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Producer Bobby Bedi produced a film titled The Stoneman Murders based on these incidents. The film released on Feb 13, 2009, starring Kay Kay Menon and Arbaaz Khan. It is written and directed by Manish Gupta, the writer of the Bollywood film, Sarkar. Gupta said that his story for the movie is 40% fact and 60% fiction.
In 2011, a Bengali film named Baishe Srabon released which was directed by Srijit Mukherjee. The plot of the movie revolved around the same mysterious serial killings in Kolkata, which took place during the period of 1989. In the movie, the assassin is shown to brutally murder and the victims mostly belonged to the ignoble and the plebeian league of the society, either prostitutes, anti-socials or street dwellers. However, the climax of the movie saw the serial killer gunning himself after confessing all his atrocious acts and crudities, which in fact is a clear deviation from the actual incident.
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