Popular Indian net collection Delhi Crime has gained the ‘Best Drama Series’ award on the forty eighth International Emmy Awards, held nearly this yr owing to the continuing COVID-19 pandemic. The present turns into the primary Indian programme to win an International Emmy. The information was confirmed by the International Emmy Awards on its official web page on Twitter. “The International Emmy for Drama Series goes to ‘Delhi Crime’ produced by GoldenKaravan and NetflixIndia,” the official deal with of the Emmy Awards tweeted.

Writer-director Richie Mehta’s seven-episode collection has Shefali Shah within the central position of Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Vartika Chaturvedi, and narrates the story of investigation within the aftermath of the heinous Delhi gang-rape of December 2012. Shefali posted a video on her official Instagram web page that reveals the award being introduced. As quickly because the present is said winner within the Drama Series class, Shefali will be heard reacting with delirious pleasure. 

In his acceptance speech, writer-director Mehta thanked all of the producers, the OTT platform Netflix that streams the present, the casting crew and the forged, with a particular point out of Shefali Shah, his dad and mom and spouse, the Sundance Film Festival, and the Delhi police crew headed by “Neeraj Kumar and the amazing Chhaya Sharma” that helped them convey the present alive.

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“The project was led by women, it was financed and put together and released by women. This crime was solved by women. This is for the courage of those women and all the women who not only endure the violence that so many men inflict on them, but then are tasked with solving the problem,” stated Mehta. He paid a particular tribute to the sufferer and her mom. “Finally the fearless and tireless hero of all mothers and her daughter. Not a day goes by when I don’t think about you both and what the world subjected you two to. And I hope none of us ever forget that,” he stated.

Watch the acceptance speech beneath.

The fictionalised crime drama collection additionally options Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Avijit Dutt, Gopal Dutt, Jaya Bhattacharya, Denzil Smith and Yashaswini Dayama in pivotal roles.

With IANS inputs