Beast of Bangalore: Indian Predator

After the success of Murder in a Courtroom, The Indian Predator series returns fairly quickly, with this, Beast of Bangalore, a sadistic rapist and killer that terrorised women for several years.

I really enjoyed the previous series, this one however was poor in contrast, a totally disappointing contrast. The three episodes could genuinely have been condensed down into an hour long production, this was painfully stretched out.

We actually learn very, very little Bout Umesh Reddy, his motivation, background, we just really get opinions of how his crimes affected society, it's too narrow.

I don't mean to knock the story, it's fascinating, but the way it's told here, is very poor, crimes against women, however no women are interviewed in the first two episodes, so we only get the viewpoint of the men involved in the case, there is no mention of the victims, just sketchy information about the actual miscreant.

Only episode three offers any significant input, but it really is such a dreary, lifeless production, it's guilty of the worst thing, it's boring, I couldn't binge watch it, I had to take regular breaks, as concentrating on it was hard work.

One of the worst Netflix documentary series to date, 3/10.

Indian Predator: Beast of Bangalore

A guy from a village in Karnataka, lives in Bangalore, and has a weird kind of fetish of collecting women's undergarments, his name was Umesh Reddy. He also attacked many women and assaulted them sexually. One of those women became mentally disturbed, she couldn't even say anything in her defense.

Later on, the court acquits him in most of those cases on the basis of lack of proper evidence. The evidence police found through investigation wasn't acceptable in court and the kind of evidence the court wanted could not be made available. During investigation and trial, he was successful in escaping many times from police's custody.

He gets a death sentence but finally it gets converted to life imprisonment and he is still behind bars.

This documentary series was very difficult to go through, not because it was disturbing, but more so because I was in constant disbelief of the incompetency of the Indian police system and also how the activist speakers would sneak in every now and then to make it about something else entirely.

This above everything should be about spreading awareness about these kind of psychopaths, creating a better environment for sexual victims so they feel comfortable coming forward and making sure such incompetent people are never in power of position who can blame women for such things instead of the criminals.

The best thing this documentary does is expose how poor the justice system truly is, show how the mentality of the people in India is still a century behind and Women are trapped in an invisible cage.

Not to mention the amount of times he was allowed to escape and in a way those lead to more murders. The murders he committed after running away, the blood of those victims' are in the police officers hand just as much as the killers.

Compared to the other episodes of the series, it is much weaker production. The main reason for this is the lack of sufficient evidence related to the main events. Other episodes feature interviews with the victim and, in some cases, the original defendant. Nothing such was found here. As a result, the solidity of the screenplay remains absent here. And that's why the episode is so average. This episode doesn't live up to the standards that Indian Predators series has set. Although the main accused is a gruesome and brutal murderer, rapist and abuser of women. The cinematography of the recreated dramatic parts based on true events is beautiful.

I know this case in early 2000s when this was a sensational news and so many stories about umesh reddy used to come on media. The Netflix documentary is very slow. They have recreated the videos of violence committed by umesh but they never show it properly. The faces are blurred and not shown properly even in recreated videos. What is the use of adding recreated videos if it was not meant to be shown?

The pace of the documentary is also very slow. Watching in 1.5x also feels slow. The interviews of many police officers were not needed at all. How did they solve the case, how did they gather evidence nothing was shown.