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

Bollywood is For Lovers

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

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