Abir Chatterjee returns as Byomkesh with Arindam Sil's Byomkesh Hotyamancha after four years, trailer out now

The trailer of Byomkesh Hotyamancha was unveiled by SVF, Sil and the cast at Lake Mall here Wednesday.

The film's story, which is inspired from an incomplete Byomkesh story by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay, Bishupal Bodh, has been further written and completed for the film by Sil and writer Padmanabha Dasgupta.

The trailer starts off showing tumultuous Naxalite uprising Bengal of 1971, Byomkesh Bakshi gets involved in a story of vengeance when he decides to attend a play at the theatre and becomes witness to a crime unfolding on the center stage.

Speaking to India Blooms on coming back as Byomkesh after four years, Abir said, "I guess people have been patiently waiting for Byomkesh to come back on screen. So our responsibility is even more. I hope people will appreciate this film."

Abir, a popular Bengali actor who has ventured into other industries as well, was onscreen Byomkesh in Sil's first three installments as well.

The other three films are Har Har Byomkesh (2015), Byomkesh Pawrbo (2016) and Byomkesh Gotro (2018).

Expressing his gratitude to the franchise for his personal growth, the actor said, "I will never deny that my journey started with Byomkesh. I started to get love from people playing this character. Going by statistics, this is my 13th year with Byomkesh!"

"Since it's coming after a gap of four years, I want to ensure that people love it and feel the film was worth waiting for," he added.

Along with Abir, Byomkesh Hatyamancha stars Sohini Sarkar, Paoli Dam, Suhorta Mukhopadhyay in the lead.

Playing Byomkesh's confidant Ajit, Suhorta says, "It feels great to be a part of such a huge project and playing the role of Ajit is a dream come true.

"Byomkesh is a cult character be it in novels or big screen, and sharing the screen with Abir da under the guidance of Arindam-da was thoroughly a great learning process."

Playing Satyabati for the fourth time on screen, Sohini says, "There was no challenge in playing the role in this film. It's just an opportunity to explore myself as an actor."

Sil, extremely positive about his fourth directorial, said, "This fourth Byomkesh directorial was altogether a different equation to solve. The additional details which were put in an already monumental inscription were very minutely thought.

"Anticipating the audience will shower the same appreciation that we received in my previous Byomkesh films."

The film is slated for Aug 11 release.