Director: Tanuj Chopra
Just like the previous two seasons of Delhi Crime, Season 3 is equally intense and engaging. Seeing the hidden facts of our society on screen can be tough, but Delhi Crime does that with sensitivity.
Netflix’s Delhi Crime Season 3 focuses on the chilling network of human trafficking, where young girls are moved like commodities and traded. They are given the hope of jobs. Inspired by a true story of the Baby Falak case, which happened in 2012, when a two-year-old girl became the face of child abuse.
Identities erased, and lives traded under the guise of opportunity. Stacks of files reveal a haunting pattern — young women vanishing under the promise of jobs, being forced into marriages, children and women being used as slaves, and disappearing into a country-wide web of deceit.
Shefali Shah in a still from Netflix's Delhi Crime Season 3
The child was admitted to the hospital with serious injuries, including human bite marks all over her body. The baby underwent five operations, but she suffered from a heart attack. But the case doesn’t end here. The fourteen-year-old child who claimed to be her mother wasn’t actually her mother.
Digging into the case comes to light a haunting pattern where young women kept vanishing under the promise of jobs, being forced into marriages, children and women being used as slaves, and disappearing into a country-wide web of deceit.
The storytelling of Delhi Crime Season 3 is as powerful as the previous seasons. The story is hugely relevant and human, and the way each case is connected is absolutely mind-blowing.
The case is handled by DIG Vartika Chaturvedi (Shefali Shah) — our steadfast Madam Sir — who begins connecting the dots between these disappearances and a system fueled by fear, profit, and silence. As her investigation deepens, all roads lead to one name whispered across cities: Badi Didi (Huma Qureshi).
Badi Didi too has an extremely sad backstory and she mentions in one of her conversations right at the end of the show with DIG Vartika Chaturvedi (Shefali Shah) how she had a child marriage and how she was regularly beaten and sexually abused by her husband.
Huma Qureshi in a still from Netflix's Delhi Crime Season 3
Ruthless, invisible, and always one step ahead, Badi Didi is the elusive architect of the criminal empire who Vartika and her team are determined to bring down — setting the stage for a psychological face-off between two women who refuse to lose.
Badi Didi, performed by Huma Qureshi, is one character in the show whom you can’t just stop hating. She is scary and inhuman. The two things she understands in life are money and guns, and she doesn’t think twice when it's time to pull the trigger. She rules like a boss and knows how to control the men in her kingdom, too. Not just Shefali Shah, this time it is Huma Qureshi who steals the show.
The best thing about Delhi Crime is that every season deals with a different story, and you don’t really need to watch the previous two seasons to understand the third season. Delhi Crime continues its journey with honesty and bravery in pursuit of justice.
Rating: 3.5 (out of 5 stars)
Delhi Crime Season 3 is streaming on Netflix
