NEW DELHI: At a time when a feature film has just been made on the subject, Doordarshan is re-telecasting the popular series Byomkesh Bakshi, which was made more than twenty years earlier in 1993.

The series is being telecast on DD's cultural channel DD Bharati.

It was the first Hindi series based on the Byomkesh Bakshi character created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay. The series was made over two seasons, a 14-episode series in 1993 and a twenty-part series in 1997.  The series achieved cult status and was even repeated several times on DD National.

The series stars Rajit Kapur and K K Raina as Byomkesh Bakshi and Ajit Bandyopadhyay respectively. Both actors known for their stage experience also went on to act in many films later.

The series was directed by one of the masters of art cinema in the seventies and eighties, Basu Chatterjee.

Byomkesh Bakshi, a Bengali detective takes on spine-chilling cases with his sidekick Ajit Bandyopadhyay. 

The series will be aired every Friday at 10 pm on DD Bharati.