India, Oct. 10 -- Twenty minutes into Lord Curzon Ki Haveli, I found myself questioning the point of it all. The film opens by thanking Beethoven, but what follows feels more like cacophony than symphony. Murder mysteries are a tricky genre, especially today when OTT has overexposed us to content from around the world. To keep viewers distracted enough to not be able to guess the killer till the end, is a tall order for any whodunit.

The story here revolves around a couple, Rohit (Arjun Mathur) and Sanya (Zoha Rahman), who invite her friend Ira (Rasika Dugal) and her husband Basuki Nath (Paresh Pahuja) over for drinks. Basuki soon goes berserk, convinced the hosts are hiding something in a trunk. The evening turns darker with each passin...