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Best Bengali crime movies, ranked

The 12 best reviewed Bengali crime films in our records, ranked by the BMR score: every critic rating converted to one scale and averaged. 30 films are listed in this group and 12 have at least 2 critic reviews, the minimum to be ranked. First place: Bohurupi: The Golden Daku (4.3/5). Across the 12 rated ones, the average critic score is 3.2/5, about the same as the 3.3/5 average for all Bengali films.

Updated 15 Oct, 7:30 pm IST. Scores only, no opinions of ours.

  1. 1

    Bohurupi: The Golden Daku

    Directed by Nandita Roy, Shiboprosad Mukherjee. With Jisshu Sengupta, Shiboprosad Mukherjee, Koushani Mukherjee.

    A Windows Production film from Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee, with Jisshu Sengupta as the cop and Shiboprosad Mukherjee as the Golden Daku.

    Action · Crime · 2h 48m

    ReviewsBox office

    4.3

    4 critics

    ₹47 Lakh India net

  2. 2

    Bhaggyolokkhi

    Directed by Mainak Bhaumik. With Ritwick Chakraborty, Solanki Roy, Swastika Dutta.

    A married couple discover a dead body with a suitcase of cash in their house and get entangled in a web of crime involving politicians, police and cold-blooded killers. Can…

    Crime · Drama · 1h 59m

    Reviews

    4.1

    3 critics

  3. 3

    The Eken

    Directed by Joydeep Mukherjee. With Anirban Chakrabarti, Paayel Sarkar, Somak Ghosh.

    A Darjeeling holiday draws Ekendra Sen into a murder investigation. Bapi and Pramatha join him as he follows the clues through the hill town.

    Adventure · Comedy · 2h 12m

    Reviews

    4.0

    2 critics

  4. 4

    Chaalchitro – The Frame Fatale

    Directed by Pratim D. Gupta. With Tota Roy Chowdhury, Shantanu Maheshwari, Anirban Chakrabarti.

    The thriller delves into the lives of four cops from Kolkata Police, as they go about investigating a series of murders rocking the city. As the plot thickens, the personal…

    Crime · Mystery · 2h 2m

    Reviews

    3.7

    3 critics

  5. 5

    The Eken: Benaras e Bibhishika

    Directed by Joydeep Mukherjee. With Anirban Chakrabarti, Suhotra Mukhopadhyay, Somak Ghosh.

    Eken Babu arrives in Benaras with Bapi and Pramatha and soon finds himself entangled in a perplexing mystery. Strange coded messages lead him to a sinister conspiracy threatening the Masaan…

    Adventure · Comedy · 1h 58m

    Reviews

    3.5

    5 critics

  6. 6

    Zulfiqar

    Directed by Srijit Mukherji. With Prosenjit Chatterjee, Dev, Parambrata Chatterjee.

    A modern day adaptation of two of William Shakespeare's tragedies - Julius Caesar and Antony and Cleopatra.

    Crime · Drama · 2h 20m

    Reviews

    3.0

    4 critics

  7. 7

    Raktabeej 2

    Directed by Nandita Roy. With Abir Chatterjee, Ankush Hazra, Mimi Chakraborty.

    Months after the failed assassination attempt on President Animesh Chatterjee, investigator Pankaj Sinha and SP Sanjukta Mitra uncover a deadly plot, Mission M2, led by Munir Alam.

    Action · Crime · 2h 31m

    Reviews

    3.0

    4 critics

  8. 8

    Taarkata

    Directed by Samik Roy Choudhury. With Vikram Chatterjee, Meiyang Chang, Priyanka Sarkar.

    A former police officer returns to his hometown to probe a puzzling death connected to his history.

    Action · Comedy

    Reviews

    2.9

    2 critics

  9. 9

    Raghu Dakat

    Directed by Dhrubo Banerjee. With Dev, Anirban Bhattacharya, Sohini Sarkar.

    A mystical tale of Bengal's defining era, where an unlikely hero transforms into a legendary figure through extraordinary deeds and becomes forever woven into the fabric of cultural memory.

    Action · Crime · 2h 32m

    Reviews

    2.7

    3 critics

  10. 10

    Nibba Nibbi

    Directed by Tathagata Mukherjee. With Rishav Basu, Sauraseni Maitra, Shantilal Mukherjee.

    A stolen hard drive drags a ruthless couple into a deadly game of power and survival.

    Action · Comedy · 2h 1m

    Reviews

    2.7

    4 critics

  11. 11

    Madam Sengupta

    Directed by Sayantan Ghosal. With Rituparna Sengupta, Rahul Bose, Paran Banerjee.

    A famed cartoonist's search for her daughter's killer unravels a sinister trail of poetic murders, leading back to her estranged ex-husband, whose forbidden play threatens to expose Kolkata's darkest secrets.

    Crime · Mystery · 2h 10m

    Reviews

    2.6

    4 critics

  12. 12

    Khadaan

    Directed by Soojit Dutta. With Dev, Jisshu Sengupta, Idhika Paul.

    Shyam comes from the remote areas of Purulia to work as a laborer in the coal mines of the Damodar Valley. The story of Mohan and Shyam will proceed with…

    Action · Crime · 2h 15m

    Reviews

    2.4

    4 critics

Quick answers

What is the best Bengali crime movie of all time?

Bohurupi: The Golden Daku has the highest BMR critic score in this group, 4.3/5 from 4 critics.

What are the top 3 Bengali crime movies?

Bohurupi: The Golden Daku, Bhaggyolokkhi, The Eken.

How are Bengali crime movies rated overall?

Across the 12 rated ones, the average critic score is 3.2/5, about the same as the 3.3/5 average for all Bengali films.

How is this ranking decided?

Each critic rating is converted to one common scale and averaged. Every critic counts the same. A film needs at least 2 scored critic reviews. Ties go to the film with more reviews. BMR estimates (read from reviews that print no rating) are marked and count less.

Which of these earned the most at the box office?

Bohurupi: The Golden Daku has the highest India net among them, ₹47 Lakh (Sacnilk, Bengali version).

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Scores are the BMR score: every critic rating converted to one scale and averaged. Box office is Sacnilk's India net, Bengali version. A dash means the figure does not exist yet, never zero.