The Perfect Murder (16 April 2005)
This was a delightful, albeit little-known, movie about a "murder" in upscale Bombay and how almost everything else including a diamond-smuggling racket, a rape, a women's protest march and a Swedish police officer has something to do with it. The movie is based on H R F Keating's Inspector Ghote novel. Playing Inspector Ghote is Naseeruddin Shah who is wonderfully understated and earnest in the lead role. The Swedish police officer is essayed by Stellan Skarsgård who turns in a good comical sidekick performance. Amjad Khan, Ratna Pathak (playing Naseeruddin Shah's wife on screen too), Mohan Agashe and Dilip Tahil are others featuring in the movie which is impressive enough.