Crime Stories: India Detectives

I love crime documentaries and I really enjoyed this documentary. Not because it' about crime, but it allows the viewer to see how things work in India and THAT was really interesting too see. This documentary pushes you to see things with an open mind, from a different perspective and accept that certain things don't go the way we are used to it in a developed democratic country which we all take for granted nowadays. This documentary is eye-opening and I wish they would make more of this documentaries in other, underdeveloped countries.

Sadly and ironically, rather than being a good crime investigation, the series exposes the horrible approach followed by the agencies mainly the Police in crime investigations in metro cities. Imagine the situation in villages.

People are picked up and rounded up at the police station without any substantial suspicion/proof and legal warrant even at the night and thrashed and forcefully made to admit the crime. Sad state of Human rights affair.

Most of the Police personnels have the sickening mentality of treating people like animals. The junior the personnel the more bad-mouthed he or she is. I hope the police academy thinks of teaching public speaking skills to these closed-minded goons. One can observe the sheer narrow mindedness and laughable opinions of these policemen in the series itself. Sadly, it is a reality in India. Very Long way to go for the police personnels before thay start behaving like human beings.

The police boasts as if they have brought about heaven and hell to solve a case. It's just cctv recording in the name of investigations. A woman officer has sickening opinions towards sexworkers. Another police officer tells innocent people who are detained for no reason that they should be thankful to him that they are free now.

No matter if a person is victim, minor, suspect, no data privacy is followed in the episodes. Very sad and worrisome. This series Just angers me more. Couldn't take it more after 2 episodes.

-1 stars on Netflix for not promoting this amazing piece of work. The cinematography, editing, background score and direction is as good as documentaries made in Hollywood. The stories are ofcourse hand picked and there are obvious biases visible throughout. However, whatever was convered, was done brilliantly.

This is not any game changing, eye opening documentary. At best this might be an attempt to humanize men and women of police force who we (indians) are mostly scared of and keep a distance. That being said, it achieves that objective nicely.

There are some disturbing scenes, narration, police brutality (sugar coated) and a heart breaking case on last episode and so it might not be for everyone. It hit me hard because it was so close to home.

The two negatives I can say are, the police are self aware of the camera and crew present in all scenes. Their behaviour is toned down except for couple of officers who probably didn't care. At first I thought they were bad actors hired to recreate crime scenes like in crime patrol episode. And another negative is lack of any kind of promotion from Netflix.

I am glad I saw this and I appreciate all the men and women of our police force who honestly want to do good for the citizens and care about justice. You should watch it too.

So the policewoman hates sex workers and cannot touch them but wouldn't blame the men paying the sex workers. The trousers define if you're a student or not. No wonder this country is doomed.

Four episodes, four crimes, one great series, we've all seen countless cop shows from The US, and for me UK based ones also, so it was fascinating to see how things are done in India.

It's a very gritty, incredibly well made series, with the focus very much on the crimes, and those involved, you will see very many cultural differences, but one thing that's very clear, these cops stop at nothing to get to the truth, and that they do.

The Detectives demand respect, and they get it, there is no messing around, they're direct, and straight to the point, although some of the tactics may be a little surprising.

It's very nicely produced, and very well made, at no point did I feel as though they had overdone things.

I loved the first three episodes, I didn't care for the fourth quite so much, I only hope we get to see more. 8/10.