The Impossible Murder is a 2010 Bollywood

Bollywood

Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 feature film (in Hindi) released directly on DVD. The film is a locked room mystery

Locked room mystery

The locked room mystery is a sub-genre of detective fiction in which a crime—almost always murder—is committed under apparently impossible circumstances. The crime in question typically involves a crime scene that no intruder could have entered or left, e.g., a locked room...

 that is produced by The Indie Farm

The Indie Farm

The Indie Farm is a production company operating from Bollywood in Mumbai, India. In 2009, The Indie Farm produced the Hindi feature film The Impossible Murder, released directly to DVD in January 2010; touted as the first Bollywood feature film to go that route.- External links :*...

. It has been certified U/A by the Central Board of Film Certification

Central Board of Film Certification

The Central Board of Film Certification is a Government of India regulatory body and censorship board of India controlled by Ministry of Information and Broadcasting. It reviews, rates and censors motion pictures, television shows, television ads, and promotional material...

, India.

Plot

An old lady is killed in a locked room while five witnesses outside hear her scream for help. When the door is broken down, she is lying in a pool of blood with no sign of the killer or the murder weapon. The police, under pressure from the press and public, arrest the maid and she is sentenced for a crime she didn’t commit. This case is then forgotten by all concerned.

Three years later a mysterious amateur detective, Siddhartha, arrives at the village to piece together the clues once again to solve the impossible murder mystery.

Cast

Main Cast

• Tarun Singh Negi ... Siddhartha
• Swati Shetty ... Parvati
• Hemu Adhikari ... Rtd. Lt. Col. Immanuel
• Prakash Jha ... Constable Vijay
• Ajay Gatlewar ... Rajiv
• Arvind Wahi ... Inspector Raghav
• Lalitendu Paikray ... Lalit
• Prema Sakhardande ... Teresa
• Minnakshi Das ... Preeti
• Thressiama Mathew ... Maria D'Silva
• Surya Rao ... Newsreader
• Sandeep Solaskar ... Laborer

Technical specs

The film was shot on HDV

HDV

HDV is a format for recording of high-definition video on DV cassette tape. The format was originally developed by JVC and supported by Sony, Canon and Sharp...

 at a resolution of 1280x720 at 25fps with a JVC

JVC

, usually referred to as JVC, is a Japanese international consumer and professional electronics corporation based in Yokohama, Japan which was founded in 1927...

 GY-HD111E pro HD camera and mastered as an uncompressed 32-bit TIFF sequence on a hard drive. Location Sound was recorded on Sennheiser

Sennheiser

Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG is a private German audio company specializing in the design and production of a wide range of both consumer and high fidelity products, including microphones, headphones, telephony accessories, and avionics headsets for consumer, professional, and business...

 boom and wireless microphones and mixed in stereo.

Style

The film is presented as a mockumentary

Mockumentary

A mockumentary , is a type of film or television show in which fictitious events are presented in documentary format. These productions are often used to analyze or comment on current events and issues by using a fictitious setting, or to parody the documentary form itself...

 (or docudrama

Docudrama

In film, television programming and staged theatre, docudrama is a documentary-style genre that features dramatized re-enactments of actual historical events. As a neologism, the term is often confused with docufiction....

) that incorporates Live action interspersed with Interviews, Motion Graphics

Motion graphics

Motion graphics are graphics that use video footage and/or animation technology to create the illusion of motion or rotation, graphics are usually combined with audio for use in multimedia projects. Motion graphics are usually displayed via electronic media technology, but may be displayed via...

, 3D animations and Still images; brought together via a video case file or journal by the narration and presence of its detective, Siddhartha.

Release

The film was initially slated for release in May 2009. The initial idea was to have the first film in which the audience directly interacts with the filmmakers using SMS

SMS

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 to guess the murderer prior to the ending to win prizes. The film eventually released directly to DVD in January 2010; touted as the first Bollywood feature film to go that route.
The film is available on DVD via Createspace and is available on VOD at Amazon

Amazon.com

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as of March 2010.

External links

• The Making of The Impossible Murder