Jatayu (Lalmohan Ganguly)
| Lalmohan Ganguly | |
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| First appearance | Sonar Kella |
| Last appearance | Robertsoner Ruby |
| Created by | Satyajit Ray |
| Portrayed by |
Santosh Dutta Mohan Agashe Anup Kumar Rabi Ghosh Bibhu Bhattacharya |
| Residence | Garpar, Kolkata |
| Alma mater | Athenium Institution |
| Friend | Pradosh Chandra Mitter(Feluda), Tapesh Ranjan Mitter |
| Car | Green Ambassador |
| Driver | Haripada babu |
| Information | |
| Aliases | Jatayu |
| Gender | Male |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Title | Ganguly |
| Relatives | Lalitmohan Ganguly(Great grandfather), Pyaricharan Ganguly(Grandfather) Mohinimohan Ganguly(Uncle), Durgamohan Ganguly(Uncle) |
| Religion | Hinduism |
| Nationality | Indian |
Lalmohan Ganguly, alias Jatayu (Bengali: জটায়ু), (also spelled Jotayu) is a fictional character in the Feluda stories written by Satyajit Ray. He writes crime thrillers, but is quite weak and nervous in real life. He is fairly wealthy due to the immense sales of his books; he writes two books a year. His crime fiction stories have very interesting names, often characterised by alliterations like 'Sahara-ey Shiharan', 'Vancouver-er Vampire', 'Honduras-e Hahakar', 'Atlantic-er Atanka', 'Bidghute Bodmas', 'Arokto Arab' etc. It may be noted that the names of several Feluda stories also exhibit this feature, for example 'Joto Kando Kathmandute', 'Royal Bengal Rahasya', 'Robertson-er Ruby', 'Gosaipur Sargaram','Bombay-er Bombetey' etc. The detective of Jatayu's novel, Prakhar Rudra, is a character with incredible intellect and power. Lalmohan's grandfather gave his name "Sarbogya Gongopadhyay" but Lalmohan does not use that name.
He first meets Feluda in the story Sonar Kella (The Golden Fortress) and from then on he accompanies Feluda and Topshe on all their major adventures. He collects weapons but is often reluctant to use them. Weapons collected by him during different adventures include boomerang, kukri (knife), smoke bomb and even a pestle etc. His whole demeanour is of hilarity and he regularly provides the comic relief in the stories. He has a history with the villain Maganlal Meghraj who had a circus performer throw knives at him in Joi Baba Felunath (The Mystery of the Elephant God) and fed him the drug LSD in Jato Kando Kathmandutey (The Criminals of Kathmandu). The last time Jatayu met Meghraj was at Golapi Mukto Rahashya.
In the Feluda adventures he is a great source of comic relief. However, his qualities improve with time and with his association with Feluda, gradually makes him more knowledgeable and intelligent. In the movie version (not in the original story) of the first story, Sonar Kella, the criminal Mandar Bose escapes due to the folly of Jatayu. But in the later stories we find Jatayu being of great help to Feluda in his work.
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