Saturday, January 31, 2009

Detective films potential

The detective genre has great potential in India. Very few Hindi films have attempted it seriously. The most memorable so far was Satyajit Ray’s Feluda series in Bengali. Action sequences dominate mainstream Bollywood, but the detective genre is nothing if not a game of intelligence. Would the restless multiplex audience have the patience to wait till the end, when the detective explains what really happened? 

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