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An overworked cop gets an emergency call. He reaches the location to find a young naked couple lying on the side of the street. The girl is bleeding profusely and the guy is holding on to her for dear life. The police take them to the hospital. Higher authorities are informed, and DCP Vartika Chaturvedi (a splendid Shefali Shah) assigns herself to the case. She reaches the hospital and loses her cool with the doctor on duty, who looks her straight in the eye, and says, “I know my job, ma’am.”
While Delhi Crime, the new Netflix show, might be thought of as primarily a gut-wrenching retelling of the 2012 Nirbhaya case, it is actually a gritty portrayal of the Delhi Police, who had to do their thankless jobs efficiently and apprehend these criminals. The show uses the case to break down the functioning of these workhorses — their strengths, pressures, weaknesses, perceptions, and most importantly, emotions.
The show’s creator, writer, and director, Richie Mehta isn’t afraid to pull any punches and shows the failings of the police, and the system, as is. Take, for instance, the overworked cop, with 34 years of experience in Delhi police, who decides to comfort the victim’s parents by saying that it was very cold outside and their daughter was lucky because she was too numb to feel the pain. You have a police station that suddenly goes dark because there were no funds to pay the electricity board. You also have police discussing jurisdiction while deciding who should handle the investigation.
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Avinash Ramachandran 