Shefali Shah is back as a fierce cop in the Emmy-winning Netflix series ‘Delhi Crime: Season 2’
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00:00Delhi crime and Barkata is used as an example for a path-breaking role and character and for a woman this age playing this role.
00:11Honestly, I'll tell you Delhi crime altered my life.
00:16Yeah, it did. It changed the course of my life. It became a game changer for me.
00:23People's, I've been lucky to receive appreciation all throughout but it wasn't interpreting, it wasn't translating into the kind of work I want.
00:33At my age. I mean some years ago if anybody was asked, they would say there's no way a woman in her 40s is going to become the lead.
00:43But that happened with DC. They used that as an example. Delhi crime and Barkata is used as an example.
00:50For a path-breaking role and character and for a woman this age playing this role.
00:56You know so that started translating. Now people are ready to put me up there as a lead, as a parallel lead, as one of the primary characters.
01:05Not just somebody who's a filler. When we made it, the first one and I say the same for the second one.
01:12We didn't make it with the thought that oh, this is going to showcase at Sundance or oh, Netflix is going to come on board or oh, it's going to go and win the Emmy.
01:23We made it because we were obsessed with it. We were so passionately consumed by this project. All of us, entire cast and crew that it just became something, something so special and the same goes for DC too.
01:36The first season had a crime that every, I think Indian and globally they were invested in it.
01:41The second season tackles a crime that I'm not very familiar with. So were you guys very aware that you're dealing with a crime that won't have instant connect?
01:50You know like we had, there was collective outreach for the crime that happened in the first series. The second series, I'm not so sure. How did you guys also tackle that?
01:59You know saying we don't have a direct advantage, immediate advantage, you know.
02:03No, we don't have a direct advantage but there can't and I'm so glad there should not be another Nirbhay.
02:09The fact that it was so true and honest and raw and like you very correctly said you know there was no thrill and fancy attached to it.
02:21There was no sensationalizing of the gruesome incident and it was a part of the story that I had no clue about.
02:33Because like everyone else or most of us you know when the crime happened everyone was angry and
02:43pained and frustrated and the one question that everyone was asking was why is no one doing anything about this?
02:50And when I read it or when Rishi narrated it to me, I realized there was somebody who did something about it
02:57and not just that it was a woman who got all those five guys in a span of you know in a span of those
03:04six guys in the span of five days and it was something that I just had to be a part of.
03:09It was really as simple as that. There was no, I mean he gave me a two-minute narration and I said yes.
03:16Generally in series when you look at investigators they're always glamorous
03:20but here you guys just looked overworked and underpaid.
03:23Yeah, because it was the fact. I mean they didn't go back for those five days. Nobody went home.
03:33Right. What kind of legwork did you do for that and does the series actually, do I have to watch
03:38the first season to enjoy the second season?
03:41Well, there was a lot of work that went into the research for season one and the same has gone into
03:47season two. They're both very different in the nature of crime, in the nature of procedure as
03:53well as the storytelling and the content because yes, the germ and the soul of DC doesn't waver at
04:02all but these are two different faces of Delicat to put it that way and it's not like you have to
04:12watch one to pick up the second one because the second one kind of, let's put it this way, the
04:19first one was this crime that happens and there is, there are these characters who come in and
04:27solve that crime. Over here there are the characters and a crime happens and they solve it.
04:33Something like this, there is a lot of research that is required on a script level.
04:39Hmm. For sure.
04:41I can meet four people. I can't meet 400. I can go back to records which are maybe a couple of
04:49years back. I can't go 20 years of okay records. So, the legwork done for both the shows was very
04:59strong on paper, in the script, the research put into it and DC2 is, there was this gang in the 80s
05:11and 90s called the Kachha Banyan gang which brutalized a lot of families and DC2 is a
05:18fictionalized version of that.
05:20I see, okay.
05:21But obviously, I mean you know they obviously had to research about how these guys function and
05:26what happens and it's also so during one of course, I met Chhaya Ma'am because she's the one
05:36who cracked the Nirbhaya case. DC2, it's not her and by I mean that's the thing of it that the
05:46characters become real. They become their own people and that is what has happened with
05:52Del Crime too.
05:56Actually, it already happened with DC1 because I can't, I mean I can't fit into her shoes. I can't
06:02imbibe a person after meeting her for two hours. It's not possible.
06:06True.
06:07So, we had to make these their own characters. Vartika had to become her own person.
06:21Yeah.