India, Aug. 26 -- "Let him rest for a while," filmmaker Sandip Ray says in a lighter vein when asked about another screen outing of Bengal's favourite sleuth, Feluda.

Perhaps sensing that audiences risk fatigue with "too much Feluda," Sandip Ray, speaking to this correspondent, seems intent on preserving the detective's mystique-for now.

Feluda, or Pradosh Chandra Mitter, was created in 1965 by India's foremost filmmaker and Oscar awardee late Satyajit Ray in the Bengali children's magazine Sandesh.

Since then, the cerebral detective has enthralled generations, aided by his cousin Topshe and the inimitable Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu.

The cinematic journey began in 1974 with Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress), where Soumitra Chatter...