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3.50
Beautiful Noir and little else
Mounted imaginatively, the film is beautiful. Noir to the core like only dibakar can, one falls in love with the frames. Performed well too, everyone in the cast fits the role easily and brings out the right amount of evil to their parts. Sushant Singh as the titular detective is perfect too as long as you do not compare him to legends who have played the detective earlier. He is his own Byomkesh, nothing that we have ever seen before or expect. That works very well, cause this holds the promise of a franchise. God knows we need one. (more)
Source: Ameet Bhuvan, MovieCrow
3.50
With a stunning build-up, Dibakar keeps you guessing till the very end
For Byomkesh Bakshi connoisseurs --- borne out of Saradindu Bandopadhay�s stories or Rajit Kapoor�s Doordarshan avatar of the bhadralok sleuth, or both --- Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!, with a definitive �Y�, may seem like an audacious departure. Our Mr Bakshy is a far cry from the self-assured, reticent, calm and slightly graying at the temples, detective. Just out of college, he seems a little footloose, highly impulsive and even more restless. Heck, he�s also a jilted lover. He�s young and learning, prone to mistakes. But he is sharp and crafty, taking baby steps towards becoming the Byomkesh we have seen on television and imagined in books.(more)
Source: Kusumita Das, Deccan Chronicle
4.00
A classic whodunit thriller which holds the suspense quite firmly till the end.
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy and especially for those who are not smitten by Sherlock Holmes; for them this is a tight mystery with a top-notch execution. Dibakar�s Calcutta of 1940, dopey and dark; take a ride of this side of the town.(more)
Source: Surabhi Redkar, Koimoi
2.00
DETECTIVE BYOMKESH BAKSHY! can be skipped, without any regrets.
The film scores very heavily in its breath taking production value (Vandana Kataria), who is definitely a name to watch out for in this department. Even the film's music (Sneha Khanwalkar, Dibakar Banerjee, Madboy/Mink, Blek, Mode AKA, Joint Family, IJA, Peter Cat Recording Co. - PCRC) comes across with a likeability factor attached to it. The film also scores in the sound department (Allwin Rego, Sanjay Maurya) (a handful of out of sync dialogues notwithstanding). Special brownie points to the film's cinematography (Nikos Andritsakis) for making the film look visually appealing. Because of the 'entangled' script, even the film's editors (Namrata Rao, Manas Mittal) couldn't do much.(more)
Source: Bollywood Hungama News Network, Bollywood Hungama
3.00
Its biggest weakness is its leading man Sushant Singh Rajput
�Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!� is a film that filled me to the brim. It is the kind of film that I will recall and savour, flaws and all. The pacing is languorous, and in the second-half, the stutters become obvious. The Mata Hari like Mukherjee is perfectly accoutered, ivory-handled pistol and all. (more)
Source: Shubhra Gupta, Indian Express
2.50
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is a mystery movie that doesn't mystify
The original stories are so beautifully plotted, so inherently appealing on the most basic level, that even watching those old television episodes on YouTube grabs us immediately by the collar. The multiple Byomkesh adaptations Bengal keeps churning out might not make for great cinema, but, based as they mostly are rather slavishly on Saradindu�s work, enthrall new audiences regardless. Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! is the best looking and least captivating of the current lot. And, as said earlier, he didn't like to be called detective. Defective Byomkesh Bakshy, then. (more)
Source: Raja Sen., Rediff.com
