Aspiring female cops are ridiculed and held back in this chauvinistic culture. Street level patrols are overworked, with officers dozing off at their posts, and subject to offers of bribes and drugs. The police are horribly underfunded, as station lights flicker with spotty electricity. Instead, Mehta focuses on the social and governance issues that permitted this crime to occur.
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Thankfully, the series doesn’t get too graphic with the rape itself, which would seem exploitative if not totally gruesome and nauseating. That’s precisely what Mehta succeeded in doing by carefully, and respectfully, deconstructing the anatomy of this crime with both precision and compassion. Imagine if you could gain an understanding of this crime through the prism of a police drama such as “The Night Of” or “The Wire.” Then, the answers could emerge, piece by piece, clue by clue, for viewers who have the constitution to sit through all seven episodes.
Riots soon erupted in the streets of Delhi.Īt a screening at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, Indian Canadian director Richie Mehta told the audience that he had nightmares every single night since he started work on the series “Delhi Crime Story” six years ago. She died two weeks later from her extensive internal injuries. Police later found their naked bloody bodies huddled together in a ditch along the side of the road. Six men assaulted her and raped her with an iron rod on a moving bus. Surely you must remember in December 2012 when the news reported the horrific gang rape of 23-year-old Jyoti Singh and the beating of her male date on a bus in Delhi, India.
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