"DBB" is a stubbornly placid tale of an iconic detective who seems to know more about Kolkata and its underworld than any authority of or on the metropolis in the 1940s. Ladies and gentleman, unveiling the smartest smoothest and slickest and the most slippery whodunit in Hindi cinema's living memory. To get to the bottom of that mystery of why the murder mystery never came to fruition before this, we must wait for the film on the desceration of the whodunit in Bollywood.īut for now. Maybe the genre waited to be cracked by the deftly disingenuous Dibakar Bannerjee. Somehow Hindi cinema never got down to doing a real murder mystery before this. Exquisite in form, compelling and at times, deeply impenetrable in content, "Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (DBB)" is what a whodunit was meant to be all along.
By Subhash K Jha (IANS) | The News Minute | Ap| 08:31am ISTįilm: "Detective Byomkesh Bakshy" Cast: Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Swastika Mukherjee, Divya Menon, Neeraj Kabi Director: Dibakar Banerjee Rating: ****(4 Stars)Īs layer after layer of intrigue and mystery are peeled off this Chinese puzzle of a movie, you are finally left staring wide-eyed and open-mouthed at a work of wondrous art.
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