Satyanweshi

This movie is awfully directed. I felt story line had a great suspense potential. Byomkesh's character is awful. dialogues are awful. Despite of potential suspense story direction is very poor for this movie. With all respect to Late Rituparna Ghosh, he made this movie as an art film instead of a thriller. This could have a been a better movie than this. Sujoy Ghosh looks dull in lead character. Background music was very bad. Poor poor dialogue delivery. Byomkesh is different here than you read and imagine . This is the worst suspense movie in Bangla I ever watched.... Byomkesh does not seem to work there.. he is not thinking much.. Movie is a total disappointing. Intead watch Hindi Byomkesh series in youtube which is worth watching..

Perhaps the most vital thing for a film to work is a combination of script and casting. Unfortunately, the casting was totally off-center and the script fell weak.

The emphasis, knowingly or unknowingly, was more on marital discord and Byomkesh Bakshi was reduced to a mere character. If you can ignore that, then this could be a watch at home.

The pace of the film is another issue. Sometimes crippling and sometimes, just chugging along. Being the anal-eye that I am, the was throwing up with the computer graphics.

You would, however, not take back anything from this film, other than the tunes composed by Debojyoti Mishra.

No Offense but Sujoy GHOSH???? Are you kidding me?? His dialog deliveries looked as if he was in a talk show!! I don't know what led the late Rituda to cast Sujoy Ghosh as Byomkesh, but Byomkesh needed to be a much more dynamic personality (At least we get a much more clear image about his style, personality from the pages of the novels). Seriously, Rajat Kapoor's portrayal as this super-sleuth in the early 90's TV series cannot be matched. I am a big fan of Byomkesh and his techniques, but Sujoy disappointed me a little. Sujoy Ghosh lacked the charm and grandeur which defines Byomkesh Bakshi.. But the story was good and Rituparno Ghosh's last piece of work is quite a delight... 4 out of 5 from my side

Byomkesh Bakshi is a popular private investigator character in Bengali Thrillers and created by late Sri Sharadendu Banerjee. In recent years Byomkes Bakshi has been revitalized in Bengali cinema after a long gap in late 60s when Shri Satyajit Ray made "Chiriyakhana" which is the first Byomkesh movie. This Byomkesh cinema is based on the story named as "chorabali" which Shri Ghosh renamed as "Satyenshi". The original story was modified and extended in order to make a full length feature film. However in doing so the flavor of the thriller is completely lost .Instead of focusing on the detail of the investigation Shri Ghosh brought in personal relationship issues with Byomkesh set aside. Anyone will say that the three name game is a poor investigative strategy. The script is very weak and the whole pace of the movie is extremely slow. In the last scene it was not clear why Himangshu was bilnd-folded although it was a night of new moon and it would be more natural in the dark that Himangshu can show his sound detection hit capability ( shabdovedi). It appears to me that Shri Ghosh just trying to use the Byomkesh brand name in making the movie but on the core he put his own agenda which has no connection with the thriller.

Byomkesh Bakshi suddenly became a darling of our film industry and when Rituparno Ghosh decided to do Satyanweshi, I had to take note. His choice of director friend Sujoy Ghosh as Byomkesh was already interesting and like everybody, I too had a lot of expectations. Whatever flak this film got thereafter has to do with the untimely death of Mr Ghosh as I feel if he could have completed this movie, it would not have been a disaster. It was a hurriedly finished project after his demise, the last few scenes and the CGI used were horrific. I will not even consider this as Rituparno's work, as anything which is even 90% finished can't bear your name till you give the final touches. 6/10