Professor Shonku : Fictional Character of Great Scientist Created By Great Satyajit Ray

Professor Shonku : Animated Clipert

Satyajit Ray : Professor Shonku (Creator and Character)

Professor Shonku:

Professor Shonku is the fictional Character which was created by Satyajit Ray. Shonku is the great Scientist and  inventor of many things, Satyajit Ray`s first Novel on Shonku Was "Byomjatrir Diary" where  detail Description of  Shonku`s  Mars Planet adventure was written, With his Robot "Bidhushekar" and Cat "Newton" on his self made Rocket. Other Science Fiction stories on Shonku is written in regular Dairy Form.

Satyajit Ray was a multifaceted and Multitalented person therefore besides Film-making , he gathered vast knowledge on various scientific subjects which were was adopted by him as a references  on his various Stories and Novels. His Sciencetific curiosity and Vast knowledge on different subjects inspired him for this Fictional Character Professor Shonku.

The real name of Professor Shonku is Trilokeshwar Shonku. He lives in Giridih beside the river Usri. He has a male-servant named Prahllad and a cat named Newton living in the house. In his story "The Astronaut's Diary" (Byomjatrir diary) Ray introduced Professor Shonku.

Professor Shonku with His Robot BidhuShekhar  With  Annihillin Gun and Pet cat Newton in his Lab

Other frequent characters within Professor Shonku`s Stories:

Professor Shonku in his House withn  Abinash babu, Nakur Chandra Biswas ,Pet cat Newton and Servant  Prohlad

Abinash Majumdar (Abinash babu) – the completely non-scientific neighbor and friend who never understands the magnitude of Shonku's scientific breakthroughs and often finds them humiliating or amusing or insignificant.

Nakur Chandra Biswas — the man with supernatural power of predicting the future which he had from a ball lightning incident.He lives in Makarda.

Jeremy Saunders — the British scientist residing in London (as mentioned in Shornoporni).

Wilhelm Krol — German scientist with interests on paranormal activities — quite unmindful (as described in Ekshringo Abhijan).

Prohlad — Shonku's trusted servant and housekeeper for a long time.

Newton- Shonku's long time pet cat.

Professor Shonku`s   Adventures:

First Book on Professor Shonku where story Byomjatrir diary included

Professor Shonku o Khoka  : Included in First Book :

A child who otherwise used to be normal, has "changed" after he fell and hurt his head. Once happy and normal, this child has become melancholy and speaks things which the parents do not follow and term as gibberish. The parents desperately seek help to get their boy back. A doctor finally suggests to see Shonku. Although initially Shonku was reluctant to see this boy as practicing medicines is not his profession — after he sees the boy it soon becomes obvious that this is indeed an extraordinary case worthy of his attention. What appeared as gibberish to his parents were actually meaningful facts which should normally be well beyond his or many other peoples reach, spoken in many different languages which the child had no way to learn. He also demonstrates psychic ability, where the flash of a camera stops working after he declares he doesn't want to be pictured but the reporter insists. Although the child seems to be omniscient, he appears sad and detached from the material world. The story ends when the child concocts a potion by mixing several very dangerous chemicals and acids, some of which were Shonku's own inventions, and gulps it down before Shonku had a chance to stop him. A short period of unconsciousness follows, after which the child wakes up as his normal old self. He then makes friends with Shonku, states he has no memory of things which happened in the last few days, and even asks for chocolates.

Professor Shonku o Har:

Professor Shonku o Har  in Comics

Professor Shonku meets a fakir who has this ability to re-animate a living thing from its bones. Shonku tries to investigate, which enrages the fakir and the causes him to curse Shonku. Later in his life, Shonku discovers the remains of a dinosaur in a cave along with an assistant. The curse starts to take effect and the dinosaur comes back to life.

Professor Shonku o Golok Rahasya: Included in First Book

Shonku gets hold of a mysterious sphere which changes its color spontaneously and emanates various sounds. In fact, the sphere is a planet from another solar system and it has brought extraterrestrial life along.

Swapnadwip:

The Professor is haunted by a repeating dream where he along, with his friends, are stranded on a beautiful exotic island without any inhabitants. His friends also experience the same dream. It is as if the mysterious island is beckoning great scientists of the world to it.

Ek Shringo Abhijan:

Ek Shringo Abhijan : Shonku Comics

Shonku goes to Tibet, to find out about a Unicorn which is reported to be seen there. In the adventure, Shonku discovers a place where everybody's dreams come true... a Utopia.

Shonku Ekay Eksho : Story Book

Mahakasher doot: included in Shonku Ekay Eksho book:

Shonku tries to prove that human civilization has prospered thanks to the help of some alien civilisation that comes to Earth every 5000 years and teaches them something extraordinary. What are they going to reveal this time?

Nakurbabau o El Dorado:included in Shonku Ekay Eksho book:

Nokurbabu has the ability to make others see what he is thinking. He and Shonku are caught in a chain of events that lead them to the deep jungles of South America where El Dorado has always eluded discovery.

Professor Shonku o UFO: included in Shonku Ekay Eksho book:

Several sightings of UFOs makes headlines worldwide. However, this news is outdone by the news of the demolition of some of the greatest monuments of mankind. The Eiffel Tower and the Angkor Wat are destroyed, and the aliens are blamed. Nokurbabu joins Shonku and other scientists who discover that the UFO has its base in the Gobi desert. They find the UFO and go aboard. They are captured immediately, not by the aliens, but by a mad scientist who is the present owner of the UFO and who is in fact the destroyer of the monuments, driven because he was denied his due honour in the scientific community. His next target is the Taj Mahal.

Swarnaparnee:

This is the story of a young Shonku when he visited Germany on the eve of World War II. A fascinating story about how Shonku went on to meet Hermann Göring and finally evaded the Nazis.

Inventions of Professor Shonku:

Professor Shonkur Kandokarkhana : Story Book

Miracurall – A drug capsule (also in ointment form) that cures any ailment except common cold, the name is a short form of Miracle Cure for All Ailments.

Annihillin – A pistol capable of annihilating (vanishing or vapourizing) anything that is living.... invented because Shonku does not like bloodshed It does not work on non living things (according to Shonku'r Congo Abhijan).

Shankoplane – A small hovercraft created using anti-gravity technology, capable of vertical take-off and landing and magnificent mileage.

Shankovite – The anti-gravity alloy by which Shankoplane was made.

Omniscope – A combination of telescope and microscope, which looks like and can be worn as spectacles.

Sayang Professor Shonku : Story Book

Air-conditioning pill – A capsule to be kept in shirt pocket, that keeps the body temperature normal in extremes of climate.

Somnolin – A sleeping pill that will work in any condition.

Evolutin – A drug that makes people evolve 10 thousand years in 5 minutes.

Compudium – Short for Computerized Medium, a device to contact departed souls.

Remembrane-  A device that makes people remember the things he forgot.

Robu – A robot built with very cheap materials, programmed to answer any question asked to it.

Linguagraph – A device that translates any earth language to any other. The translation capability is supposed to include animal languages, and works on cats, plants, ants and even viruses too. However, it does not work to translate speech of aliens.

Compu – A computer brain with 10 crore delicate curcuit int it.Designed by Shanku along with Matsue, Dr. John Kenseli, Dr. Stephen Merivel, Dr.Stavs, Dr.Ugatti, Prof. Sttraton, Prof. Kutna, Prof. Markus Wingfield (as a replacement of S.Merivel) and the workers of Namura Institute of Japan,which later develops AI via an accident.

Sabash Professor Shonku : Story Book

Intellectron – A device to measure intelligence.

Ornithon – A device to educate birds. Professor Shanku was able to "educate" a crow named Corvus using this device.

Snuff Gun – A gun that causes snuffing for thirty three hours.

Pill for Nightmare – Causes sleep and makes the taker have terrible nightmares.

Bidhusekhar - The mechanical man with AI.

Fishpill - Space food for cats.

Rocket - A rocket for space adventures.

Batika Indica - A pill made from sap of Banyan tree to ward off need of food and water for 24 hours.

Professor Shonku with His Robot BidhuShekhar  With  Annihillin Gun and Pet cat Newton in his Lab

Professor Shonku`s Villains:

Other than stories of a scientist, all Shonku stories were adventure stories too. Every story has a villain or equivalent who tries to harm Shonku, or what Shonku tries to protect, but needless to say, fails. If we go through the list of his villains, we make a similar surprising discovery.

Analysing the complete stories we find there were 35 villains in his stories, 3 stories were without villains, and of these 35, 7 did not seem to want to harm Shonku in any way. So I have called the others his enemies. Analysing their nationality we get this 

Professor Shonku o Har  :   Shonku o Robu in Comics

Professor Bogelt in Professor Shonku and Robu:

Professor Bogelt made a unique Humanoid Robots of his own kind.  The Humanoid Robot captured Bogelt and tried to Purchase Shonku`s Robot  " Robu " By forcefully for the best Mathematical calculations performed by the Robu.

A Fakir in Professor Shonku o Har:

Professor Shonku meets a fakir who has this ability to re-animate a living thing from its bones. Shonku tries to investigate, which enrages the fakir and the causes him to curse Shonku. Later in his life, Shonku discovers the remains of a dinosaur in a cave along with an assistant. The curse starts to take effect and the dinosaur comes back to life.

Shonku o Chi Ching and Shonku o Arshajya Putul  in Comics

Magician Chi Ching in Professor Shonku and Chi Ching:

Magician  Chi Ching Failed to hypnotized Shonku at Stage of Hong Kong. Later Chi Ching Came to Shonku`s House in Giridih to complete his revenge by hypnotizing Shonku and created a illusion of fearfull small Lizerd turned Dragon  in his Lab.

Artist Lindquist in Professor Shonku and Arshajya Putul (Unique Doll):

Lindquist make a secret solution which can made any  Human into miniaturized Doll and this Lunatic artist collect the Famous People around the World. After making those People into Living Dolls Lindquist made them dead by giving Electric Shock. Shonku Escaped alive from him for his invention of Shock proof Carbothin Vest.

Munro Diper Rahasya in Comics

Pirate Blackhole Brandon in Munro Diper Rahasya ( Mystry of Munro Island):

Pirate Blackhole Brandon from 15 th Century became alive to mordern day due to the miraculous Fruits with all-disease healing capacity only found in Munro Island. Due to the excessive food consuming capacity (Which is the another side effect of Fruits) Blackhole consume all the flesh of all Living Creature of this Island and became dangerous Demon. Brandon ultimatly killed by the gun from Professor Shonku.

Shonkur Congo Abhijan in Comics

 Carl Hymendorf From Professor Shonkur Congo Abhijan (Shonku`s Congo Expedition):

Carl Hymendorf created a Mechanical T.Rex Dinosaur to made other explorer away from the Particular area of Congo Basin where large amount of Blue Diamond were found.

Professor Shonku with His Robot BidhuShekhar