The Perfect Murder
Directed by	Zafar Hai
Produced by	Ismail Merchant
Written by	HRF Keating (screenplay)
Starring	Stellan Skarsgård Naseeruddin Shah Ratna Pathak Madhur Jaffrey Amjad Khan
Music by	Richard Robbins
Release date(s)	1988
Running time	90 mins
Country
Language	English

The Perfect Murder is a 1988 English language Indian film directed by Zafar Hai and produced by Merchant-Ivory. The film is based on the 1964 novel The Perfect Murder by British crime fiction writer HRF Keating and stars Naseeruddin Shah as Inspector Ghote, the leading character in Keating's novels. Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård as well as many noted Indian actors such as Madhur Jaffrey, Amjad Khan, Dalip Tahil, Ratna Pathak, Annu Kapoor and Johnny Walker also appear in the film.

[edit] Cast

• Naseeruddin Shah as Inspector Ghote
• Stellan Skarsgård as Axel Svensson
• Amjad Khan as Lala Heera Lal
• Madhur Jaffrey as Mrs. Lal
• Annu Kapoor as Tiny Man
• Archana Puran Singh as Miss Twinkle
• Dalip Tahil as Dilip Lal
• Dinshaw Daji as Mr. Perfect
• Johnny Walker as Jain
• Mohan Agashe as A.C.P. Samant
• Rajesh Vivek as Zero Police
• Ratna Pathak as Pratima Ghote (as Ratna Pathak Shah)
• Salim Ghouse as Caste-Marks Goonda
• Sameer Kakkad as Felix Sousa
• Vinod Nagpal as Minister

[edit] External links

• The Perfect Murder at IMDB

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