There have many, many adaptations of the legendary detective created by Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay on the Bengali film front (including one by Satyajit Ray, Chiriakhana (1967) with no less than Uttam Kumar as the famed detective), as well as a TV series on Doordarshan. The problem is, it just doesn’t all come together as well as it should. It’s a pity since the thriller (and noir) elements are all there – a disappearing character, a murder, more cover up killings, multiple red herrings, the slinky femme fatale and of course, the private eye – in the murky lanes of Calcutta. Impeccable production design creating Calcutta of the 1940s, moody cinematography, and an eclectic lively soundtrack can only do so much in a film that otherwise tells a not-so-engaging story in a rather slow-paced, drudging manner. Sleuth in the making, Byomkesh Bakshy (Sushant Singh Rajput), solves his first case in Calcutta in 1942-3 against the backdrop of World War II.
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