#Sundance 2019: Announcing the INDIE EPISODIC films: A dedicated showcase for emerging creators of independently produced episodic content for broadcast, web, and streaming platforms. The cast also includes Denzil Smith, Rasika Duggal, Rajesh Tailang and Yashaswini Dayama.Īt the festival, which will run from January 23 to February 3, the show has been listed in the Indie Episodic category. I’m extremely proud of this project,†the actor said. Which is exactly what Richie had, he had facts, years of research, honesty, sensitivity and passion. Doing a show based on a real-life incident such as this requires immense sensitivity and precision to respect the truth. €œIt’s been an incredibly consuming and gratifying experience. Shefali is playing a “no-nonsense female police commissioner who begins to uncover the horrifying details of the victim’s gang rape.â€
But it’s a topic that needs to be addressed,†Mehta said in a statement. We wanted to illustrate and explore a crime that is so incomprehensible to most people that you don’t know where to start to think about it. €œThere were numerous challenges and risks with this series. The story is centered around the action taken by the Delhi police to catch the culprits and bring justice to the victim in record time.
Directed by Indo-Canadian filmmaker Richie Mehta, the seven-episode series is based on 2012 brutal gangrape case in Delhi that had shook the whole country. Although the police manage to nab one accused, the other is still at large.Shefali Shah and Adil Hussain-starrer series, Delhi Crime Story, will have its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The body is found in a gunny bag in Nandini Layout, after which the police nab the accused using his phone details.Ĭase: The incident takes place in Subramanya Nagar where Manjula, a sex worker is murdered by a client after he refuses to wear a condom.Ĭase: Ramya, a one-year-old baby, is kidnapped from Hebbal flyover, and sold by two abductors. The Bengaluru police trace the accused at Port Blair and arrest her.Ĭase: A husband and wife duo plots the murder of Santosh, who is known to extort money and ask for sexual affairs. This reflects the actual moments that we go through as police officers.”Ĭase: An angry daughter kills her mother before attacking her brother in KR Puram, over a growing financial crisis in her family. In the kidnapping case, one of the lady sub-inspectors, Roopa, was more worried about the child than the parents. The series is a realistic approach on how a crime is solved without any filters added to it. We managed to solve two out of the three cases. Shashi Kumar IPS, who was a supervisory officer for three of the four cases featured in the series, says, “All three were critical cases in my jurisdiction.
But then, we got used to it after a few weeks,” says Anucheth, who was the deputy commissioner of police (Mahadevapura zone) in February 2020 when the series was filmed. We were camera-conscious in the beginning and a little hesitant to give out our modus operandi. The filmmakers tagged along with us from the crime scene till the filing of a chargesheet. “A daughter killing her mother is just unimaginable. IPS officer MN Anucheth, DCP, Bengaluru Central division, who is featured in the series involving the murder of a mother by her daughter, believes that the series is one of its kind.
From tracking bus tickets to the e-commerce purchases of the accused, the series will be an eye-opener on how the police has harnessed the power of technology to crack cases.” Most often, crime thrillers show the razzmatazz of the police with hardly anyone portraying their emotional side. “This series is significant because people need to know how the police managed to crack investigations with such limited resources. It was during the tenure of then police commissioner of Bengaluru Bhaskar Rao that the show was shot in January 2020. Interestingly, the show only revolves around cases handled by the Bengaluru City Police. So far, western crime-thrillers have dominated OTT platforms, so this series stands out for its focus on India.