Saturday, August 3, 2013

Byomkesh Bakhshi returns in 2014




Dibakar Banerjee's next venture is perhaps his most ambitious and difficult one.

I'm not trying to undermine his previous work here which includes gems like Khosla ka Ghosla, Love Sex aur Dhokha and Shanghai. The last film, in particular, was a very complex movie to make. in each of these films, Banerjee had tried his hands in the genres that find few takers in Bollywood. Khosla ka Ghosla was a black comedy while Shanghai was a political thriller. His new film also deals with a genre explored rarely in the Hindi film industry - Detective fiction. And he has decided to bring onscreen a character which has seen a no. of incarnations in the past, one as recent as 2010, and is hugely popular among its fans.

Detective Byomkesh Bakhshi, produced by Yash Raj Films, is the new film being directed by Banarjee.