Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi

I had high expectations from this one. Throughout the series, I felt as if I am being thrown from one storyline to another, as a result, I could not connect with the series. Alas! A golden opportunity to present a "desi serial killer" in an engaging manner goes down the drain.

Although the cinematic aesthetics are done quite well.

Netflix ultimately brings the serial killer craze to India's capital with a somewhat lesser known case of a man targeting the police and judicial systems with a string of murders. This three-part documentary expounds his brutal deeds, while subtly (and effectively) showcasing the oversight of the Delhi police in deciphering and catching the perpetrator. The larger chunk of essential information lies in the first couple of episodes, while the third serves as a filler-piece except for the portion where the family members of a victim are interviewed.

But when you look at the work as a whole, while I appreciate Ayesha Sood's hard-boiled approach, it lacks the memorability. The evidences presented are scarce, and since we don't get to hear any insights from the criminal himself (except for already-published, short TV interviews) or his immediate family, it is difficult to objectively read the guy. Some of his victims are barely even mentioned to add to his menacing mystique. At an overall viewing duration of 2 hours, it's always worth catching if true crime interests you!

Such an interesting crime story narrated in the most snooze worthy way really disappointed me.

It started off very well but once the 2nd episode began, i started to lose interest solely because of the long narrations going on . The narrations were not intersting enough and those narrating had no fizz factor in their voices and modulations to hold your attention. It was just like they were reading out the paragraphs from their script.

2hrs was way too long for a crime like this and could have been shortened to a 1hr 20 mins documentary. House of Burari was way more interesting than this, solely because of an interesting narrative and the fact that the incident itself was something out of the world stuff but here, when you ultimately know why and how he is commiting the crimes, it felt like any other you have seen in crime patrol and on top of that, they give lengthy explanations to all things making me lose interest.

This a show that proves how incompetent Indian criminal system is - case would have solved mid way, all they had to do is install a Cctv camera at the spot but instead they couldn't even do that. Any one from foreign watching this will laugh on this that half of crime solves in India if they simply install CCtv cameras. It even shows police is not even trained to speak to criminals, rather they were seen questioning him nonsensical way. A country with this dense population should have huge numbers of cctv. Its pathetic to watch it clearly the criminal was highlighting the basic common sense faults of our police. For god sake Install a cctv camera.

Plot of the story is good but stretched tooo much and bad direction. This could have been a better outcome if it were shown with some more data. Only letter is evidence and nothing.