Bollywood is For Lovers

154: Murder Most Fun: Detective Byomkesh Bakshy! and Murder Mubarak

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We are polishing our magnifying glasses and donning our deerstalkers, because once again, murder is afoot! 

Show notes:
  • We just love murder mysteries!
  • Our Noirvember playlist
  • To Those Who Killed Me and Call of the Void, the mystery books Matt has edited
  • You can't have too few or too many characters in a murder mystery
  • Detective Bymokesh Bakshy!
  • "When the Hindu Right Came for Bollywood"
  • Byomkesh Bakshi
  • Comparisons to other famous fictional detectives
  • Kosuke Kindaichi
  • 1940s setting
  • The music and the violence go too hard
    • INTERVAL ("Calcutta Kiss" from Detective Byomkesh Bakshy!)

    • Murder Mubarak
    • Is Sanjay Kapoor one of our guys?
    • "In a movie about rich people you can't kill the help"
    • Karisma Kapoor's first film in 12 years
    • Fantasy casting The Thin Man
      • NEXT TIME: Singer Movies

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