Pracheto Biswas

Pracheto Biswas is a detective and the parallel character of Hercule Poirot in the short film Portrait, a adaptation of Five Little Pigs in the Bengali language released in 2018. Like Poirot, Pracheto also has a moustache. However no attempt is made to develop the character by depicting whatever quirks or eccentrities he may have. In the short space of the 30 minutes of the film's length there probably wasn't any time to do so. The audience is also given no backstory or background to the detective. All that is revealed is his name.

In this adaptation, Pracheto is brought into the case by Bipasha, the Angela Warren parallel. There is no parallel character of Carla Lemarchant. Pracheto solves the case in the same way as Poirot, by interviewing the various witnesses and comparing their accounts, although in this adaptation, all the interviews take place in a single sitting and he proceeds to give the denouement immediately thereafter.

Like in the original, a crucial piece of evidence for Pracheto is that Manini, the Caroline Crale parallel, was observed to wipe fingerprints off the beer bottle. Here, this observation was made by Shantanu, a hybrid character who parallels the two Blake brothers.

Pracheto Biswas is portrayed by Biprajit Dutta.