1 Time Film Excess Nominee:
Best Documentary: Philip Cox (lost to Corman's World: Exploits of a Hollywood Rebel)
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| Detective Rajesh Ji in front of his helpers in Philip Cox's The Bengali Detective |
QUICK REVIEW:
In this fine human interest documentary, we meet a Bengali private detective and his team in Kolkata, India, where they do their best with forgeries, adultery and a triple murder case. Meanwhile, they audition for a talent-dancing-show, and the boss's wife dies of illness.
The Bengal Indians are a fascinatingly candid and peculiar people, and Detective does its part to blend music and dance naturally into its particularly Indian mix of seriousness and fun. There are touching moments, dashing visuals and something very human in the 'hero', who, despite his pride and the fact that he's no outstanding detective, really does his best in his job and believes in his vocation.
Documentary filmmaker Philip Cox has previously made the Argentinian set Mbya, Tierra en Rojo (2006).
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Watch the trailer for The Bengali Detective here
Budget: Unknown
Box office: Unknown
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How do you like The Bengali Detective?
Other good documentaries about India?
If you've seen Philip Cox's Mbya, Tierra en Rojo, how is it?
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