telltale: my take on what I watch on screen

Whodunnit murder mysteries – is a genre which has been a favorite of story tellers and audiences since ages. Our minds immediately associate this with Sherlock Holmes, Perry Mason or Hercule Poirot. Despite watching and reading a lot on this subject, it continues to evoke interest. A plot where a murder happens and a detective investigates to find the killer – that’s how simple the basic premise of stories in this segment are usually. What makes it work is that it does not turn out to be as simple as it seems and far more interesting than it sounds.   Streaming now on Netflix, is one such story, where an inspector investigates a patriarch’s death after a family gathering gone wrong. No, I am not talking about Knives Out, another brilliant movie starring Daniel Craig with a similar plot. I am describing the plot of Raat Akeli Hai , starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui who plays an inspector investing the murder of an influential person in a small town in UP. The victim is murdered in hi...