Review of Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015) by Rachel Saltz for The New York Times — 08 Apr 2015
The twisty story has a kink or two too many, a problem of whodunit plotting rather than of Bollywood excess. And the war comes across here as a kind of heightened backdrop rather than real crisis. But these aren’t fatal deficiencies in a film more attuned to movie-made ideas of history and style than to history itself.
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This review of Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! (2015) was written by Rachel Saltz and published by The New York Times on 08 Apr 2015.
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! has generally received positive reviews.
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