"Delhi Crime": Director Richie Mehta discovers the unknown face of the Nirbhaya affair

December 16th, Delhi winters, a girl, six men and a bus in motion. These are enough to bring us back to the brutal and barbaric rape committed in 2012 by a gang that has shaken the conscience of the country and compels citizens to unite and take to the streets to demand justice for Nirbhaya.

It's been six years now. And while most of us may have left the incident, Richie Mehta, director of Netflix's original 19459004 series Delhi Crime is still struggling to get out. Channeling his emotions, his anguish and his pain, he spent four years researching the Nirbhaya case

In the course of his research, he realized that all this while people were unaware of the efforts of the Delhi police to the accusers behind bars. Addressing News18, Richie said, "I have met people involved in the case and who knew more about it than we all because, when they investigated, they had a glimpse of it. Getting to know them, understanding their point of view, their emotional reaction to things and their intellectual understanding of things then became my compbad to navigate the story. "
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Supporting director Shefali Shah, who interprets the role of DCP Vartika Chaturvedi in Delhi Crime said: "As a foreigner and uninitiated, I did not know this aspect of history at all. At that point, we all blame the police. There was anger, pain, frustration and outrage from the public and all of us. We all thought that nobody was doing anything about the Nirbhaya affair, but there was actually a team of people doing something about it. "
The character of Vartika is inspired by Chhaya Sharma, the Deputy Police Commissioner of South Delhi in 2012, who led the team of more than 100 police officers in the Nirbhaya case and surprised the six guilty in less 72 hours. "The crime became a personal journey for the DCP and for me once I entered the character. She (Chhaya) captured these six men in the space of five days without even knowing their names. I realized that it was a story and an incident of loss and loss of life, but that is another woman who fought for it, so it did not happen. was not a lost battle, "said Shefali.

When we talk about Nirbhaya, there are two eminent emotions – anger and pain. Richie and Shefali realized that in the seven-part series, they could not continue to exploit them. Richie said, "There were a lot of rules in my head as I headed for the project. From the beginning, I was sure not to describe the crime in any way. This is the inquiry that is the true state here and not the case. I did not start writing until I fully understood that. Once I realized that it was a monotonous battle. Maintaining this line was a daily struggle even today. "

Shefali pointed out that there was no emotional space, that there was neither need nor desire to go out of the character. The very fact that he consumes enriched it. "There is no other way to do that than to be completely Vartika. The role gives me power, because there is a woman who is ruined but another who has risen to fight against all odds and do justice to the victim, "concluded Shefali.

Communiqué March 22 on Netflix, The crimes of Delhi are also interpreted by Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain and Rajesh Tailang in essential roles.