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Kakababu

Kakababu
First appearance Bhoyonkor Sundor
Last appearance Golokdhandhay Kakababu
Created by Sunil Gangopadhyay
Portrayed by Samit Bhanja
Sabyasachi Chakrabarty
Arjun Chakraborty
Prasenjit Chatterjee
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Aliases Raja Roy Chowdhury
Gender Male
Occupation Researcher, Historian
Family Sunanda Roy Chowdhury/Sontu(nephew)
Nationality Indian

Kakababu (কাকাবাবু) is a fictional character created by Bengali author Sunil Gangopadhyay, that has become legendary in Indian children's literature. The series, falling under the adventure genre of literature, targeted at children and teenagers, started in the autumn of 1979 with the publication of Bhoyonkor Sundor in Anandamela magazine, puja number. Since then, the series continued for 33 years on popular demand, with over 36 adventure novels in print until the death of the author in 2012. The publishers of most of Kakababu adventure books are Ananda Publishers, based in Kolkata, India.

In October 2010 an animated series by the name of Kakababu-Sontu began airing in Ruposhi Bangla.

Though one of the biggest assets of Bengali Literature, the stories of Kakababu has faltered from its usual charm, thrill as well as fame in the recent past years.


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