The Stoneman Murders

The Stoneman Murders is a 2009 Indian Suspense Thriller film based on the real life Stoneman serial killings that made headlines in the early 1980s in Bombay. The hapless victims of the mystery killer, who was never caught, were footpath dwellers in Bombay. They were stoned to death in their sleep. The movie weaves fiction around reality in an attempt to provide answers to the questions around the case. The Stoneman Murders was director Manish Guptas first fulllength feature film.

Sanjay contemplates a possible danger to his wife asks her to leave for her village. He rushes to the station to get her rail ticket where he encounters. Before he can catch him Kedar shoots him thinking him to be the killer. Sanjay escapes and the incident brings him closer to his wife. He suspects the killer to be a policeman who is a tribal performing an impotency ritual and asks the informer to tell this to Satam. Kamle Virendra Saxena turns out to be the killer and attacks Sanjay, but both are saved by the police. Kamble is arrested and the matter is closed. In the end it is shown that the man with a voice similar to Satam is performing a ritual and asks a person to give him nine offerings of humans and this time to kill people in Calcutta.The research that went into the scripting of The Stoneman Murders involved an intensive search for newspaper articles dating to 1983 when the killings took place. The director Manish Gupta and his team combed the Asiatic Library, the Government Archival Library at Elphinstone College, the Times of India archives and the archival departments of Indian Express, Maharashtra Times, Navbharat Times and other newspapers. Before this, the preliminary research done by the director was over the internet where a few articles about the Stoneman had been posted. The dates obtained from the internet were later used to carry out the more detailed research in the libraries and newspaper archives. ........

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