Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi: Frustrating Netflix true crime series retells a chilling case without any purpose
2 years, 5 months ago

Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi: Frustrating Netflix true crime series retells a chilling case without any purpose

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Over three exposition-heavy episodes, Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi turns out to be the kind of middling true-crime outing where the storytelling is far less thrilling than the story at the center of it. Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi — the latest entry to Netflix’s true crime canon — follows a frustrating template seemingly set by the streaming platform’s Indian true crime outings. Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi for instance, opens in 2006 — on the day Jha dumped Anil Mandal’s headless body in front of Tihar jail. Given that news of Jha’s eventual arrest and sentencing is publicly available —in 2013, the serial killer was given the death sentence, which was later reduced to life imprisonment — the presence of two police officers seems like an editorial oversight. Sood lets off the cops too easy, letting them reiterate time and again the difficulties that the case posed — not once does the series loudly wonder whether Jha could have been stopped before had the Delhi Police solved the 2003 murder.

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