THE BUCKINGHAM MURDERS : FILM REVIEW

The Buckingham Murders is another of those new Netflix releases whose No. 1 position in the  streaming services' movie chart makes as much sense as the film itself.

Now, to clarify, the story and the screenplay [ credited to Aseem Arora, Raghav Raj Kakker, Kashyap Kapoor] isn't that complicated - no matter how much one hopes it may have been.

The senselessness is the omnipresent approach of unoriginality that dilutes what could have been a pretty fair thriller. If, that is, the director Hansal Mehta [ Shahid, Scoop] had considered giving the film an air of a thriller.

For starters, there is only one murder in. The Buckingham Murders ; or rather, one murder that connects directly into the story.

That murder, that of a school-going boy, whose killer is caught and tried and sentenced by the law, is but a set-up to create a cloud of gloom around the main character.

The dead child belongs to Jasmeet Bhamra [ Kareena Kapoor, also one of the co-producers of the film], a police detective who requests a transfer to the peaceful Buckinghamshire county.

Soon, the body of a teenage boy is found dead inside the front of a car, in the middle of the woods, which sparks a brief and uninteresting racial stand-off between the Sikh and Muslim communities.

The dead teenage boy belongs to a family that already seems fishy. The father [ Ranveer Brar ] is struggling to restart his business, the people staying at his house [ as is the case in most expat communities ] seem weird, and the mother's reactions are a little off [ she is played by Prabhleen Sandhu].

One soon learns that, that's probably because the boy is adopted. The case begins to become stupid. The head detective on the case [ Ash Tandon] is seemingly biased towards the culprits that are immediately caught.

'' Produced by Balaji Telefilms, The Buckingham Murders is rated suitable for ages 18 and over, and features murders, infidelity and personal biases of characters against people and communities.

The World Students Society thanks Mohammad Kamran Jawaid.