Bohurupi: The Golden Daku Bangla Movie Review & Rating: “The Bikram of the past worked against the government. Now he joins hands with people in the government to work against the government,” declares Shiboprosad Mukherjee’s conman Bikram Pramanik dramatically to his new bête noire, Inspector-in-Charge Ayan Bannerjee (Jisshu Sengupta), during one of their many heated exchanges. The dialogue aptly sums up the direction the franchise has taken this time around.

In the follow-up to the 2024 Bangla blockbuster Bohurupi, Bikram’s misdemeanours are no longer solely about fulfilling personal objectives. The subaltern antihero now finds himself entangled in a system where corruption runs deeper than one might imagine.

The morally abstruse world of Bohurupi is marked by an underlying sense of unease, lending its thriller elements a touch of dark humour. Writer-director duo Nandita Roy and Shiboprosad Mukherjee has always presented the conman Bikram as a wronged underdog.…