Delhi Crime

Asian Academy Creative Awards fete ‘Delhi Crime’, ‘World’s Got Talent’

Richie Mehta’s Netflix series Delhi Crime picked up four gongs at the Asian Academy Creative Awards (AAAs) in Singapore. The annual awards show, which held ceremonies on 5 and 6 December, saw the seven-part drama – which dramatises India’s notorious 2012 gang-rape case – win Best Drama Series, Best Original Programme by a Streamer/OTT, Best […]

Writer’s Room: Richie Mehta. Turning timeline into takes for ‘Delhi Crime’

Writer-director Richie Mehta on how he deconstructed India’s notorious 2012 gang-rape case for a seven-part drama series for Netflix Delhi Crime has been a long, involved and all-encompassing journey. It began in 2013 as a conversation with the retired police commissioner in Delhi, Mr. Neeraj Kumar, who told me about the investigation following the heinous […]