![]() ![]() Wheelers stands found at the railway stations. The era of such ‘Jasoosi Novels’ which began in 1940s with Ibne Safi became a flourishing business from 1960s onwards, majorly operated from the city of Meerut, distributed by the A. These are the writers whose works were and are still largely published in a cheap paper material (known as ‘Lugdi Sahitya’) with glossy hand-painted covers (focusing on blood, girls and guns) having some catchy suspense titles. ![]() ![]() However, what still remains widely ignored by filmmakers as their subject for suspense-based detective films are the Hindi pulp fiction writers and their respective characters having a huge fan following among the Hindi readership belt in pan India. Carvalho’, ‘Samrat & Co.’, ‘Bobby Jasoos’, ‘Detective Byomkesh Bakshy’ or the upcoming ‘Jagga Jasoos’. Plus projects focusing on individual detectives (and not spies) have always been offered to the Hindi film audience in the past beginning from ‘CID’, ‘Inspector Eagle’, ‘Gopichand’ ‘Jasoos, Do Jasoos’, ‘Baadshah’ and many more reaching the currently followed trend (possibly, post the unexpected success of ‘Kahaani’) seen in ‘Mr. Novels of Arthur Conan Doyle and Agatha Christie have been the basis of many famous Hindi classics of the golden era such as Bees Saal Baad, Gumnam and more. ![]()
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