Srijit Mukherji to direct film on Sherlock Holmes creator Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle, the celebrated British writer and creator of the iconic detective Sherlock Holmes, will be the central character of a new India-UK co-production feature film, titled ‘Elementary My Dear Holmes’.
The film, which Announced at a special event at the historic Guildhall in London on Monday, will be directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Srijit Mukherji and produced by Shahnaab Alam.
Mukherji, known for acclaimed Bengali titles such as Autograph, Jaatishwar and Gumnaami, said the film will explore the life and legacy of Conan Doyle, delving into the intersections between his reality and the fictional world he created.
‘Doyle’s stories were less about deduction than the anatomy of curiosity itself; the need to look harder, closer, deeper,’ said Mukherji, who was drawn to the stories Sherlock Holmes as a schoolboy.
‘Elementary My Dear Holmes imagines Doyle stepping into his own fiction – a man haunted by the clarity he created, forced to apply it to a world far messier than the one on paper. The film begins with the murder of Mrs Gilchrist and the wrongful arrest of Oscar Slater, but what interests me isn’t the crime, it’s the man watching his imagination blur with reality,” he added. (IANS)