In Hindi films dealing with the topic of rape, there is a trend of replacing men with women as avengers. The documentary featured an interview with Mukesh Singh, one of the convicts who was executed on Friday, confessing to the crime. The incident was also the focus of British filmmaker Leslee Udwin''s documentary "India''s Daughter", which was banned in India. "We weren''t harnessing the pain, we were harnessing the strength of being able to catch the culprits," actor Shefali Shah, who fronted the critically-acclaimed show, had said.
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"I was very clear from the beginning that I didn''t want to showcase the rape scene because I wanted the series to be about the procedure, not the crime," the “Delhi Crimes” director said. While the former is a British series set in a fictional English town in Dorset, the latter is an American show based on a 2015 news article.Ĭanadian Indian filmmaker Richie Mehta, in an earlier interview to PTI, said he did not want to depict the crime in the series neither in visuals nor audio form.
"Delhi Crime" is probably the only fictionalised account that engaged with the topic in a sensitive yet matter-of-fact approach, a narrative style that "Broadchurch" and "Unbelievable" employed to critical acclaim. Of the six accused, one allegedly committed suicide in Tihar jail while another, a juvenile, a juvenile, is out after serving a three-year sentence. The Decemgangrape, which sparked nationwide protests and led to a change in India’s rape laws, also inspired introspective documentaries and a Netflix series "Delhi Crime" focusing on the police investigation into the crime, There are so many movies like that," Ausaja told PTI. "It''s always just an element of the narrative and to draw the revenge story forward… in ''Andha Kanoon'', for instance, Rajinikanth''s sister was raped and then the revenge story goes forward. In most cases, the plot becomes more about the ''hero'' extracting revenge from the bad guys. In film historian S M M Ausaja’s view, only a few Hindi films focus on the crime. Bollywood has presented rape as a relationship between men: if a woman is raped, it is the men of the family who are insulted because (they feel) they have been unable to ''protect'' the women of the family," he explained. "There is a long history to this, particularly relating to the division between ''good'' and ''bad'' women where rape was frequently presented as an instrument of control. Masculinity is an important narrative device in Bollywood cinema: strong masculinity and the threats to it," sociologist Sanjay Srivastava told PTI. This concept is known as ''fridging'' in cinema. And while things have changed with films such as “Pink", "Thappad" and the post #MeToo-set "Guilty" that deal with consent, domestic violence and society''s treatment of rape survivors, sexual violence against women is still used as a tool to forward the story of the protagonist, mostly male, in films as recent as "Kaabil" and "Simmba".
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