Crime On The Screen

The Mystery of the TV Set (or, why Agatha Christie works best on the small screen)

Television has done far better justice to the celebrated crime writer’s novels and stories than the movies.

Ankita Chawla
· Aug 30, 2016 · 11:00 am
Akshay Kumar’s ‘Rustom’ is only the latest movie to be inspired by the 1959 Nanavati case

Before ‘Rustom’, ‘Yeh Rastey Hain Pyar Ke’ and ‘Achanak’ had brought to the screen KM Nanavati’s murder of his wife’s lover.

Karan Bali
· Jul 02, 2016 · 01:30 pm
‘The Devotion of Suspect X’ vs ‘Drishyam’: The perfect alibi meets the perfect double crime

The best-selling Japanese novel has clearly inspired the 2013 Malayalam hit movie. But that hasn’t prevented a spate of remakes, including one in Hindi.

Nandini Ramnath
· Jul 02, 2015 · 01:30 pm