TORONTO — Entertainment One has nabbed international distribution rights for Philip Cox’s “The Bengali Detective,” it was announced Tuesday. Fox Searchlight acquired worldwide remake rights to the ...

Phil Cox's vivid docu "The Bengali Detective" follows a pudgy private dick who leads a ragtag sleuthing team as they investigate murder, adultery and counterfeiting in Kolkata (formerly Calcutta).

In response to police corruption, the private detective business has become increasingly common in India. “The Bengali Detective” follows the life of detective Rajesh Ji, who, along with his ragtag ...

It's easy to see why Fox Searchlight recently purchased "remake rights" to the British-Indian film. By Kirk Honeycutt Category: World Documentary Competition Synopsis: Cameras follow the overweight, ...

Making The Bengali Detective was an incredibly intense period of filmmaking. I and my small team had no idea where our detective and his investigations would lead us. Each client brought their own ...

PARK CITY, UT January 24, 2011 – Fox Searchlight Pictures President of Production Claudia Lewis announced today that the company has acquired worldwide remake rights from Native Voice Films to the ...

Adam Chitwood is a former Managing Editor at Collider, where he covered film and television with a focus on interviews, features, and industry analysis. Director Stephen Frears and screenwriter D.V.

PARK CITY, Utah (Hollywood Reporter) - You can see why Fox Searchlight Pictures made the unusual purchase of "remake rights" to the British-Indian documentary, "The Bengali Detective." Its protagonist ...

Bengali detective Eken Babu is set to debut in Hindi, making the beloved character accessible to a wider audience. Actor Anirban Chakrabarti, who embodies the detective, finds the transition natural, ...

A few years ago when British filmmaker Phil Cox was teaching in Kolkata at the Satyajit Ray Film and Television Institute, he began to discover billboards for private detective agencies. He wondered ...