‘Shekhar Home’: How Kay Kay Menon brought Sherlock Holmes home
The JioCinema series stars Kay Kay Menon as a Bengali version of the iconic British detective.
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Kay Kay Menon has taken time out from a hush-hush shoot for a conversation about his latest project. Non-dic clauses prevent the actor from revealing what he is working on next, but given his calibre, it is likely to be noteworthy.
Menon’s new series, Shekhar Home, revolves around matters of the clandestine too. The JioCinema show sees Menon as a Bengali version of Arthur Conan Doyle’s world-renowned sleuth Sherlock Holmes.
The Hindi-language comedy is an official re-reimagining of the Holmes stories that are in the public domain. In the fictitious town Lonpur, Shekhar and his associate Jayvrat (Ranvir Shorey) solves minor crimes alongside attempting to foil a major dastardly plot. The cast includes Shernaz Patel, Kaushik Sen, Rasika Dugal, Kirti Kulhari and Rudranil Ghosh.
Shekhar Home turned up quite suddenly on the streaming calendar. Created by Aniruddha Guha and Sriijit Mukherji and directed by Mukherji and Rohan Sippy, the show will be premiered on JioCinema on August 14.
Few actors would resist the opportunity to play the iconic investigator. Yet, Menon briefly hesitated. “I had read Arthur Conan Doyle and I...
