Nearly everything in Birsa Dasgupta's Mukhosh is so painfully obvious, so devoid of dramatic tension that you might forget you are watching a thriller. Policeman dumped in a city waste yard? It's a message from the serial killer, says the smart criminologist Kingshuk (Anirban Bhattacharya), and it's loud and clear: Police is garbage. Believe it or not, that's how literal minded this movie is. When his predictions keep being proven right, a senior officer (Chandreyee Ghosh) under whom Kingshuk works, says, 'He was right'. Some time into the movie, when a wayward teenage hacker appointed by the police department spills coffee on a cross picked up as an important piece of evidence, he, no surprises there, says out loud, 'The evidence is spoiled'.
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