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 |
Whoa! I never knew so much!
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