Netflix web series Delhi Crime on Monday won the Drama Series award at 2020 International Emmy Awards.
Richie Mehta directorial Delhi Crime, starring Shefali Shah, Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Vinod Sherawat, Denzil Smith, Gopal Dutt, Yashaswini Dayama and Jaya Bhattacharya, is a fictionalised crime drama, based on the painstaking investigation into the 2012 Delhi gang-rape.
Richie, in his acceptance speech, paid tribute to the victim and her mother.
He said, “I dedicate this award to all the women who not just endure the violence that so many men inflict on them, but are then tasked to solve the problem. Finally, to the tireless mother, and her daughter. Not a day goes by when I don’t think about you both and what the world subjected you two to. And I hope none of us ever forget that.”
Shefali Shah, who played the lead role of Vartika Chaturvedi in Delhi Crime, couldn’t control her excitement over the big win. She told indianexpress.com, “I am screaming, beaming and jumping! I have goosebumps.”
The indian Express film critic Shubhra Gupta wrote in her review, “Much of the proceedings are familiar but still a wrenching sock to the gut. When the couple is climbing into the bus, I could not, did not, want to watch. Sensibly, the camera doesn’t follow them in: we are left with our imagination, and that is so much worse. Where Delhi Crime scores is in the portrayal of a beleaguered police force, which is easy to point fingers at.”
