Bishop Lefroy Road: Saradindu Bandyopadhyay's Byomkesh Bakshi whodunnit Chiriyakhana and Satyajit Ray's screenplay for its cinematic adaptation, starring Uttam Kumar, have been published together in a compilation to mark the completion of the film's golden jubilee.

Chiriyakhana Sampurna was released on Wednesday at Ray's residence by son Sandip, making it a birthday tribute to the filmmaker.

The book also has a wealth of illustrations and scribbles from Ray's workbook, publicity material, photographs and anecdotes on the making of the film, most of which was provided by the family. The detective story was first published in the Puja special Anandabazar Patrika in 1953 and the original illustrations have been reproduced as well as an interview of Byomkesh's maker from the archives of the Bengali newspaper.

"I am happily surprised by the handsome production quality of the book," said Sandip, as he released it in front of Ray's garlanded picture. "The screenplays of Nayak and Kanchenjungha, Baba's two films with original screenplays, had been published earlier. He had done the covers for them himself. But both have long gone out of print. With his birth centenary coming up in a couple of years, I hope to bring out all the screenplays of his films."

Also on his wishlist is a film research and study centre on Ray. "We are not getting a suitable venue," he told Metro.

A sketchbook on Pather Panchali had come out earlier as had a book on The Alien. Ray had written the scripts of The Alien but the film never got made. Later, there was a controversy when Steven Spielberg's E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial came out bearing resemblances to Ray's The Alien. "Few know that Baba's first love was science fiction and his first original story was Bonkubabur Bondhu (on which The Alien was loosely based). He created Professor Shonku before Feluda. He was part of a science fiction cine club in the mid-60s," Sandip pointed out.

The germ for the Chiriyakhana book was planted in 2002 when Patra Bharati was leased the publication licence of the Byomkesh story as an individual title. "Ray researcher Somnath Roy painstakingly prepared the screenplay by transcribing the film's DVD. Babuda (Sandip) tallied it with Ray's original kheror khata (workbook). He also opened the Ray Society archives to us. Finally, we got the permission to use the publicity material from the family of producer Harendranath Bhattacharya," said Tridib Chatterjee of Patra Bharati. "We have priced it Rs 600 to make it accessible to all Ray fans," he added.

Barun Chanda, the leading man of Ray's Seemabaddha, who attended the event, wished that the golden jubilees of other Ray films also be celebrated. "Hope I will be around to see a similar publication on Shankar's novel," he said.