They find just the right balance between the importance and screentime given to his crime-solving and his interpersonal relationships.Įven though they do make his sidekick Ajit a little James Watson-type of a character, getting pulled into his partners dangerously wild goose-chases, he is nonetheless makes for a wonderful brain simulant to Byomkesh.
He connects the dots organically with time, not by doing some Jedi mind trick. They don't go over-the-top in making him an incomparable genius with mind vaults and deductive skills that are sharper than knives used in stabbings in prison. What I do know, though, is that they make Byomkesh frank and outspoken, yet completely lovable and worth rooting for. Having not read a single one of Bandyopadhyay's original works, it's hard for me to say how much of the character Byomkesh in this film is his creation and how much is the result of the flowing creative juices of frequent collaborators/writers Banerjee and Urmi Juvekar. And who better to make you feel like a 15 year-old out on his first date than Banerjee, a rare director who realizes the value of every single syllable uttered by every single character in every single scene.
The combined, composite and compounded effect of it all is a thrilling head rush, that leaves you feeling giddy with pleasure and with the biggest smile on your face as the various layers are peeled back and the truth is out in the open. You get a mystery that deepens as it goes along a mystery that appears insolvable the more you think about it a mystery with so many red herrings and deliberate distractions that it's hard to keep track a mystery with no end in sight a mystery that leaves you anxious as hell and has you shivering with elation a mystery where you're still making wild guesses even as the big reveal comes knocking on your door and a mystery that has as satisfying an answer as you could possibly hope for when you finally open that door. And at the center of it all, you get a Byomkesh Bakshy who isn't an arrogant know-it-all, and isn't infallible and impervious to being played by a smarter nemesis. Instead, you get drugs, multiple murders, Japanese cartels, political turmoil and deviously unpredictable characters. For a first film in a prospective series, you'd expect to be served a delicious yet straightforward whodunnit with a tidy bow wrapped around it by the end.
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