Buckingham Murders REVIEW : Hansal Mehta-Kareena Kapoor Collaborate On An Intriguing Whodunit

Buckingham Murders movie review is out and the film marks the collaboration of Kareena Kapoor with filmmaker Hansal Mehta

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Buckingham Murders REVIEW : Hansal Mehta-Kareena  Kapoor Collaborate On An Intriguing Whodunit
Not that  she is not aware of her own  power. Oh no! KKK knows exactly what she is  worth  in the market. And she charges what she thinks she deserves: not a penny more not a penny less. But Kareena Kapoor Khan values the wrong aspects  of her brilliance.  It’s  like paying attention to the topfloor restaurant  in the Eiffel Tower rather than the monument itself,  just because it is economically viable.

Kareena is  blissfully unaware of  her power as an actor. In Hansal Mehta’s  The Buckingham  Murders  she plays Jaspreet Bhamra  a police detective grieving for her little  son who dies in freak shooting. Kareena’s is not  the  usual Bollywood-walla sar-patak-patak-ke grieving woman.She is  a woman who is  numbed by grief. She won’t give the men  around her  the  pleasure to gloat over her  misery.

It is a pleasure to watch Kareena  exude  so much tragedy without resorting to excessive  melodrama. She keeps the grief bottled  up inside until two male  characters, one  a supercilious colleague  Hardik  Patel(Ash Tandon) and the other Daljit Kohli(Ranveer  Brar),  the  father of  murdered child , express naked misogyny. She punches both the men in the  nose.Hard!  Now  the question  is, could  a beautiful woman punch so hard? Another question is, can grief be  expressed  with such supreme  stoicism?


The answer to both questions is amply provided by  KKK in  Hansal Mehta’s  intriguing murder mystery; intriguing  for its rippling writing(by Aseem Arrora,Raghav Raj Kakker Kashyap Kapoor) which  brings on  one level of unrest, personal  and interpersonal,  after  another not caring for punctuations marks. Comas  and fullstops are  for the philistines.

 At one point in  the  storytelling communal riots break out in Buckingham where  a young teen  is murdered, a young Muslim  is arrested and the  town goes up in flames.Hansal  piles on the crisis  , including a “forbidden”    gay angle towards the end, packing in a  universe of  suggestions and revelations in less than two hours of playing time.

   The songs  and  the very intrusive  background  music could have  been  avoided. They only  remind us  of  how gracefully and  quietly  KKK  whips up  seminal  emotions  without threshing and pounding into her  roomy bag of  tricks. The  Buckingham  Murders is  unlike  any whodunit we have seen  in recent times. A few  years  ago Vidya Balan had tried to  play the  sleuth in Neeyat. She failed to  bring either layers or luminosity  to her character. Kareena gets there  without making a song and dance of  it.

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