red pencil as well. Byomkesh confronts Chunnilal, who goes pale and asks for 1/2 hr. He commits suicide and leaves a note professing his love for Satyavati. Byomkesh reveals that Chunnilal murdered Karali after Moti left the house shortly before midnight. He has taken the needle from Satyavati's crochet earlier. The Chunnilal took the last will from Karali's closet. He hid the chloroform bottle and the last will made to Chunnilal in Sukumar's room, to point the needle of suspicion firmly at Sukumar. Byomkesh starts dating Satyavati.
Karali was murdered by inserting a fine pin in a delicate part of his neck, just below the Medulla Oblongata. The house servant saw Moti leaving the house just past mid night and Sukumar entering the house after about 15 mins. Byomkesh finds 3 pin holes in Karali's neck. Byomkesh meets Chunnilal, who feels that Sukumar is a deserving candidate for the wealth as he is educated and will become doctor. Chunnilal is now dependent on Sukumar's good graces to stay further in Karali's property. Chunnilal says that it is pointless to suspect Moti as all 3 brothers were removed from the will at one point or another.
Sukumar claims that he was returning from cinema that night. He also claims that earlier in the day, he was trying to convince Karali to divide the wealth equally amongst brothers. Satyavati claims that she took the morning tea to Karali & discovered his dead body. Byomkesh tries hard to ask if this was the first time Satyavati saw Karali dead, but Satyavati sticks to her story. Byomkesh finds the crochet of Satyavati, but finds the needle is missing.
Byomkesh speculates that the dark spots on Karali's nose were due to chloroform administered to prevent him from screaming. There were 3 pin holes, as the killer couldn't find the right spot in the first 2 attempts.
On Sukumar's desk Byomkesh finds a book in which he has underlined the medulla attack strategy with red pencil. But no red pencil is found in his desk. He finds chloroform in Sukumar's closet, which was used to sedate Karali, so that he doesn't scream when attacked with needles. Motilal is caught the next morning & claims that he was out drunk & sleeping. Byomkesh also finds another will in Sukumar's luggage, dated to the day of Karali's murder & made to Chunnilal.
Police is about to arrest Sukumar when Byomkesh again speak to Satyavati who confirms that Sukumar left the house around 9 to watch a movie. At 10 30 she heard noises in Sukumar's room, as if someone was moving around heavy boxes. She went in a few minutes later in Karali's room to find a needle stuck in his neck. Satyawati tells Byomkesh that Chunnilal was very interested in studies. Byomkesh studies the will made to Chunnilal and finds that there are no witness signatures on the same.
Byomkesh finds that Chunnilal is in habit of borrowing Sukumar's medical books and has a red pencil as well. Byomkesh confronts Chunnilal, who goes pale and asks for 1/2 hr. He commits suicide and leaves a note professing his love for Satyavati. Byomkesh reveals that Chunnilal murdered Karali after Moti left the house shortly before midnight. He has taken the needle from Satyavati's crochet earlier. The Chunnilal took the last will from Karali's closet. He hid the chloroform bottle and the last will made to Chunnilal in Sukumar's room, to point the needle of suspicion firmly at Sukumar. Byomkesh starts dating Satyavati.
Sun, Apr 11, 1993
In Agnivaan, a family witnesses a mysterious death and no method of murder is found. Unless there is a confirmation on the method of murder, motive cannot be deduced clearly. Byomkesh, with his friend Ajit, uncover the motive and solve this intriguing mystery. The professor, his wife and kids are in the middle of a killing spree.
Sun, May 9, 1993
Calcutta, 1953. A retired judge Nishanath (Vijayan V. Nair) calls Byomkesh to solve the mystery of someone throwing car parts into his house through his window. Byomkesh finds that 12 years ago the judge had sentenced Lal Singh to death for a crime. Lal Singh had a motor garage. He appealed in high court & got 14 years in jail. He might have gotten out early due to good behavior.
The judge lives with his wife Damayanti (Sangeetha Balachandran) and nephew Vijay (Ninad Deshpande) (who has a flower shop in town). In his locality are Panu Gopal (R.D. Shome) (a mute, who cares for livestock & hears loud), Prof Nepal Gupta (Shreechand Makhija) & daughter Mukul (Prabha Mathur). Professor had a chemistry lab that was destroyed in an explosion. He was suspected of making a bomb which led to his firing & subsequent police investigations. Prof Nepal still runs a mini lab in his house & claims to be making fertilizers (that don't work).
Brajadas (Govind Dharmadhikari) is a priest and an animal doctor. He was a court clerk but was dismissed for corruption. Nishanath was the one who sentenced Brij for 6 years in jail. Dr. Bhujangdhar Das (Yusuf Khurram) also stays in the vicinity & plays Sitar and has been staying for over 4 years. Laxmi (Prateeksha Lonkar) is the tailor for the colony, Laxmi was lured by a fraud from her village and abandoned in Calcutta, she joined the colony 2 years ago.
Prof Nepal is not happy that animals are left in the care of a novice such as Brajadas. He wants the judge to put them in his care, as he is also a biochemist. This hurts Braja's feelings. Judge stops Nepal & asks him to leave Braja alone, or he will have to leave the colony. Nepal is very upset and threatens to reveal "everything".
Bhujangdhar was married to a white girl, who left him and Bhujangdhar had to come back to India. His doctor's license was suspended when he conducted an illegal abortion to save a young woman from society's shame and insults. Bhujangdhar also says that Nepal wants to become the head of the colony and hence if trying to scare Nishanath away with the motor parts stunt. He also alleges that Damayanti has feelings for Prof Nepal. Byomkesh talks to Vijay, who gets all flustered when he asks about Mukul. In the whole story only Mukul's past is unknown yet.
Byomkesh receives a letter from Nishanath, that tells him to stop investigating further. But simultaneously receives a call from police that Nishanath has died. Dr Nagendra Pal (Ajay Wadhavkar) is called to conduct the preliminary investigation into Nishanath's cause of death. His dead body still had warm socks on it, while Nishanath supposedly died in bed in hot summer season. He was a long-term BP patient as well. Death occurred between 10 and 11 PM & no signs of external injuries. Probable cause of death is brain hemorrhage.
The doctor does say that BP will rise if wearing warm socks in summer. Also, when socks are removed, body marks indicate that Nishanath had been restrained with ropes in the legs. A broken bird's nest is found under the bed, with the remainder on top of the ceiling fan. Byomkesh theorizes that Nishanath was hung upside down with ropes tied to legs from the room ceiling. He died when his brain nerves burst due to the extra pressure. Then while moving him down, the bird nest on the fan broke & the killer forgot to remove the socks. Nishanath was knocked unconscious before being subjected to this torture. Byomkesh wonders why Damayanti didn't hear anything as she was in the room right next to Nishanath. Vijay and Damayanti are equal beneficiaries of Nishakanth's wealth.
Vijay had come home from Calcutta on the day of the death but had left again for Calcutta and returned at 12:30 am & gone to sleep. Mukul heard Damayanti scream in the morning & that's how the colony knew about the death. Byomkesh talks to Nepal, who says that Mukul wanted to marry Vijay, who initially agreed, but then got mixed with some lose character girl (he meant Laxmi) and forgot Mukul. Byomkesh also inquires that Lal Singh died in prison. He had a wife, who is untraceable. Brajadas is missing since Nishanath's death.
The judge lives with his wife Damayanti (Sangeetha Balachandran) and nephew Vijay (Ninad Deshpande) (who has a flower shop in town). In his locality are Panu Gopal (R.D. Shome) (a mute, who cares for livestock & hears loud), Prof Nepal Gupta (Shreechand Makhija) & daughter Mukul (Prabha Mathur). Professor had a chemistry lab that was destroyed in an explosion. He was suspected of making a bomb which led to his firing & subsequent police investigations. Prof Nepal still runs a mini lab in his house & claims to be making fertilizers (that don't work).
Brajadas (Govind Dharmadhikari) is a priest and an animal doctor. He was a court clerk but was dismissed for corruption. Nishanath was the one who sentenced Brij for 6 years in jail. Dr. Bhujangdhar Das (Yusuf Khurram) also stays in the vicinity & plays Sitar and has been staying for over 4 years. Laxmi (Prateeksha Lonkar) is the tailor for the colony, Laxmi was lured by a fraud from her village and abandoned in Calcutta, she joined the colony 2 years ago.
Prof Nepal is not happy that animals are left in the care of a novice such as Brajadas. He wants the judge to put them in his care, as he is also a biochemist. This hurts Braja's feelings. Judge stops Nepal & asks him to leave Braja alone, or he will have to leave the colony. Nepal is very upset and threatens to reveal "everything".
Bhujangdhar was married to a white girl, who left him and Bhujangdhar had to come back to India. His doctor's license was suspended when he conducted an illegal abortion to save a young woman from society's shame and insults. Bhujangdhar also says that Nepal wants to become the head of the colony and hence if trying to scare Nishanath away with the motor parts stunt. He also alleges that Damayanti has feelings for Prof Nepal. Byomkesh talks to Vijay, who gets all flustered when he asks about Mukul. In the whole story only Mukul's past is unknown yet.
Byomkesh receives a letter from Nishanath, that tells him to stop investigating further. But simultaneously receives a call from police that Nishanath has died. Dr Nagendra Pal (Ajay Wadhavkar) is called to conduct the preliminary investigation into Nishanath's cause of death. His dead body still had warm socks on it, while Nishanath supposedly died in bed in hot summer season. He was a long-term BP patient as well. Death occurred between 10 and 11 PM & no signs of external injuries. Probable cause of death is brain hemorrhage.
The doctor does say that BP will rise if wearing warm socks in summer. Also, when socks are removed, body marks indicate that Nishanath had been restrained with ropes in the legs. A broken bird's nest is found under the bed, with the remainder on top of the ceiling fan. Byomkesh theorizes that Nishanath was hung upside down with ropes tied to legs from the room ceiling. He died when his brain nerves burst due to the extra pressure. Then while moving him down, the bird nest on the fan broke & the killer forgot to remove the socks. Nishanath was knocked unconscious before being subjected to this torture. Byomkesh wonders why Damayanti didn't hear anything as she was in the room right next to Nishanath. Vijay and Damayanti are equal beneficiaries of Nishakanth's wealth.
Vijay had come home from Calcutta on the day of the death but had left again for Calcutta and returned at 12:30 am & gone to sleep. Mukul heard Damayanti scream in the morning & that's how the colony knew about the death. Byomkesh talks to Nepal, who says that Mukul wanted to marry Vijay, who initially agreed, but then got mixed with some lose character girl (he meant Laxmi) and forgot Mukul. Byomkesh also inquires that Lal Singh died in prison. He had a wife, who is untraceable. Brajadas is missing since Nishanath's death.