With 8 episodes of 1 hr each, Aranyak is lengthy but it packs in not only murder and mystery but also love, marital issues, family traumas, revenge, a psycho, a kidnapping, political drama, teenague issues, suspense and drug deals. The stories are interspersed with each other. To hide one crime, another crime gets done, each party with their own secrets to hide. The stories loop into each other to form a full circle and in the end the crime takes a magnitude of its own.
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Buckingham Murders has the requisite twists and turns one would expect from a murder mystery. The title of the movie was a little misleading to me. I expected more British influence, but the star cast is primarily Indian with a setting in an Indian dominant community. The murders in plural led me to believe a serial killer on the loose. While multiple bodies do turn up, and there are unexpected plot twists with adequate hints of something amiss; the movie like Khan’s role appears muted and fails to ignite edge of the seat anticipation or thrill of the unknown.
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