Filmmaker Sandip Ray on Tuesday said that he has completed recee for his next upcoming movie ‘Hatyapuri’ of the Feluda series and shooting will begin in May end.

However, he kept people guessing on who would be cast in the fictional detective character created by his father Satyajit Ray, saying “someone having a combination of athleticism and sharpness in his look” will essay the role, PTI reported from Kolkata.

Feluda adventures is a detective series written by famous Indian filmmaker, storywriter abd creative genius Satyajit Ray.

“Me and my team have done a detailed recee in Puri and shooting is likely to begin in May end. I want to complete the film by December so that people can view it in Christmas,” Ray told PTI.

The year-long birth centenary celebrations of Satyajit Ray will end on May 2.

“I had long wished to bring ‘Haytapuri’, which was first published in the children’s magazine ‘Sandesh’, on the big screen,” he said.

Ray had earlier cast actor Sabyasachi Chakraborty as Feluda in movies such as ‘Bombaiyer Bombete’ (2003), ‘Kailashey Kelenkari’ (2007) and Abir Chatterjee in ‘Badshahi Angti’ (2014), among the seven Feluda films he has directed so far.

In ‘Haytapuri’, Pradosh Chandra Mitter aka Feluda visits Puri for vacation but gets embroiled in investigating a murder that takes place in the coastal town during his stay.

Ray had merged two Feluda stories — ‘Samaddarer Chabi’ and ‘Golokdham Rahasyo’ to make his last Feluda movie ‘Double Feluda’ in 2016, the 50th anniversary of the birth of the fictional character.