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. 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. (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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