Based on the CWA Gold Dagger Award-winning novel by H.R.F Keating, The Perfect Murder follows inspector Ghote (Naseeruddin Shah) of the Bombay police as he pursues his most perplexing case: a savage attack on a rich industrialist"s private secretary. With the help of a visiting Swedish criminologist (Stellan Skarsgård), Ghote edges closer to the truth, and soon discovers he may not be dealing with murder at all, but something far more complex and profitable.