91Èȱ¬

Drawn by the extravagant claims of a mysterious holy man who's swum 200 miles up the Ganges - Bengali sleuth, Feluda visits Benares, during the festival of Durga.

His detective skills are needed when a valuable statuette of Ganesh is stolen from a famous household. Could the holy man, or even arch enemy Meganlal Meghraj, be connected to the crime? Feluda, assisted by Topshe and Lalmohan, set out to unravel the puzzle......

Satyajit Ray's adventure for the Bengali sleuth dramatised by Ray Grewal.

Feluda (Prodosh Mitter) …. Rahul Bose
Lalmohan Ganguly …. Anupam Kher
Meganlal Meghraj …. Dalip Tahil
Topshe …. Hari Balasubramaniam
Machchli Baba …. Jackie Shroff
Umanath Ghoshal …. Anang Desai
Abhaycharan …. Ameen Sayani
Vikas …. Arghiya Lahiri
Inspector Tiwari …. Shahrookh Irani
Niranjan …. Atul Tiwari
Shashi …. Sumantra Ghosal
Ruku …. Hormuz Dadabhoy
Suraj …. Varun Murali

Specially recorded in Mumbai, India.

Director: Anne Edyvean

First broadcast on 91Èȱ¬ Radio 4 in September 2007.