The Bengali Detective Review from LAAPFF 2011

The Bengali Detective follows Detective Rajesh Ji and his motley crew of detectives as they solve crimes ranging from menial tasks of tracking down counterfeit shampoo products to grisly murders that the police are too lazy and corrupt to figure out themselves. As we follow their lives, especially that of Rajesh and his family, we also get to see his obsession with being on a dance show competition. Later on, he makes it happen and gets his extremely unfit crew of detectives to form a dance crew that is just freaking hilarious and adorable to watch.

When the film finished, I was left with a dazed feeling that I have never seen a film like this. It seemed so larger than life and at the same time, incredibly normal. It was only until the end that I came to grasp that what I was watching wasn’t fictional but a glimpse of reality that truly exists. That there are detectives out there, trying to make a buck in a place where police is largely corrupt and 70% of murders are left unsolved. Detectives who are full of heart and love, detectives who have crazy dreams of being on a dance show competition. Detectives who are just like you and me, and by no means a superhero.

Yet at the same time, the dedication that Rajesh has for his cases and his inspiration to lead his crew is beautiful to behold. Watching stories like these, I’ll take one of The Bengali Detective over a hundred Hollywood crime flicks. If this film ever comes out in your area, I strongly suggest you check this out.

About Edward

Edward Hong is an actor and spoken poet. Passion to make a change in this world through the performing arts and activism defines his ongoing life and it is the struggle against all things unjust that gives him this passion to be one heck of a talkative, stubborn man. It, however, does not mean he strives to be a champion or role model of any community but to be the man who will be honest and say the things nobody will have the balls to say. He is the jester who is outspoken in what he believes in most passionately and therefore cannot be pinpointed that he will do what you expect him to do.
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