![]() ![]() Deadly Diamond (Roktomukhi Neela)is I think the most anti-climactic one. I'm sure the original Bengali versions have even more of that. I still enjoyed them (and they grow on you over time, so stick with it) and I think for an Indian audience, the setting and the context in itself adds a lot. ![]() I am also not sure if it is right to judge the entire series on the basis of these 7 tales, but I'm assuming they are put in because they are a representative set. Byomkesh's enigmatic-ness also seems a bit overdone at times to make him a wannabe Sherlock. So on that front I felt these fell short of being truly world-class. In a whodunnit the 'who' is more important than the 'why' to give you that WTF moment. I am not sure if that is because there is something lost in translation, however I am inclined to think not because it is not the mahaul or the atmosphere where they lack but the basic plot and the twist you want in a whodunnit. They are - and how to put it nicely, because I did enjoy listening to them - a bit simplistic or reductive. The stories in this anthology are well, not exactly that. ![]() I'd really enjoyed most of the movie as well which had a really complex plot, so again expectations were of being hit with something intricate. I'm at an age now where I'm always looking out for more desi nostalgia and I had big hopes from the Byomkesh Bakshi series, hoping it'd be the desi Poirot or Sherlock or Peter Wimsey equivalent.
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