excerpts

Jatayu: (walkiing along Marine Drive in Bombay) "I am sure there is no Municipal Development Authority here, as in Calcutta." "Why, because the roads have no potholes?" from Bombaiyer Bombetey : The Buccaneer of Bombay

Feluda:"I discovered today that those two cuttings in his wallet were cut out with a blade from newspapers nearly two centuries old which have been carefully preserved in the National Library Reading room. In my opinion, a man should go to prison for this." from Gorosthaney Shabdhan : Trouble in the Graveyard

"It should take an hour-and-a-half to build up the story, and another hour-and-a-half to unravel it.[...]You must have smuggling, gold, diamons, marijuana, hashish, whatever; five songs, one of which should be devotional; two dance numbers; two or three chase sequences -- in at least one of which an expensive car should be seen rolling downhill; there must be one fire scene; the girlfriend of the hero must be the heroine and the girlfriend of the villain has to be the vamp; you need a conscientous police officer; some flashback scenes for the hero; comic relief and fast action so that the plot does not sag; if you can, shift the scene to the mountains or to the beach so that your stars don't have to keep on shooting in the cramped atmosphere of a studio. [..] And finally -- this is a must -- you have to have a happy ending. And if before that you can make the tears flow, then so much the better." from: Bombaiyer Bombetey