And with the exception of some intrusively modern music (on an otherwise sharp soundtrack) and a few scenes of hyped-up 21st-century violence, the filmmakers maintain the period flavor, which is the movie’s strength. Banerjee, who wrote the script with Urmi Juvekar, keeps the pace slow and easy. This sets off a whodunit that involves drug smuggling, patriotism in wartime (ruled by the British, Calcutta is in the path of the Japanese) and a love story made low-key by Byomkesh (a wryly understated Sushant Singh Rajput), a sometimes squeamish, often clueless genius - the kind of fellow who doesn’t recognize movie stars or politicians. He is slapped for rudeness, then hired, by Ajit (Anand Tiwari), a young man whose father, a chemist, has gone missing. The Byomkesh here is just starting out as a detective.
(Kudos to the production designer, Vandana Kataria, and the cinematographer, Nikos Andritsakis.) No songs or dances here, only a straight-ahead mystery, set in a 1943 Calcutta of smoke-filled canteens and sign-encrusted streets, elegant public buildings and cramped boardinghouses. In war torn Calcutta during the 1940s, Byomkesh Bakshy, fresh out of college, pits himself against an evil genius who is out to destroy the world. With Dibakar Banerjee’s atmospheric “Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!,” a Yash Raj production, he now gets the full Bollywood treatment, or perhaps the half-Bollywood treatment. Detective Byomkesh Bakshy (2015) Action Mystery Drama Play Trailer. (He’s even the hero of a lesser-known Satyajit Ray film, “Chiriyakhana,” or “The Zoo.”)
Like Sherlock, Byomkesh started on the page - the creation of Saradindu Bandyopadhyay (1899-1970), he first appeared in 1932 - and has made the leap to the screen. Brainy, analytical and more interested in the truth than in social niceties, the detective Byomkesh Bakshy is a kind of Bengali cousin to Sherlock Holmes.
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