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Murder at Orient Express (2017) What was supposed to be an Agatha Christie's whodunnit turned out to be highly philosophical one. Sure, we all, by now must be quite familiar with the quirky Inspector Hercule Poirot and his peculiar ways of solving crimes. Here Mon. Poirot carries with him a baggage of a melancholic past and tries to make sense of the actions of mankind; his penchant for criminal activities, his failure to follow the path acceptable as the correct one should be. A single action has many repercussions. A single turn of event that goes against our desires strains our relationships, changes our perspective of the future, increases anxiety, induces phobia, shatters confidence, brings psychosomatic maladies, destroys families literally and metaphorically as well as destroys the whole community in more ways than we realise. All after all the generations of our existence, we still succumb to our primal desires to be blinded by anger and emotions. At the cr...

Rahasya (Secret, Hindi; 2015) After watching the 'Mousetrap' in London, my interest in murders suddenly had a resurgence of sorts. I was pleasantly surprised when this Hindi whodunit came along. In the same vein as Agatha Christie's mystery murders, this film is mind boggling in its storyline. This story is, however, based on the real-life murder that took place in a middle-class household of the Talwars in New Delhi in May 2008. Aarushi Talwar, a 14year old only child of Dr Rajesh and Dr Nupur, dentists, was found dead in her bedroom. Before long it became a national scandal when their male servant was found murdered too. Pretty soon, the media had a field day conducting trial-by-media and practising yellow journalism. After much sensationalism with shoddy police work, the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) moved in. Even though CBI could not conclusively implicate anyone for the double murders, the courts decided to pass life imprisonment for both parents along t...