Netflix acquires Crime from Delhi by Richie Mehta as Next Original Series from India, sets the release date for March
Netflix has acquired Delhi Crime, a series of seven-part police thriller from Indian-Canadian director and writer Richie Mehta (Amal, Siddharth), a few hours before its premiere at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and announced a release date for its members: March 22, 2019. The first Delhi Crime season is "inspired and followed by the notorious December 2012 investigation by the Delhi Police in a devastating rape of a girl who reverberated throughout India and in the world. Over seven long episodes, Delhi Crime captures the complexities of scrutiny, the emotional number of the research team and its determination to bring the perpetrators to justice in a thin environment.
Delhi Crime stars Shefali Shah (police policeman) Vartika Chaturvedi, along with Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, Hotel Salvation), Denzil Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Rasika Dugal (Mirzapur, Manto), Rajesh Tailang (Siddharth, Day of Selection), and Yashaswini Dayama (Dear Zindagi, The Odds). It was produced based on Mumbai, focused on digital, Caravan of Gold and Crazy Rich Asians, Ivanhoe Pictures. Aaron Kaplan, Jeff Sagansky, Florence Sloan, Apoorva Bakshi, Pooja Kohli, and Sanjay Bachani were the executive producers, along with John Penotti, Kilian Kerwin and Michael Hogan for Ivanhoe Pictures, along with Robert Friedland, Sidney Kimmel, and Brian Kornreich. producers.
Deadline affirms that Netflix has taken Delhi Crime with an order of two seasons, and the second season "will follow many of the same characters that police face a new crime." Originally titled "Delhi Crime Story", possibly influenced by the American Crime Story, Delhi Crime opens on Tuesday, January 29 in the Indie Episode section of Sundance in Park City, Utah. The first Mehta film, Amal, was nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards (Canada equivalent to the Oscars and the Emmys) and won several awards at the festival circuit. His latest feature film, Siddharth, picked up three Screen Awards nominations after winning a couple of festival awards.
"The Delhi Crime confrontation was a personally transformative journey, addressing all the individuals involved, portraying the paths the police took along the investigation and listening to the determination that the case was closed, despite the severe limitations," said Mehta in a prepared statement. "I hope we can provide context, catharsis and open up once again a difficult conversation that must be had about the forces that have allowed this brutality."
Mehta added that more than six years of investigation were the manufacture of Delhi Crime, that was rolled in the place in New Delhi. The show came after Mehta had a conversation with Neeraj Kumar, a former Delhi Police Commissioner, who "presented him to the research team and offered access to hundreds of pages of legal documents that were prepared as part of the investigation."
"Delhi Crime is an important story with sensitivity and responsibility, and we are honored to help bring this series to Indian and global members," said Simran Sethi, Netflix's international original director. "It is honest and emotional and powerful. This show brings a much-needed lens to the lived reality of women around the world. See this series is an experience that affects us and we are sure it will be as significant as an experience for the Netflix audience as for us ".
Delhi Crime will launch on March 22, 2019, on Netflix worldwide.
Delhi Crime stars Shefali Shah (police policeman) Vartika Chaturvedi, along with Adil Hussain (Life of Pi, Hotel Salvation), Denzil Smith (The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel), Rasika Dugal (Mirzapur, Manto), Rajesh Tailang (Siddharth, Day of Selection), and Yashaswini Dayama (Dear Zindagi, The Odds). It was produced based on Mumbai, focused on digital, Caravan of Gold and Crazy Rich Asians, Ivanhoe Pictures. Aaron Kaplan, Jeff Sagansky, Florence Sloan, Apoorva Bakshi, Pooja Kohli, and Sanjay Bachani were the executive producers, along with John Penotti, Kilian Kerwin and Michael Hogan for Ivanhoe Pictures, along with Robert Friedland, Sidney Kimmel, and Brian Kornreich. producers.
Deadline affirms that Netflix has taken Delhi Crime with an order of two seasons, and the second season "will follow many of the same characters that police face a new crime." Originally titled "Delhi Crime Story", possibly influenced by the American Crime Story, Delhi Crime opens on Tuesday, January 29 in the Indie Episode section of Sundance in Park City, Utah. The first Mehta film, Amal, was nominated for six Canadian Screen Awards (Canada equivalent to the Oscars and the Emmys) and won several awards at the festival circuit. His latest feature film, Siddharth, picked up three Screen Awards nominations after winning a couple of festival awards.
"The Delhi Crime confrontation was a personally transformative journey, addressing all the individuals involved, portraying the paths the police took along the investigation and listening to the determination that the case was closed, despite the severe limitations," said Mehta in a prepared statement. "I hope we can provide context, catharsis and open up once again a difficult conversation that must be had about the forces that have allowed this brutality."
Mehta added that more than six years of investigation were the manufacture of Delhi Crime, that was rolled in the place in New Delhi. The show came after Mehta had a conversation with Neeraj Kumar, a former Delhi Police Commissioner, who "presented him to the research team and offered access to hundreds of pages of legal documents that were prepared as part of the investigation."
"Delhi Crime is an important story with sensitivity and responsibility, and we are honored to help bring this series to Indian and global members," said Simran Sethi, Netflix's international original director. "It is honest and emotional and powerful. This show brings a much-needed lens to the lived reality of women around the world. See this series is an experience that affects us and we are sure it will be as significant as an experience for the Netflix audience as for us ".
Delhi Crime will launch on March 22, 2019, on Netflix worldwide.
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