If you like your cinema fast and furious, then head to the seventh installment of that franchise. I also enjoyed Swastika Mukherjee as the sexy and mysterious actress Anguri Devi. It’s a demanding role and Sushant Singh Rajput more than delivers. He sees the heart of darkness and emerges wiser, more mature and, ironically, a tad more joyful. It’s fascinating to see Byomkesh evolve as the case does. I’m a huge admirer of Dibakar and I have to tell you that, at mid-point, I was really worried.īut slowly the multiple strands come together, the pace picks up and the film climaxes in a bang – what starts out as an innocuous missing-persons case snowballs into a battle for Calcutta itself. There are stray moments of excitement and then the film reverts to its somnambulistic pace. The characters make stilted conversation. detective byomkesh bakshy is a 2015 india film directed by dibakar banerjee the film is about bengali is a famous 5 / 17. But there is no tension in the tangled narrative. Each frame has been painstakingly crafted. Even the stains of the walls of the boarding house where much of the action takes place are artful. You admire the lush camerawork by Nikos Andritsakis, the soundtrack by Sneha Khanwalkar, the sound design by Allwin Rego and Sanjay Maurya and, most of all, the beautifully detailed production design by Vandana Kataria. The opening sequence stuns you but then the storytelling goes static. It’s a deliciously dark story and yet, until the interval, it doesn’t fully engage. As Dibakar and co-writer Urmi Juvekar tell it, Calcutta is a cesspool of crime with gang lords, drugs, opium dens, corruption and, naturally, a full-bodied, red-lipped, femme fatale. Byomkesh Bakshy.”Ī character says of him: “Mooh kholta hai toh mann karta hai mooh tod doon sale ka.”īyomkesh gets queasy when he sees blood but that doesn’t prevent him from investigating murders most foul. Byomkesh is raw, smart and arrogant enough to do a Bond-like introduction: “Bakshy. The story is set in pre-Independence Calcutta during World War II.
The film is based on the iconic characters created by Saradindu Bandyopadhyay in 1932. Because ultimately Dibakar rewards you with a memorable experience and leaves you hankering for more. The first half is bewilderingly inert, but you must hang in there. You will have to indulge director Dibakar Banerjee as he indulges himself. It simmers and thickens and leisurely acquires a rich and long-lasting flavour. Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! is a slow-cooked feast.
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