Crime Stories: India Detectives

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.

At last a Kannada Documentary series!

There are 4 episodes and every episode is different from the other. We do see glimpses of the police's personal lives too. Every case is different from each other and is only rooted to Bangalore.

The episodes aren't great or surprising or thrilling and is made in a very simple straight forward way. The scenery of Bangalore is something that is not shown in movies. Kannada directors go outside Karnataka to shoot while Bollywood directors' version of South India is Chennai, Hyderabad and Kerala. Shame.

As for being real is concerned, I did find many words were put into the police or victim's mouths. The subtitles weren't accurate. I doubt the makers are even Indians which wouldn't have been a problem but after watching BBC's Nirbhaya documentary, I am sure that foreigners making Indian films/ documentaries is only to demean India and nothing else.

A great show depicting how crime happens gets reported, investigated, and ultimately solved in various police provinces throughout India!

I hate that there's only 4 episodes! 😪

It definitely could have been done better. But overall, this is a good watch. Each episode is independent and reveals how humans kill for very little. Sad.

Along with the crime and the investigation, they show the officers and try get a peak into their lives. This feels forced upon the viewers and i did not like this part.

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.