The much appreciated Netflix series Delhi Crime is coming back with its second season next week. The cast of the show – Shefali Shah, Rajesh Tailang and Rasika Dugal, has been promoting the show, and in a recent interaction, Shah explained the core difference between the two seasons.

Delhi Crime Season 1 was based on the 2012 Delhi gangrape case. With years of research behind it, the show initially premiered at Sundance and was bought by Netflix. The second season of the show is a “fictionalised version of a true crime,” she explained to Galatta Plus. Talking about the core difference, the Darlings actor said, “I think the difference between seasons one and two is that over there, there was a crime and these characters came into the picture.” Over here, there are the characters, so the investment in the characters has become even greater, and there is a crime. Now it’s not just them as cops, it’s also them as people. It is all of that and more, “she said.

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Delhi Crime was the first Indian show to win the Outstanding Drama Series at the International Emmy Awards in 2020. The show was widely appreciated by critics and audience, and turned out to be a gamechanger for Shefali Shah, who played the lead role of DCP Vartika Chaturvedi.

Delhi Crime was the first Indian show to win the Outstanding Drama Series at the International Emmy Awards in 2020. The show was widely appreciated by critics and audience, and turned out to be a gamechanger for Shefali Shah, who played the lead role of DCP Vartika Chaturvedi.

Delhi Crime Season 2 starts streaming on Netflix from August 26. Adil Hussain, Anurag Arora, Sidharth Bhardwaj and Gopal Dutt also reprise their roles from the first season.

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