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"Not only the issues on the surface of women's rights and safety and patriarchy and what led to that kind of intense violence - all those things which were very much on the forefront of the discourse - but other things like the class system and the entrenched leftovers from not just the British but kind of a 3,000-year-old tradition of isolation, segregation in society, gender biases. "Things I've been dealing with my whole life in the work, it all came together in this," said Mehta.
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The series explores issues of corruption and "pervasive cultural misogyny" and asks: "In a country with a history of denial and victim blaming, is due process possible?" Mehta's series looks at the obstacles facing the under-resourced police officers who worked on the case, particularly a deputy female commissioner who led the investigation to catch the six accused gang rapists.
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She died two weeks later as a result of horrific injuries sustained in the attack. The 23-year-old was raped and beaten by six men for hours on a moving bus she was on with a male friend in the capital city. Making its world premiere at the Sundance Film Festival, which begins Thursday, "Delhi Crime Story" is based on real events surrounding the case of medical student Jyoti Singh. "Probably personal, too," the writer-director added in a recent phone interview from Toronto, noting he's been working 18-hour days for the last six weeks to finish "Delhi Crime Story."
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TORONTO - Indo-Canadian filmmaker Richie Mehta says his new seven-part drama series, about a fatal 2012 gang rape case in Delhi, has probably been "the toughest professional experience" of his life.