#Delhi crime case series

There's Vartika Chaturvedi (Shefali Shah, from Dil Dhadakne Do), the DCP of South District, who hails from an upper middle-class family. The makers have changed everyone's names. The show gets right into it, from the moment the first responders of the law arrive on the scene, before jumping back earlier in the day to set up its ensemble. It doesn't help that the judicial system is falling behind - the Nirbhaya case resulted in new stricter laws and fast-track courts, but the victim's father maintains that enough hasn't been done - which drags cases for years, during which victims and witnesses routinely drop out.Дespite its limited scope, Delhi Crime touches upon some of that, for what a show told from the perspective of the Delhi Police can.

#Delhi crime case series

In reality, most rape survivors in India face a series of problems, from faults on the forensic and police investigation fronts, some of it brought on by budget shortfalls, which then contributes into a weak prosecution argument. Of course, the Nirbhaya case was an exception in terms of prosecution of rape cases. That is in stark contrast to the police's public image in India, and in some ways, it's comforting and empowering to see a force that seems to be both willing and competent. With each episode covering a day's events or less, it gives Delhi Crime the immediacy of something like the Kiefer Sutherland-starrer series 24, showcasing how the Delhi Police responded in a swift manner and nabbed all six suspects in less than a week. That time constraint naturally brings a sense of urgency to the series.

The seven-episode first season of Delhi Crime - it has been renewed for a second - offers a fictionalised look at the police investigation, based on case files, chronicling the six days from the day of the incident: December 16-21, 2012. Neeraj Kumar, Delhi's then-Commissioner of Police, served as a story consultant on Delhi Crime, and Mehta has thanked Chhaya Sharma, the then-DCP of South Delhi, after whom the show's protagonist is modelled. It has been created, written and directed by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Richie Mehta, best known for indie entries Amal and Siddharth, who developed Delhi Crime with the help of British producer-writers Laurence Bowen (My Life as a Popat) and Toby Bruce. Netflix's new police procedural anthology series - Delhi Crime, out now - comes closest, being a joint production of Mumbai-based, digital-focused Golden Karavan, and Crazy Rich Asians-helmer Ivanhoe Pictures. The BBC documentary in 2015, India's Daughter, that made waves remains the most high-profile account, aside from a 2013 indie Bengali film, Nirbhoya, and Deepa Mehta's 2016 film, Anatomy of Violence, which have explored the larger maladies surrounding it. Given the widespread international attention to and local impact of the Nirbhaya case, in which a young woman was gang raped and brutally assaulted by six men in Delhi in late 2012, it's curious that there hasn't been a single mainstream effort by Indian producers to recount the tragedy, the indelible effect it left on the Indian consciousness, and its importance in the social and political spheres of the country.