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Shefali Shah, Tanuj Chopra On DCP Vartika’s Journey, Hot Button Social Issues And Pandemic Impact In ‘Delhi Crime’ Season 2

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They came for the crime but stayed for the characters, is how the cast and crew of Netflix’s hit series Delhi Crime summarize the outsized success of the show’s first season.Delhi Crime Season 2 follows those same characters – Shefali Shah’s DCP Vartika Chaturvedi, younger cop Neeti Singh (Rasika Dugal) and right-hand man Bhupendra Singh (Rajesh Tailang) – as they tackle a series of brutal murders of senior citizens in the middle-class neighbourhoods of South Delhi.With US-based indie filmmaker Tanuj Chopra (Punching At The Sun, Staycation) on board as showrunner and director, working with a team of Indian writers, the series is loosely based on the Kacha-Baniyan gang murders in North India in the 1990s, but is not an exact replica of a particular crime as with the first series.Delhi Crime Season 1, written and directed by Canadian filmmaker Richie Mehta, followed the police’s hunt for the culprits of a real-life gang rape and murder in South Delhi in 2012, that shocked India and the world due to its brutality.

The heavily-researched series followed the original case closely (the police characters were fictional but inspired by real people) and was praised for its realism and sensitivity, winning a string of awards including an Emmy for best international drama in 2020.“When Richie handed me his notes, the question was where do I take this material?” says Chopra, adding that Netflix brought him on board because the raw, hand-held, fast-paced nature of his indie films matched the tone of the show.“My hope was that we’d find a way to grow the show and pull in an audience that didn’t see the first season, perhaps because they couldn’t take the material, or did see it because they were familiar with the crime, and then

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