Schmoozing Over Coffee: Mystery

To The Lions - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

May 04, 2019
By Samriddha Bhattacharya
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There are a few basic instincts within us that we cannot control - breathing, eating, drinking and carnal desires. But what about the other instincts that we have within us? The wilderness that lies beneath our skins. How...

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Turn on The Heat - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

February 03, 2019
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Turn on the Heat is a very vintage murder mystery book. The moment you start reading it, you get the old world aura and you can just about imagine all the action taking place on cold foggy night, with...

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The Miss India Murders - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

December 08, 2018
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The world of glamour and glitz has always appealing, but The Miss India Murders appears to be especially so as it involves smooth moisturized legs, shimmery shiny hair, bright dazzling smiles and murder. The expectations I had from...

Crime

Drishtikon by Kaushik Ganguly - Movie Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

May 01, 2018
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To begin with let's say that Drishtikon is a thriller with a different approach. It is not the quintessential gruesome murder, with several people behaving suspiciously to let you point fingers at throughout the film, with sporadic shooting...

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Pretty. Vile. Girl by Rickie Khosla - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

February 14, 2018
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Let me tell you at the very beginning that you MUST. ABSOLUTELY. READ. this book. Every page has a new revelation, every page took me by surprise and I had this funny feeling of wanting to finish the...

Crime

Meghnad Badh Rahasya by Anik Dutta - Movie Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

August 04, 2017
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That the film was made with a lot of brain behind it, is a given. But like people say too much of something is never too good, Meghnad Bodh Rohoshyo is an example to support this testament. Anik...

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They Came to Baghdad by Agatha Christie - Book Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

January 21, 2017
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Generally whenever we read Agatha Christie, we have a certain genteel scenario presented before,us,with cold blooded murder involved of course. But this novel isn't like that. There aren't any parlours, no talk of decorum, no tongue-in-the-cheek dialogues. In...

Crime

Double Feluda by Sandip Ray starring Sabyasachi Chakrabarty - Movie Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

January 05, 2017
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Absence of Jatayu One of the major blows of this movie is the absence of Jatayu. Sandip Ray has directed Double Feluda because the two stories based on which the movie is made does not feature the weak...

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Eagoler Chokh by Arindam Sil starring Saswata Chatterjee - Movie Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

August 24, 2016
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A catchy name + A fetchy plot = Eagoler Chokh. The L.H.S of this equation is director and co-producer Arindam...

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Shororipu starring Chiranjeet Chakraborty by Ayan Chakraborty - Movie Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

June 29, 2016
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A lot of cuss words, a lot of sleeping with this person, that person, with him, with her, murder, murder and four more murders. Its as if scotch, money and lust is what all life has to offer....

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Har Har Bomkesh by Arindam Sil starring Abir Chatterjee - Movie Review - Schmoozing Over Coffee

January 03, 2016
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Based on the story Banhi Patanga by Saradindu Bandopadhay this winter Arindam Sil gives us a racy pacy Byomkesh film for our regular dose of much needed thrill. The movie rolls and enters Byomkesh Bakshi with his wife...