There are some great series on various OTT platforms which are binge watched thus becoming viral by word of mouth and it is then that their creators wanting to cash in on this popularity bombard you with season after season of the same series. Delhi Crime Season 3 review….
This phenomenon which was visible in English (Hollywood) serials on Prime or Netflix has now hit the Indian OTT community too, of late a few Hindi series too have had successful runs, this culminated in seasons, raking in the moolah for the makers and the OTT platforms alike. Series like Panchayat, Maharani, Family man, Mirzapur have been well liked and appreciated in their subsequent seasons on different platforms. The subscribing audience waits with a bated breath for these well made dramas and clamour for a new season of binge watching.
There are three kinds of series the first one which takes the story forward in subsequent seasons, the second type which tells the back story of some characters and the third kind – here the protagonists remain the same however a new unrelated story is told.
Delhi Crime now streaming as a third season on Netflix with six episodes falls in the third category. Season 3 is inspired by the Baby Falak case from 2012 and focuses on a human trafficking operation that expands Chaturvedi’s investigation beyond Delhi. Huma Qureshi joins the cast as the mastermind behind the trafficking organization. Inspired by the Delhi police files this story is about human trafficking, the protagonists again being Vartika Chaturvedi played by Shefali Chhaya with her team of dedicated cops viz. Rajesh Telang and Rasika Duggal who reprise their roles as Bhupinder Singh ‘Bhupi’ and Neeti Singh respectively, Chaaya is well grounded in her avatar and so are her cop collaborators. They appear pleasing to the eye.
The antagonist of Delhi Crime Season 3 is played by Human Qureshi, who like Sanjeev Kumar in his good old days, is trying to perfect the art of playing an elder. She is also trying to perfect dialects of North India and accents of various dimensions like the one she did with Bhojpuri in the Maharani series on Sony, here she is seen experimenting with Hariyanvi which is a bit cringe and not to her comfort.
However she has done well for herself along with her motley crew of female allurers including Mita Vashisht and the beautiful Sayani Gupta last seen in Four More Shots Please!
Though the story is inspired by true events, all the cops shown are overly empathetical, giving precedence to human interactions then to police work. This appears to be the under current of the whole series, it could be to show that cops are human too or an image makeover exercise.
Now for positives, as this is a Netflix series it is naturally well-crafted and big budgeted. The final verdict – It keeps your interest in sections with one awaiting the final outcome, the series is engrossing however sags in between and then runs into a stretched climax.
Streaming on NETFLIX.
– Review by PAWAN GUPTA
Cast of Delhi Crime 3:
Shefali Shah as DCP/DIG Vartika Chaturvedi IPS
Huma Qureshi as Meena Choudhary /Badi Didi
Sayani Gupta as Kusum
Rajesh Tailang as Inspector Bhupendra Singh
Rasika Dugal as ACP Neeti Singh IPS
Mita Vashisht – Kalyani (Girls trainer)
Denzil Smith as ADDL. CP Vishal Chaturvedi, Vartika’s husband
Yashaswini Dayama as Chandni Chaturvedi, Vartika and Vishal’s daughter
Anurag Arora as Sub-Inspector Jairaj Singh
Gopal Datt as Sudhir Kumar
Sidharth Bhardwaj as SHO Shubhash Gupta
Jaya Bhattacharya as Sub-Inspector Vimla Bharadwaj
Aakash Dahiya as Devinder, Neeti’s ex-husband
Yukti Thareja as inspector Simran Masih
Credits of Delhi Crime 3:
Production companies – Golden Karavan, Ivanhoe Productions, FilmKaravan, Poor Man’s Productions, Vipin Agnihotri
Created by Richie Mehta
Directed by Tanuj Chopra
Composer – Ceiri Torjussen
Executive producers – Aaron Kaplan, Jeff Sagansky, Florence Sloan, Apoorva Bakshi, Pooja Kohli, Sanjay Bachani, John Penotti, Kilian Kerwin, Michael Hogan
Cinematography – Johan Heurlin Aidt, David Bolen
Editor – Beverly Mills
