He draws you in, he makes you believe in his director's story. He delivers the kind of performance you'd expect from a veteran. The natural flair with which he handles the myriad situations in the movie is impressive. Sushant's portrayal of Byomkesh Bakshy is hard proof that this man has extreme talent. While the director takes extra efforts in packaging and presenting his film, the actor makes sure the soul is intact and engaging.

A vivid and surreal scape of art created by Dibakar and Sushant Singh Rajput in equal parts. Nonetheless, that's a small speck on a much larger canvas. One has to wonder how that would go down with the average hindi film buff. Right at the end, almost out the of nowhere, the film adopts a Kill Bill kind of slash and gore treatment.

And then you have the curious case of blood and gore. It's as if sometimes the movie just takes too long to unravel it's plots. And yet, the pace is a bit deliberate and unhurried. The logic at work in this script is perfect. Not that the movie is too complex or not well thought out. Having said all that, one has to acknowledge the movie's audience unfriendly nature. Dibakar does well to sneak in those Hitchcock and Kurosawa influences. The play with lights, shadows and silhouettes is a nostalgic throw back to the cinema of the forties. Same goes for the cinematography by Nikos Andritsakis. Its as if Banerjee's team travelled back in a time vortex, shot their movie in 1942 and hopped back 73 years in a jiffy. The costumes, the locations, the props, the vehicles and everything that comes together to make the visuals of this movie is faultless. But what about phenomenal production? Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is a glorious example of great production design. There are plenty of twists here to bamboozle your brains out. And yet, Banerjee and co-writer Urmi Juvekar's screenplay keeps surprising you. You're mind starts thinking ahead, you want to second guess what's about to happen. Every step of the way, with every new development you feel a sense of tension. The way his seemingly ordinary case turns into a complex web of crime is fascinating. Yes we've seen and loved the recent Sherlock Holmes blitz in the West, but to watch the wily Byomkesh unravel mysteries in an age when Google and smartphones were firmly locked away in Da Vinci's diary is fascinating. He sets out on a regular missing person's case only to stumble into something deeper, deceitful and totally treacherous. But that hasn't stifled the ambitions of a young private detective called Byomkesh Bakshy. Calcutta is jostling with the nervous air of World War II. This is the perfect example of flawless execution. The storytelling doders a wee bit, it ends up a bit too gory at the end but the filmmaker's vision is just spectacular. It's the most authentic and detailed recreation of that era. You're taken back to the Calcutta of 1940s, literally. His retelling of the Detective Byomkesh Bakshy saga is like a trip in a time machine. If anyone could dig deep into the stretches of time and pull out a murderous and mysterious rabbit out of the hat, its the talented Mr Dibakar Banerjee. There was a time they were abundant, but with moving times, the best were left behind in the golden eras. The enticing Hena Mullick, dies a mysterious death in the Samaddar household.Whodunits are like lost treasure. An estranged family, a set of characters & a sudden death surrounding it.

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