Detective Byomkesh Bakshy

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Detective Byomkesh Bakshy

2015

2h 15m

Mystery & Thriller

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In the 1940s Calcutta, recent college graduate Byomkesh Bakshy squares off against an evil genius who wants to destroy the world.

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Faiza S. Khan

Guardian

04/12/2015

2/5

Adventure fails to permeate the listlessness of this overlong, self-indulgent would-be thriller.

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Namrata Joshi

Outlook

04/10/2015

2.5/4

Dibakar's reinvention of the Sharadindu Bandopadhyay detective is a ponderously crafted artifice rather than the handiwork of an off-the-cuff talent.

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Shubhra Gupta

The Indian Express

04/08/2015

3/5

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.

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J Hurtado

ScreenAnarchy

11/03/2017

Detective Byomkesh Bakshy is good, but there's no real anchor in the film on which I can pin its success, and perhaps that is a marker that its success isn't all that successful.

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Shilpa Jamkhandikar

Reuters

06/06/2017

Rajput immerses himself as Bakshy and comes out on top, but the film itself never manages to soar, despite threatening to do so many times.

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Nandini Ramnath

Scroll.in

06/21/2016

Although Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! works hard on creating a convincing setting for Byomkesh to make his mark, the characters are mostly under-written and the central mystery lacks tension and a sense of imminent danger.

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Shiv Ashish S

@RT60927830 06/27/2025

Very unique story and casting is amazing ! Definitely recommended film

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Avinash J

@RT74984793 04/06/2025

i can not believe how this movie was a flop and have lower ratings. if you guys don’t like this then you are inhuman but mindless animals

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Saurabh g

@RT94365534 03/13/2025

One of the best movie 🍿 you can watch.

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04/21/2021

Everyone knows if the movie was very good, great. And all credit goes to let Sushant Singh Rajput , all actor , director all team members for making this movie better.

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01/24/2021

It is the best movie

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11/13/2020

This movie is overrated. Slow, boring and the plot twist can be easy guessed.

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Synopsis

In the 1940s Calcutta, recent college graduate Byomkesh Bakshy squares off against an evil genius who wants to destroy the world.

Director: Dibakar Banerjee
Producer: Dibakar Banerjee
Screenwriter: Dibakar Banerjee, Urmi Juvekar, Dibakar Banerjee, Urmi Juvekar
Distributor: Yash Raj Films
Production Co: Dibakar Banerjee Productions, Skywalk Films, Yash Raj Films
Genre: Mystery & Thriller
Original Language: Hindi
Release Date (Theaters): Apr 3, 2015, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Dec 16, 2015
Box Office (Gross USA): $579.1K
Runtime: 2h 15m