# The Buckingham Murders
**The Buckingham Murders** is a 2024 British-Indian crime drama and mystery thriller directed by [Hansal Mehta](https://www.edgepedia.org/hansal-mehta), starring [Kareena Kapoor Khan](https://www.edgepedia.org/kareena-kapoor-khan) as Jasmeet "Jazz" Bhamra, a grieving detective who investigates the murder of a schoolboy in an English town while coping with the loss of her own child.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) • [2](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-buckingham-murders) The film received a limited theatrical release on September 13, 2024, and later streamed on Netflix.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) • [3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81509546?fromWatch=true&source=35)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Director / lead | Hansal Mehta; Kareena Kapoor Khan as DS Jaspreet "Jazz" Bhamra[4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024) |
| Release | Limited theatrical release September 13, 2024; streaming on Netflix[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) • [3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81509546?fromWatch=true&source=35) |
| Runtime | 1h 47m (107 minutes) per JustWatch, Cinegraph, and Prisma; Rotten Tomatoes lists 1h 50m[2](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-buckingham-murders) • [1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) |
| Production | Balaji Telefilms, Cars on Film, and Mahana Films; producers Ekta Kapoor and Kareena Kapoor; distributor Prime Media[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) |
| Screenwriters | Aseem Arrora, Kashyap Kapoor, and Raghav Raj Kakker[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) |
| Critical reception | 79% Tomatometer from 14 reviews; 35% Popcornmeter from 50+ ratings[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) |
| Audience ratings | IMDb 5.9/10 from about 11,000 ratings (unweighted mean 7.6); TMDb 5.8[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15245240/ratings/) • [4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024) |
| Age ratings | GB 15, France September 2024, India October 2023; German FSK 16[4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024) • [6](https://www.prisma.de/streaming/The-Buckingham-Murders-mLMb9NLg0) |
## Spoilers
### Plot and setting
The story follows Jasmeet Bhamra, a police officer and single mother who recently lost her child in a shooting spree. She transfers to [High Wycombe](https://www.edgepedia.org/high-wycombe) and is assigned the case of a missing child.[2](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-buckingham-murders) Netflix's synopsis describes a teen boy's murder that rattles a quiet English town, with the grieving detective uncovering hidden hostilities beneath its idyllic surface.[3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81509546?fromWatch=true&source=35)
The missing child is a Sikh boy named Ishmeet Kohli. His father, Daljeet Kohli (played by [Ranveer Brar](https://www.edgepedia.org/ranveer-brar)), had divided his transport business with a Pakistani business partner, a split he refers to as a "batwara" (partitioning), and now calls his former friends "woh log" (those people). The prime suspects are two Muslim teenagers, and the local officer Hardy (Ash Tandon), a Gujarati non-resident Indian, holds a confirmation bias that the [Pakistanis](https://www.edgepedia.org/pakistanis) committed the crime.[7](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/theatrical/the-buckingham-murders-review-kareena-kapoor-khan-rescues-a-shaky-crime-thriller) [The Indian Express](https://www.edgepedia.org/the-indian-express) review adds that the case is set against racial tensions among residents and suspects who are patently hiding something.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders)
## Cast
Kareena Kapoor Khan leads as Detective Jaspreet "Jazz" Bhamra. The supporting cast includes Ranveer Brar as Daljeet Kohli, [Keith Allen](https://www.edgepedia.org/keith-allen-actor) as Miller, Ash Tandon as DI Hardik "Hardy" Patel, Prabhleen Sandhu as Preeti Sethi, Sarah-Jane Dias as Indrani Rai, Adwoa Akoto as DC Sharon Marks, and Rukku Nahar as Harleen.[4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024) • [1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders)
## Production
The film was produced by [Ekta Kapoor](https://www.edgepedia.org/ekta-kapoor) and Kareena Kapoor through the production companies [Balaji Telefilms](https://www.edgepedia.org/balaji-telefilms), Cars on Film, and Mahana Films, with Prime Media as distributor.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) Cinegraph lists [Balaji Motion Pictures](https://www.edgepedia.org/balaji-motion-pictures) and Mahana Films as studios.[4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024) The writing credits go to Aseem Arrora, Kashyap Kapoor, and Raghav Raj Kakker, with Shailender Sodhi as lyricist.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) • [4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024)
Sources disagree on the original language: Rotten Tomatoes lists Hindi, while [JustWatch](https://www.edgepedia.org/justwatch) and Prisma list English.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) • [2](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-buckingham-murders) • [6](https://www.prisma.de/streaming/The-Buckingham-Murders-mLMb9NLg0) NDTV describes it as an English-Hindi thriller.[8](https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/the-buckingham-murders-review-kareena-kapoor-nails-the-role-with-admirable-felicity-6554109) Netflix offers Hindi as the original audio with a Hindi dub and audio description, plus Spanish and Portuguese dubs and subtitles in several languages.[3](https://www.netflix.com/title/81509546?fromWatch=true&source=35)
## Reception
**Critics.** On Rotten Tomatoes the film holds a 79% Tomatometer from 14 reviews, while the audience Popcornmeter stands at 35% from 50+ ratings.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) Reviewers praised Kapoor Khan's performance. Saibal Chatterjee of NDTV, rating the film 3 out of 5, wrote that she "nails the role with admirable felicity" and noted the film centers on motherhood, mourning, and murder.[8](https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/the-buckingham-murders-review-kareena-kapoor-nails-the-role-with-admirable-felicity-6554109) The Hollywood Reporter India's review was titled "Kareena Kapoor Khan Rescues a Shaky Crime Thriller," judging that as a whodunit the film is bland, with a corny twist, plentiful red herrings, and a least-likely-suspect killer.[7](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/theatrical/the-buckingham-murders-review-kareena-kapoor-khan-rescues-a-shaky-crime-thriller)
Shubhra Gupta of The Indian Express gave 2.5 out of 5, observing that the film tries to knit together immigrant assimilation, an anti-LGBTQ atmosphere in conservative pockets, local resentment, drug use, and economic distress in the UK, leaving the core murder mystery uneasily nested within these strands.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) More favorable notices included Filmfare's 3.5 out of 5, which called the film the origin story of a potential franchise, and The Times of India's 3.5 out of 5, which highlighted the film's understanding of grief, isolation, and repressed anger.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) Firstpost rated it 4 out of 5, calling it immersive and gripping.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders)
**Audiences.** IMDb records a 5.9/10 rating from about 11,000 users, with an unweighted mean of 7.6; the countries with the most ratings are India, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, and Bangladesh.[5](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15245240/ratings/) TMDb lists 5.8.[4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024) The gap between the 79% critics' score and the 35% verified-audience Popcornmeter score is the film's most notable reception statistic.[1](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders) Cinegraph, aggregating audience, critics, festival, canon, talent, and box-office signals, computes a score of 3.4 out of 10 at medium confidence, with festival and box-office data missing.[4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024)
## Context in Hansal Mehta's career
Hansal Mehta's earlier films include *[Faraaz](https://www.edgepedia.org/faraaz-film)* (2023), *Chhalaang* (2020), and *Omertà* (2018).[4](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024) The Hollywood Reporter India notes that, as in *Faraaz*, Mehta poses an ideological question about what the story is really about, with the geopolitical context lying in the eyes of the beholder.[7](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/theatrical/the-buckingham-murders-review-kareena-kapoor-khan-rescues-a-shaky-crime-thriller) For Kareena Kapoor Khan, the role followed her performance in the 2023 Netflix hit *[Jaane Jaan](https://www.edgepedia.org/jaane-jaan-2023-film)*, in which she played a single mother who murders her estranged husband; NDTV describes *The Buckingham Murders* as another clean break from the persona she built her career around.[8](https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/the-buckingham-murders-review-kareena-kapoor-nails-the-role-with-admirable-felicity-6554109)
## References
1. [The Buckingham Murders, Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/the_buckingham_murders)
2. [The Buckingham Murders - watch streaming online, JustWatch](https://www.justwatch.com/uk/movie/the-buckingham-murders)
3. [The Buckingham Murders, Netflix](https://www.netflix.com/title/81509546?fromWatch=true&source=35)
4. [The Buckingham Murders, Cinegraph](https://cinegraph.org/movies/the-buckingham-murders-2024)
5. [The Buckingham Murders - Ratings, IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt15245240/ratings/)
6. [The Buckingham Murders (2024): Wer streamt es?, Prisma](https://www.prisma.de/streaming/The-Buckingham-Murders-mLMb9NLg0)
7. [The Buckingham Murders Review: Kareena Kapoor Khan Rescues a Shaky Crime Thriller, The Hollywood Reporter India](https://www.hollywoodreporterindia.com/reviews/theatrical/the-buckingham-murders-review-kareena-kapoor-khan-rescues-a-shaky-crime-thriller)
8. [The Buckingham Murders Review: Kareena Kapoor Nails The Role With Admirable Felicity, NDTV](https://www.ndtv.com/entertainment/the-buckingham-murders-review-kareena-kapoor-nails-the-role-with-admirable-felicity-6554109)
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