The Extended Canon
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!
डिटेक्टिव ब्योमकेश बख्शी! · 2015
1943 Calcutta, a missing chemist, a Japanese invasion scare and a young truth-seeker who has not yet earned his reputation.
- Director
- Dibakar Banerjee
- Year
- 2015
- Genre
- Mystery · Thriller
- Cast
- Sushant Singh Rajput, Anand Tiwari, Neeraj Kabi, Swastika Mukherjee
Why it's in the canon
The most ambitious production design of its year and a genuinely difficult, adult mystery.
1943 Calcutta, a missing chemist, a Japanese invasion scare and a young truth-seeker who has not yet earned his reputation.
Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! sits in the 2010s alongside Gangs of Wasseypur and Masaan — a decade this canon treats as formative.
The Bollywood 100The essentials
- Directed by Dibakar Banerjee — also responsible for Khosla Ka Ghosla, Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye!, Shanghai.
- Released in 2015, in the 2010s — see everything else from that decade.
- Filed under Mystery, Thriller.
- Read more on Wikipedia, check the full crew on IMDb, or find a legal stream via JustWatch.
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