Sharadindu Bandhopadhyay was born on 30 March 1899, in Jaunpur, United Provinces of Agra and Oudh, British India (now in Uttar Pradesh, India). He was an Indian Bengali-language writer.
He completed his matriculation in 1915 from a school in Munger. He joined the Vidyasagar College, Kolkata. Sisir Bhaduri, the doyen of the Bengali stage, was his English professor there.
He was actively involved with Bengali cinema as well as Bollywood. The creator of the Bengali detective Byomkesh Bakshi, Sharadindu composed stories of a wide array of varieties including novels, short stories, crime, and detective stories, plays, and screenplays. Till 1952 he wrote films and then settled down in Pune to pursue a full-fledged career as a writer.
