The show’s most violent moments, in fact, are all dependant on your memory of the time, and your ability to empathise with the victim, often through her own words.
Mehta, the Indo-Canadian filmmaker behind movies such as Amal and Siddarth, makes the honourable decision to not show the incident at all. Delhi Crime is gut-wrenching, stylishly directed, passionately performed, and most important, not at all exploitative. This is unfortunate, because it takes away from what is easily one of the best Indian shows Netflix has produced, and perhaps the most stunning true-crime drama I have seen in months.
Some of the more controversial aspects of the investigation, particularly the reported unprovoked attack on peaceful protesters at India Gate, are explained and other aspects that went unnoticed, like the minor suspect being charged as a minor (and not as an adult), are highlighted. There were times when I was convinced certain scenes were nothing but compromises, added in exchange of the force’s cooperation and transparency. Those looking for an insight into the systemic problems of the Delhi Police are likely to be disappointed by the show’s unabashed defensiveness in its portrayal of the force. A lot was written about its handling of the case - it was praised for having nabbed the culprits in a matter of days and filing a detailed and bulletproof chargesheet that was instrumental in their sentencing, but it was also questioned about its ability to prevent such crimes, and criticised for letting red tape get in the way of the investigation.
The Delhi Police, like most law enforcement organisations around the world, is burdened by a reputation as complicated as that of the city it serves to protect. But it is told from the unlikely perspective of the police - which is both refreshing and problematic. Watch an interview with Delhi Crime’s Shefali Shah and Richie Mehta hereĭelhi Crime is set in the aftermath of the heinous 2012 gang rape case that made headlines all over and cemented the city’s reputation as the ‘Rape Capital of the World’. But in the December of 2012, we were confronted firsthand by what Delhi is capable of - in good ways and bad. It is a perspective that can normally only be observed from a distance, by outsiders less likely to be distracted by the city’s overwhelming intensity, and therefore better equipped to cut through the noise. Richie Mehta, creator, writer and director of the new Indian Netflix original, Delhi Crime, taps into this complex reputation that the capital has been cursed by, and opens his show with cold aerial shots of the city, straight out of Blade Runner. Lives are lost to the cold, among those who walk the streets are miscreants and monsters, but this great city, it endures. Tempers flare easily, viruses circulate like the plague. An ominous smog hangs in the air, limp like the hopes and dreams of its people. We wheeze in the fumes of toxicity and rage. Cast - Shefali Shah, Rasika Dugal, Rajesh Tailang, Adil Hussain
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