Into the woods.

As the title suggests, Byomkesh Pawrbo (2016) is a movie about Bengali writer Sharadindu Bandyopadhyay's most famous creation, the master detective Byomkesh Bakshi (played here by Abir Chatterjee.)  Byomkesh has been asked to investigate an arms smuggling ring, so he travels to a small town in the forests of northern Bengal, accompanied by his wife Satyabati (Sohini Sarkar) and his faithful sidekick and chronicler Ajit (Ritwick Chakraborty).

When they arrive, there are . . . complications.  The local police inspector (Sumanta Mukherjee) has told everyone that the great detective Byomkesh Bakshi is coming.  The forest is rumored to be haunted by a "ghost rider," a spectral figure dressed in black and mounted on a black horse.  The town has multiple shady industrialists/obvious suspects.  And Satyabati, who insisted on joining the expedition, comes down with a serious case of cabin fever.

And then there are the murders.  A young man is killed, apparently by the ghost rider.  While investigating that death, Byomkesh witnesses another man getting blown up by a booby trap.  Fortunately. Byomkesh isn't just a well-read eccentric with keen observational skills, he's also a two-fisted man of action with a knack for disguise and a working knowledge of the Mahabharata.

I don't really have very much to say about Byomkesh Pawrbo; it's a well crafted mystery with engaging actors, and despite the arms smugglers it's closer to what you might see in Midsomer Murders than the pulp craziness of 2015's Detective Byomkesh Bakshi.  It's definitely worth your time if you're into that sort of thing.