Indian Predator - La bestia di Bangalore

The case in reality was definitely really shameful. However, the series fails to give us goosebumps. The thrill and fear doesn't comes in mind that much because they just keep talking and talking each minute. I guess this is what documentary is probably. Also, everyone is contradicting each other, it creates confusion and makes it boring to watch. I never watched any documentary before but this doesn't gives that much details. Do not think that I have no problem with what happened in reality. I am just talking about this series, nothing to do with reality. In fact, I believe he should have been sentenced to death.

I know this case in early 2000s when this was a sensational news and so many stories about umesh reddy used to come on media. The Netflix documentary is very slow. They have recreated the videos of violence committed by umesh but they never show it properly. The faces are blurred and not shown properly even in recreated videos. What is the use of adding recreated videos if it was not meant to be shown?

The pace of the documentary is also very slow. Watching in 1.5x also feels slow. The interviews of many police officers were not needed at all. How did they solve the case, how did they gather evidence nothing was shown.

This documentary series was very difficult to go through, not because it was disturbing, but more so because I was in constant disbelief of the incompetency of the Indian police system and also how the activist speakers would sneak in every now and then to make it about something else entirely.

This above everything should be about spreading awareness about these kind of psychopaths, creating a better environment for sexual victims so they feel comfortable coming forward and making sure such incompetent people are never in power of position who can blame women for such things instead of the criminals.

The best thing this documentary does is expose how poor the justice system truly is, show how the mentality of the people in India is still a century behind and Women are trapped in an invisible cage.

Not to mention the amount of times he was allowed to escape and in a way those lead to more murders. The murders he committed after running away, the blood of those victims' are in the police officers hand just as much as the killers.

This is a sordid true crime drama, that somehow manages to rise above its format to deliver a powerful message about being convicted by the media. And about the corruption that is rampant in the Indian justice system. And the plight of women in that country. There's a profound moment when the filmmakers show an out take of an interview with a police officer, and he says that in the case of a sexual assault, the woman is at least 25% to blame. At another time in the series, a police officer is being interviewed, this is a different police officer, and he casually mentions that the police have their ways of getting suspects to talk. By which he means torture. And what is even more baffling is that the same suspect was allowed to escape from police custody twice. And some of the explanations that the police officers come up with are just hilarious. For example, one says that one of the officers was diabetic, so he was peeing more slowly and that gave the suspect a chance to escape. By the end, we do not know if the main suspect actually was guilty of any crime he was charged with, and I don't think the filmmakers care either. It's not a good series, but it is an eye-opening one.

Compared to the other episodes of the series, it is much weaker production. The main reason for this is the lack of sufficient evidence related to the main events. Other episodes feature interviews with the victim and, in some cases, the original defendant. Nothing such was found here. As a result, the solidity of the screenplay remains absent here. And that's why the episode is so average. This episode doesn't live up to the standards that Indian Predators series has set. Although the main accused is a gruesome and brutal murderer, rapist and abuser of women. The cinematography of the recreated dramatic parts based on true events is beautiful.