The first book of Faster Fene series was published in the year 1974 by Pune-based Popular Prakashan.
He is known to be one of the most popular detective characters of Maharashtra[2] and these Faster Fene novels have been translated into other languages such as English and Hindi.
[1] Banesh Fene is a lanky school-going teenager who is always ready for adventures wherever he goes.
However, in some books and novels his adventures take place in Jammu and Kashmir, near Indo-China border and even in Afghanistan.
In the year 2017, the character of Faster Fene was adapted into an on-screen character for a Marathi movie Faster Fene directed by Aditya Sarpotdar and produced by Riteish Deshmukh.