HH Priya Nathji was very fond of Sherlock Holmes and HH Shri
Mahaprabhuji used to bring books from Cambridge Book Depot, Mussoorie by Sir
Arthur Conan Doyle on Sherlock Holmes. Mahamateshwari always said " Priya
looks just like Sherlock Holmes". That it was always HH Priya Nathji childhood ambition to act as Sherlock Holmes
and this was finally fulfilled in December 1991 when he made a film at his
house at Delhi with a video camera on Sherlock Holmes. HH Shri Mahaprabhuji
clapped throughout the making of the film which went late into the night. After
the film was made, HH Shri Mahaprabhuji gave a long lecture that was recorded -
in which he recalled how it was HH Priya Nathji’s life's ambition to act as Sherlock Holmes and
how it had been fulfilled at this point, and how HH Priya Nathji used to say in childhood: 'It will be the
happiest moment of my life when I act as Sherlock Holmes in a movie!!
HH Priya Nathji also
made a commentary on Sherlock Holmes and placed it on You Tube three years
ago., which can be viewed at :
Sherlock Holmes is a fictional detective created by
author and physician Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A London-based "consulting
detective" whose abilities border on the fantastic, Holmes is famous for
his astute logical reasoning, his ability to adopt almost any disguise, and his
use of forensic science skills to solve difficult cases.
Holmes, who first appeared in publication in 1887, was
featured in four novels and 56 short stories. The first novel, A Study in
Scarlet, appeared in Beeton's Christmas Annual in 1887 and the second, The Sign
of the Four, in Lippincott's Monthly Magazine in 1890. The character grew
tremendously in popularity with the first series of short stories in The Strand
Magazine, beginning with A Scandal in Bohemia in 1891; further series of short
stories and two novels published in serial form appeared between then and 1927.
The stories cover a period from around 1880 up to 1914.
All but four stories are narrated by Holmes's friend and
biographer, Dr. John H. Watson; two are narrated by Holmes himself ("The
Blanched Soldier" and "The Lion's Mane") and two others are
written in the third person ("The Mazarin Stone" and "His Last
Bow"). In two stories ("The Musgrave Ritual" and "The
Gloria Scott"), Holmes tells Watson the main story from his memories,
while Watson becomes the narrator of the frame story. The first and fourth
novels, A Study in Scarlet and The Valley of Fear, each include a long interval
of omniscient narration recounting events unknown to either Holmes or Watson.
Doyle said that the character of Sherlock Holmes was
inspired by Dr. Joseph Bell, for whom Doyle had worked as a clerk at the Royal
Infirmary of Edinburgh. Like Holmes, Bell was noted for drawing large
conclusions from the smallest observations
Holmes displays a strong aptitude for acting and
disguise. In several stories, he adopts disguises to gather evidence while
'under cover' so convincing that even Watson fails to penetrate them. Holmes
shares the majority of his professional years with his good friend and
chronicler Dr. Watson, who lives with Holmes for some time before his marriage
in 1887, and again after his wife's death. Their residence is maintained by the
landlady, Mrs. Hudson.
Holmes's primary intellectual detection method is
abductive reasoning. Sherlock Holmes remains a great inspiration for forensic
science in literature, especially for the way his acute study of a crime scene
yields small clues as to the precise sequence of events. He makes great use of
trace evidence such as shoe and tire impressions, as well as fingerprints,
ballistics and handwriting analysis, now known as questioned document
examination. Such evidence is used to test theories conceived by the police, for
example, or by the investigator himself. All of the techniques advocated by
Holmes later became reality, but were generally in their infancy at the time
Conan Doyle was writing. In many of his reported cases, Holmes frequently
complains of the way the crime scene has been contaminated by others,
especially by the police, emphasising the critical importance of maintaining
its integrity, a now well-known feature of crime scene examination.
The Guinness World Records has consistently listed
Sherlock Holmes as the "most portrayed movie character" with 75 actors playing the part in over 211
films. Holmes's first screen appearance was in the Mutoscope film Sherlock
Holmes Baffled in 1900, albeit in a barely-recognisable form.
First William Gillette's 1899 play Sherlock Holmes. Basil
Rathbone starred as Sherlock Holmes alongside Nigel Bruce as Dr Watson in
fourteen US films (two for 20th Century Fox and a dozen for Universal Pictures)
from 1939 to 1946, as well as the radio show "The New Adventures of
Sherlock Holmes" on the Mutual Broadcasting System from 1939 to 1946
Ronald Howard starred in 39 episodes of the Sherlock
Holmes 1954 American TV series with Howard Marion Crawford as Watson. The
storylines deviated from the books of Conan Doyle, changing characters and
other details.
Jeremy Brett is considered one of the best actors to suit
this role, having played the role in four series of Sherlock Holmes, created by
John Hawkesworth for Britain's Granada Television, from 1984 to 1994. Nicol
Williamson portrayed Holmes in The Seven-Per-Cent Solution with Robert Duvall
playing Watson and featuring Alan Arkin as Sigmund Freud. The 1976 adaption was
written by Nicholas Meyer from his 1974 book of the same name, and directed by
Herbert Ross. Bob Clarke directed Christopher Plummer and James Mason
in the 1979 created film Murder by Decree, which followed Holmes, hunting Jack
the Ripper. Between 1979 and 1986, Soviet television broadcast a series of five
made-for-TV films in a total of eleven parts, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
and Dr. Watson, starring Vasily Livanov as Holmes and Vitaly Solomin as Watson.
Christopher Lee starred as Holmes in three screen adaptions, namely Sherlock
Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962), Incident at Victoria Falls (1991) and
Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1992) together with Morgan Fairchild as
"The Woman".
Even now movies on Sherlock Holmes are released in Hollywood
and are widely appreciated.
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