How Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix Chose Not To Be Awesome

To borrow a line from Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix - "...this is the most selfless and selfish thing you can do..." says Shefali Shah to Rasika Dugal while looking at the adoption papers on the table. Yes, this OTT show delivers high-quality performances. Every character has been chosen with care; each of them fits the profile to absolute perfection. Nobody can point a finger at the casting director or even provide any feedback to the impressive starcast of Delhi Crime Season 3. Then, why is it still short of being highly recommendable? The content! And what about it? When you have such a gritty plot, the leverage of shooting without a budget, and a supporting cast that leaves no room for complaints, you expect the Director and the makers to try to stand out from the crowd, but, strangely, they choose not to! Shefali Shah is brilliantly depressive, and Rasika is again vulnerable, but not a doormat. Still, Delhi Crime Season 3 leaves you pondering - they chose a story that has been rendered a 100 times before, blended it with some casting brilliance, and topped it with brilliant performances, but no one, not one person in the creator's cabin asked them to use a slightly different perspective. Just scan the list of elements that are central to the plot underway at Delhi Crime Season 3, and honestly ask yourself, what is so different from anything you have seen before:

• A supercop held back by the growing bureaucracy associated with higher-ranking police officials
• A team of trustworthy inspectors and sub-inspectors with their local network of informants & infiltrators
• A human trafficking ring that has its tentacles across the many states of India
• A cheap Asian nation that is the ideal marketplace for the produce [our abducted women]
• Rural India, where women are regarded as very killable & disposable child-producing machinery
• Witnesses were shot right outside the court premises
• A judicial system that works at its own pace in cahoots with a sluggish police machinery
• Many facets of women being oppressed - in cities, suburbs, villages, and even when wearing a uniform
• The inability to disseminate the entire ring that is trafficking young women and girls 

Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix weaves a tense atmosphere; it makes you want to skip the introductions repeatedly, and you want to catch the next episode, and still, it falls short of being brilliant. The Jat accent could have been more subtle. Shefali didn't need to look as if she were about to jump off the ledge from the first scene to the last, and the manner in which young women are "consumed" across this dark network could have been highlighted more. The storytelling is heavy without depending on special effects or going overboard with slang and gaalis that seem to have infiltrated every trending OTT show in India. Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix is also likely to feature Shefali Shah, and when that happens, we need to see a more human, more connected character. When you are portraying a supercop who is already a seasoned force in the department, the performer cannot look so anxious for such a prolonged time that the intensity is impossible to differentiate from the real self. Anurag Arora and Gopal Dutta seem right out of the local thana in Delhi - I dare say, their controlled performances are perhaps a clue someone can drop to Shefali - just let your facial muscles relax a bit, and you will still be as convincing!

• Can you watch Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix with the kids? NO.
• Will Delhi Crime Season 3 shock you with something never seen before? Nopes!
• Does the storyline of Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix intrigue you? Not really.
• Will Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix remain etched in your mind? NO.
• Does Rasika Dugal seem a bit repetitive in Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix? Yes, but still lovable!
• Does Huma Qureshi convince you as the Queen Pimp of Rohtak? Yes.
• Do some actors in Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix go overboard? Shefali Shah to some extent.
• Any discoveries in Delhi Crime Season 3 on Netflix for the non-OTT watchers? Celesti Bairagey as Sonam is convincing, and at one glance, you can tell that she can be very glamorous!