Bombaiyer Bombete (film)

Bombaiyer Bombete (film)
DVD cover of Bombaiyer Bombete
Directed by	Sandip Ray
Written by	Satyajit Ray
Produced by	Ushakiran Movies D. Rama Naidu
Starring	Sabyasachi Chakrabarty Parambrata Chatterjee Bibhu Bhattacharya Ashish Vidyarthi Rajatabha Dutta Rajesh Sharma
Music by	Sandip Ray
Release date	12 December 2003 (2003-12-12)
Running time	115 minutes
Country	India
Language	Bengali
Budget	Rs 80 lakhs
Box office	Rs 2.0 crores

Bombaiyer Bombete (Bengali: বোম্বাইয়ের বোম্বেটে, lit. The Bandits of Bombay) is a 2003 Indian Bengali thriller film directed by Sandip Ray and based on the story of the same name by his father Satyajit Ray. It was the third big screen adaptation of the fictional detective character Feluda after 25 years of the second Feluda movie Joi Baba Felunath (1979), which was directed by Satyajit Ray. It was the first big screen adaptation of the Feluda new film series (Continuation of the original series) though Sabyasachi played Feluda in all the ten TV films of Feluda TV film series (1996-2000) directed by Sandip Ray. The movie was a sequel to the Doctor Munshir Diary, the last television film of Feluda TV film series (1996-2000), which was a sequel series to the Satyajit Ray's Feluda film series (1974-1979).

Previously, Feluda was played by Soumitra Chatterjee in two films Sonar Kella (1974) and Joi Baba Felunath (1979), directed by Satyajit Ray. First of the Feluda TV film series, Baksho Rahashya (1996) in which Sabyasachi Chakrabarty starred as Feluda for the first time, was released in theaters before releasing this movie in 2001. Bombaiyer Bombete was the eleventh film of Sabyasachi Chakrabarty as Feluda. After the huge success of Bombaiyer Bombete, four sequels have been made till 2011. They are Kailashey Kelenkari (2007), Tintorettor Jishu (2008), Gorosthaney Sabdhan (2010) and Royal Bengal Rohosso (2011). A fifth sequel, titled Double Feluda, released in 2016.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}