6 Bollywood Detective Films That Deserve A Fresh Round of Applause

Before Abbas-Mustan made Race, they made Baadshah, an equally twisty film but with plenty of humour. Diehard fans of Shah Rukh Khan already know about this quirky film and probably remember the various high-tech gadgets he used. Raj, an aspiring detective, wants to follow his deceased father’s footsteps and starts his own agency called Baadshah Detective Agency. He is desperate to get a big break. However, when he is hired for a simple case to rescue a hostage, a crazy twist of fate brings him face to face with a case much larger than he had anticipated.

Bees Saal Baad

Biren Nag’s 1962 classic starring Biswajit Chatterjee and Waheeda Rehman is a film that deserves to be on every list. The film is a loose adaptation of Arthur Conan Doyle’s The Hound of the Baskervilles, as well as the novel Nishithini Bivishika. A spirit of a young girl, who died after being assaulted by a Thakur, haunts their residence. The Thakur and his son are killed by the vengeful spirit. When the grandson Kumar comes to his ancestral home, he is warned by locals that he will be killed next. However, he does not believe them and stays anyway. Here he meets Radha, a carefree girl with whom he forms a bond. After an attempt on Kumar’s life, Radha tries to figure out the reality behind the evil spirit.