Tin Goyenda

Tin Goyenda (Bengali: তিন গোয়েন্দা [t̪in ɡoend̪a]) is a very popular and one of the most famous series of juvenile detective novels published in Bangladesh by Sheba Prokashoni. It is actually a Bengali remake of the famous English series The Three Investigators by Robert Arthur. Rakib Hassan started this famous series and later Shamsuddin Nawab took over from him. The Tin Goyenda series is a subseries of Kishore Thriller (Juvenile Thriller) series of Sheba Prokashoni. Apart from Tin Goyenda, Kishore Thriller Adventure is another subseries.The name of the latest released book of tin goyenda is Tin Goyenda volume 121 by Rakib Hasan & Shamsuddin Nawab.

Leading characters

Tin Goyenda, as the name explains, is the tale of three teenage detectives. They are not only the investigators, but adventurers as well. Thrill, suspense and challenge is their main attraction.

The three young friends, Kishore Pasha, Musa Aman and Robin Milford formed the Tin Goyenda. Sometimes Georgina Parker (more commonly referred to as Jina) and her pet dog Ruffian (Rafi for short) accompany them. Tin Goyenda live in Rocky Beach, a small coastal town of California, USA. They are in the same class at Green Hills School, though their grade is not mentioned anywhere. That's why every young reader imagines them as his/her classmate.

Kishore Pasha

Kishore Pasha, a Bangladeshi-American, is the leader of the team (Goyenda Prodhan). His parents died in a car accident when he was 7. His father's name is Zahed Pasha. He has been living with his uncle Rashed Pasha and aunt Maria Pasha since his parents died in a car crash. Mr. Pasha owns a junk yard known as Pasha Salvage Yard. With curly black hair, dark, deep and sharp eyes reflecting the glow of his brilliance, Kishore Pasha has a habit of pinching his lower lip whenever he does some vital brainwork or is lost in a deep thought. His eyes don't miss a single tiny thing and his photographic memory never allows him to forget that. He is a born actor, an electronic wizard and the locomotive of the Tin Goyenda as well. He has two dogs 'Titu' and 'Bagha' .

Musa Aman

Musa Aman, the second detective, is an Afro-American. His first passion is eating and that is why he falls victim of the experimental cooking of Nisan Jung Kim (the Vietnamese cook of Mr. Simon) who loves to cook unusual dishes every now and then. Having an athletic figure and strength, he is the muscle man of the team. Often he uses his head as a weapon to butt the belly of the enemy, especially when there is a need to clear his way. Musa Aman can fight any living thing but he is scared even to utter the name of ghosts. in utmost Excitement he sometimes utters the word 'Khaichhe' (Bengali: খাইছে) (though literally meaning eaten, here it means 'Damn it!'). Often he provides the comic relief for the books. Musa lives with his parents: Mr. Rafat Aman, special effect technician in a film producing company. Musa hates to read books.

Robin Milford

The ancestors of Robin Milford came to America from Ireland. He is the Book-worm (although Kishore reads a lot of books too). This bookworm, also known as the moving encyclopedia, is the researcher and documentation specialist of the team. He works part time in the Rocky Beach Library and the leading local music company. He collects valuable information related to the current case of Tin Goyenda. The first books of the series shows him to be a skinny and short boy, but later on he grows taller and becomes very efficient with the ladies. He is known as a hunk. Like Musa Aman, he also lives with his parents. His parents are journalists. His father Roger Milford works for a famous newspaper. Robin Milford is also said to be an expert mountain climber, though it is mentioned that he broke his limbs several times when climbing. He has a strong sixth sense but lacks karate skills of an expert level. Although he is quite peaceful in nature, he's often found teasing Musa and others.

Additional Characters

Georgina Parker

Georgina Parker or Jina is the only daughter of famous scientist Mr. Harrison Jonathan Parker. She does not live in Rocky Beach, only comes for holidays. She has a soft spot for pets.she loves her dog very much. Her dog Ruffian often accompanies her in her adventures with Tin Goyenda. She sometimes disguises herself as a boy and uses the name George Gobel as an alias. Jina owns an island named 'Gobel Island' which she inherited from her mother. It is strongly believed that she is copied from Georgina George Kirrin, one of the primary characters of Enid Blyton's Famous Five series. Jina is known to be a very stubborn girl and is suspected to have a small crush on Kishore.

Roda

Roda is a new character in tin goyenda and the stories are based on the city named "Death City". In the story,'Mayashahor' tin goyenda meets roda.In the story Rashed Pasha(Kishor's paternal uncle) bought a house there.The city is full of paranormal things.Since Mayashahor, many stories have been written by Rakib Hasan and Shamsuddin Nawab.Such as: Himpisacher Kobole, Doitter Guhai Tin Goyenda, Somoysuronge Abar, Somoysuronge Mohabipad, Bhuter Sahor and many oters.

Other characters

David Christopher

David Christopher is one of the most famous film producers in Hollywood. He gave the Tin Goyenda their first break. Almost all of Tin Goyenda's cases have been transformed into juvenile movies produced by Mr. Christopher. After the first case, Mr. Christopher often calls on Tin Goyenda to solve another puzzling mystery.

Omar Sharif

Omar Sharif is an Egyptian adventure-loving pilot in his late twenties or early thirties. He was the favorite pilot of Davis Christopher. He was introduced in the books Jaladossur Dip 1, 2 (The Island of the Pirates, Part 1 and 2). Later he became Tin Goyenda's favorite Omar Bhai. He took part in a number of adventures with Tin Goyenda. Later, Omar and Tin Goyenda founded a flying club private airliner in the name of 'OKIMURO Corporation' . O for Omar, Ki for Kishore, Mu for Musa and Ro for Robin.

Victor Simon

Victor Simon is a renowned private eye/author/adventurer. He is a very wealthy man keeping a special relationship with the boys. He keeps passing them cases time to time just like Mr. Christopher. Sometimes Mr. Simon and Tin Goyenda work together on the same case.The first story when tin goyenda met him was Khora Goyenda(The lame detective).

Terrier Doyle (known as Shutki Terry)

'Shutki' (Bengali: শুঁটকি) refers to someone very thin, in a crude sense. Terry is the arch rival of Tin Goyenda. Tin Goyenda hates Shutki-Teri very much. Musa hates him the most! He has a team of his own.

Harrison Wagner Fogrampercott (known as Jhamela)

Jhamela (Bengali: ঝামেলা) refers to troubles. This police constable is one of the leading rival and a complete laugh of Tin Goyenda's sequel series Tin Bondhu (The Three Mates). The rivalry began in a small village called 'Greenhills' where Robin, Musa and Fariha (Cousin of Musa) lived in their childhood and Kishore paid a visit time to time. He has a bad habit of telling the word 'Jhamela' (trouble). In the book 'Ekhaneo Jhamela' (Here's Also Trouble) he was transferred to Gobel beach.

William Bobrampercott

William Bobrampercott is the nephew police constable Harrison Wagner Fogrampercott. He was mainly mentioned in the series Tin Bondhu. Despite his uncle's rivalry with the young detectives, he was in a great bond with the boys. He also took direct part in some cases of Tin Bondhu.

Hanson (Known As the Chauffeur of Rolls Royce)

Hanson is a British chauffeur who drives the Tin Goyenda around in a Rolls Royce. As time passes, he also becomes a confident and helper in the boys' investigations

Important places and other things

The headquarter

The headquarter of Tin Goyenda is in Pasha Salvage Yard. It is nothing but a mobile van which Mr. Rashed Pasha bought a long time ago and then forgot about its existence. Tin Goyenda took this chance and made it their headquarter. It is hidden under junk and has several entrances. All the entrances are well hidden and have their own names. Sobuj Fotok Ek (Green Gate One), Dui Surongo (Tunnel Two), Sohoj Tin (Easy Three), "lal Kukur Char" (Red Dog Four) are some examples.

Despite its small size, the headquarter accommodates the needs of Tin Goyenda. Apart from sitting space for them, it also contains a darkroom for photo processing, a storage portion for keeping the track of their cases, a periscope, a telephone,a computer etc.

The Rolls-Royce

In the first book, Tin Goyenda, or more specifically Kishore Pasha, won the use of a Rolls-Royce for 30 days by winning a quiz competition. According to the company, Rent-a-car Auto Rental Company, this luxury car was made for a Sheikh in a Middle Eastern country. But when manufacturing was finished the Sheikh had rejected it. From then on, the company had used it as a publicity tool. The Rolls-Royce is a large black and golden luxury vehicle with a telephone and other comforts. Tin Goyenda uses it in the first few books. When the 30 day period was over, they were no longer entitled to use it. But after finding the precious stone Roktochokkhu (The Red Eye), its grateful owner August August to Tin Goyenda only 'Gus' asked the company to let Tin Goyenda use the Rolls-Royce on his account. Tin Goyenda has used the vehicle from then on when they needed it. Usually Mr. Hanson, a British-American, drives the car for the company.

Brief history

Tin Goyenda appeared at a time when the Bangladeshi Bengali language book market offered very few juvenile detective novels. Apart from the 'Feluda' series by Satyajit Ray, no contemporary detective series for children were available. In August 1985, the first Tin Goyenda book also named Tin Goyenda hit the market and caught the attention of thousands of thriller-loving young people.

The huge success of the first book paved the way of the next one Konkal Dip (The Skeleton Island). The third installment (Rupali Makorsha-The Silver Spider) maintained the high level of thrill and suspense of the previous books. After receiving tremendous responses from the teenage readers of the series, next books did not take much time to reach the eager hands of the readers. As time went by, publishing of the next book becomes more frequent and later a new book was being published in every month.

Sources

Most of the books were adaptations, with stories adapted from various other books, mostly from western writers. This lack of originality has been criticized as a weakness of the series.

As earlier said,it was created based on The Three Investigators.However, after the series had ended in America Rakib Hasan began to continue the series in Bengali which is Tin Goyenda,based on other detective juvenile thrillers of the weast.Here's a list:

First 40-45 stories are from Robert Arthur, Jr's The Three Investigators.These stories have David Christopher on them.

The stories which have Georgina Parker or Gina for short on them,are from British author Enid Blyton's The Famous Five.The name Gina and eventually her full characteristics were based on the series.But other characters were transformed into Tin Goyenda by the hand of Rakib Hasan.The dog of Gina was named Rafian or Rafi for short.

In stories of Green-hills(a village) the three detectives are much smaller in age and solves small cases(most of the time police helps them).In these stories Musa,Robin and Fariha(Musa's cousin) lives in Greenhills.Kishor lives in Rocky Beach and have a dog named Titu.These stories are from The Five Find-Outers,another juvenile series by Enid Blyton.The first story of The Five Find-Outers,The mystery of the Burnt Cottage which was adopted into Jhamela signifies the origin of Tin Goyenda.

Like the stories from The Five Find-Outers,some other stories are based Greenhills.But these stories don't have five on them but seven members.These stories are adopted from yet Enid Blyton's another fictional series The Secret Seven.The dissimilarity between stories of above and these are:in these stories Kishor lives in Greenhills and they forms a detective group named Lodhosh which prefers Rohossho Vedi Dol in Bengali.The seven members are:Kishor,Musa,Robin,Misha(Kishor's cousin),Anita,Doly and Bob.These stories also feature Bably,a cousin of Musa and Nina(Bably's friend) who always interrupt in their case.

Stories with Dick Curter(known as Uncle Dick) are adopted from Enid Blyton's juvenile series The Adventure Series.

Enid Blyton's another series named The Faraway Tree was adopted into some Tin Goyenda books.Shamsuddin Nawab wrote some short stories based on this series' first novel The Enchanted Wood,with some editing leaving some magical creatures from the original novel,out from the adopted one.However,these books were highly criticized by the Tin Goyenda fans.

Christopher Pike's Spooksville series of 24 books were adopted into 24 Tin Goyenda horror stories.These stories has a new character named Roda and the stories are based on the city called Death City,which is Roda's hometown.On the first story Rashed Pasha buys a house on the city and on the following ones Tin Goyenda often come here in the vacations.The city is full of mystery and paranormal things.These stories also features two special character named Tom,the friendly and knowledgeable homeless ex-mayor of Deathcity and a town witch.

For others Rakib Hasan used many juvenile english series.The most notable one is The Hardy Boys.

After writing for more than a decade, Rakib Hassan departed from Sheba Prokashoni and Shamsuddin Nawab took the duty to continue.Shamsuddin Nawab showed some talents on the beginning.But as the time goes he began to bore Tin Goyenda fans writting stories which are very small and not suitable for the teen-agers rather than kindergarten kids.Rumor has it,Shamsuddin Nawab is no other than the Sheba Prokashoni head Kazi Anwar Hussain,but its yet to be confirmed.However,on October,2010 on the commemoration of Tin Goyenda's 25 year anniversary Rakib Hasan was said to be returning in this series soon.

Trademark

When the first met Davis Christopher they showed him a card. Like This:

Tin Goyendas' card in Bengali.

Tin Goyendas' card in English.

Everyone, at first, questions about the 3 question mark (???). Then they answered the question and talk some extra time by it. Actually it is a trick of Kishore Pasha. He thought that anyone who will see their card will ask questions and by the questions they can talk more time with the man/woman. This trick of Kishore Pasha worked perfectly!

Its also a trademark of them. When they got into any trouble, left a sign of question mark. Then others find him by it. Many times it saved their life!

Series

Tin Goyenda

List of first 78 books of Tin Goyenda.

Tin Goyenda (The Three Detectives); Konkal Dip (The Skeleton Island); Rupali Makorsha (The Silver Spider); Chayashwapod (The Invisible Dog); Momee (Mummy); Rotnodano(The Stone Monster); Pretshadhona (Worship of Spirits); Roktochokkhu (Bloodeye); Sagor Saikot (Sea Beach); Jolo Doshyur Dip 1,2 (The Pirates' Island 1,2); Sobuj Bhut (Green Ghost); Harano Timi (The Lost Whale); Mukto Shikary (Pearl Hunter); Mrittu Khoni (Death Mine); Kakatua Rohossho (Parrot Mystery); Chhuti (Vacation); Bhuter Hashi (Laugh of the Ghosts); Chhintai (Kidnapping); Vishon Arunno 1 & 2 (Dangerous Jungle 1,2); Dragon; Harano Upottaka (The Lost Valley); Guhamanob (The Cave Man); Veetu Shingho (The Scared Lion); Mohakasher Aguntok (Strangers from the Space); Indrojaal (Enigma); Mohabipod (Grave Danger); Khepa Shaitan (The Angry Demon); Rotnochor (The Stone Thief); Purono Shotru (Old Enemy); Bombete (The Pirate); Bhuturey Shurongo (The Haunted tunnel); Abar Shommelon (Again a Conference); Bhoyal Giri (The Scary Hill); Kalo Jahaj (The Black Ship); Poacher (The Poachers); Ghorir Golmaal (Clock Malfunctions); Kana Beral (The One-Eyed Cat); Baxota Proyojon (Need the Box); Khora Goyenda (The lame Detective); Othoi Sagor 1 & 2 (Endless Sea 1,2); Buddhir Jhilik (Sparkle of Wit); Golapi Mukto (Pink Pearl); Projapotir Khamar (Butterfly Farm); Pagol Shongho (Club of Mads); Bhanga Ghora (Broken Horse); Dhakay Tin Goyenda (Three Detectives in Dhaka); Jolkonna (The Mermaid); Beguni Jolodosshu (The Purple Pirate); Payer Chhap (Foot Prints); Tepantor (Far Away); Shingher Gorjon (Lions Roar); Purono Bhoot (The Old Ghost); Jaduchokro (Magic Society); Garir Jadukor (Wizard of Cars); Prachin Murtee (Ancient Statue); Jhorer Dip (Storm's Island); Dokshiner Dip(Island of South); Ishshorer Osru(God's Tear); Nokol Kishor(Duplicate Kishor); Tin Pisach (Three Devils); Khabare Bish (Poison in Food); Warning Bell (Warning Bell); Biman Durghotona (Plane Accident); Racer Ghora (Horse of Race); Gorostane Atonko (Fear at Graveyard); Khun! (Murder); Spaner Jadukor (Magician of Spane); Banorer Mukhosh (Mask of Monkey); Kalo Haat (Black Hand); Ovinoy (Acting); Aalor Shonket (Sing of Light); Purono Kaman (Old Tank); Gelo Kothay (Where is It Gone); Okimuro Corporation (Okimuro Corporation); Operation Cox's Bazar (Operation Cox's Bazar); Jinar Shei Dip (That Island of Jina); Kukur Kheko Daini (Dog eater Wich); Jhamela (Problem); Bishakto Orchid (Poisonous Orchid);Noroke Hajir(Welcome to Hell);Pishach Konnya(Daughter of Witch);Somoy Shurongo(Time Cannel);Time Travel(Time Travel)

External links

• listing of Tin Goyenda books available online
• Know from Which Books Tin Goyenda Coverted
• Tin Goyenda
• Facebook page about Kishore Pasha
• [VOOT THEKE VOOTE "ভূত থেকে ভূতে" https://www.facebook.com/pages/%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%A4-%E0%A6%A5%E0%A7%87%E0%A6%95%E0%A7%87-%E0%A6%AD%E0%A7%82%E0%A6%A4%E0%A7%87/145592102186776 ] Is a most popular network system of Tin Goyenda, which is used to collect information about someone or something.Its now on Facebook.