![]() Inspired by the case files from the riot-inducing 2012 incident, “Delhi Crime Story” (picked up by Netflix out of the festival) tracks a “crime that took the city to the brink,” and it’s easy to believe a tipping point is unavoidable after two episodes. Or, in the case of the Tuesday morning Sundance premiere, they may have left the theater. If he had done it earlier, people might have turned off the show. ![]() Only later does writer/director Richie Mehta elaborate on the nauseating actions (officially labeled by the police as “heinous”) taken against the young couple. Though the first scene of “ Delhi Crime Story” shows Indian police officers picking up two beaten bodies, discarded on the side of the road without any clothes, and asking what happened, the explanation given is only half the truth: “Six men got on our bus and beat us,” the man says, wrapped in a bloody sheet. The details of the attack are held back until you can stomach it. ![]()
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