He is doing comic strips of Satyajit Ray’s detective stories, the Feluda series.
The artwork is attractive, Guha admits that he has been careful to recreate the handsome detective. “All our heroes are good-looking and Ray did make Feluda a very handsome man. I’ve been inspired by Herge’s Tintin, the panels are clean, the page is neat and comes alive,” says Guha.
“I tried to make illustrations colourful, smart and uncluttered. The style was absolutely mine. The figures were contemporary and I made the detective look young,” he says.
Sneak peak In A Bagful of Mystery, Feluda’s client Dinanath Lahiri is on a train from Delhi to Kolkata when he finds that someone has taken his bag and replaced it with an identical one.
Behind this seemingly simple misplacement lies a maze of mysterious questions and a shadowy criminal in ambush.
A sudden violent storm takes Kolkata by surprise, in Beware in the Graveyard.
It leaves Narendra Nath Biswas injured when a tree that collapses on him in the Park Street Cemetery hits him. Feluda starts his investigation and digs up the fascinating history of the Godwin family, dating back to nineteenth-century Lucknow, to discover Thomas Godwin’s precious heirloom.
Who is Feluda? Pradosh Chandra Mitter or Feluda is a 30-something professional detective who likes solving curious cases.
He lives at 27, Rajani Sen Road, a middle-class suburb in Southern Calcutta.
His cousin Topshe plays Watson to this Bong Sherlock Holmes.
Lalmohan Ganguli, a friend, usually accompanies them when they go crime solving.