in the editorials of newspapers and websites, and virtually all news programmes and talk shows.

More than six years after that crucial turning point in India's collective consciousness, filmmaker Richie Mehta looks to revisit the case in Delhi Crime, which was picked up by Netflix at Sundance Film Festival 2019. The first two episodes of the Indo-Canadian writer-director's seven-part docudrama series premiered at Sundance Film Festival on 29 January and there was a moment of stunned silence before the crowd erupted into a round of applause at Prospector Square Theatre in Park City, Utah.

Brilliantly constructed and heartrendingly performed, Delhi Crime revisits events from the day of the sadistic crime to the final arrest, spanning a period of six days (16-21 December). It chronicles how a top Delhi police officialnamed Vartika Chaturvedi (played by Shefali Shah and partly based on DCP South Delhi Chhaya Sharma) leads a special task force to nab the six perpetrators, amid mounting media and political pressure — and a demoralised teenage daughter eager to leave a country that doesn't respect its women.

In a Q&A following the series premiere at Sundance, Mehta, who was in Delhi during the crime and the subsequent protests, reveals he had to go through over 1000 pages of documents and case files in a period of six months. He spoke to various police officers involved in the investigation over a course of year and a half. "The first year of research, I became anti-social. I have a nightmare almost every night," admits Mehta.

Delhi Crime skillfully interweaves fact and