Sharad feels that the show and the character offer something new. "I don't like to repeat the roles I have done. It's a finite show with 52 episodes," he says.
So has he followed any particular detective while enacting the role? "No. The makers were perfectly fine with my style. They didn't force me to follow anyone (laughs)," he says.
The actor himself likes the characters of Byomkesh and Karamchand, and also loves Sherlock Holmes.