Indian series bags Best Drama series at the International Emmy Awards 2020

The Netflix show, Delhi Crime, has won big at the 48th International Emmy Awards this year. It bagged the Best Drama Series award against Germany’s Charité 2 Season 2, UK’s Criminal UK and Argentina’s El Jardín de Bronce (The Bronze Garden) Season 2.

On the other hand, another Indian show, Amazon Prime Video’s Four More Shots Please, that was nominated for the Best Comedy Series, lost out. Made In Heaven’s Arjun Mathur was nominated for the Best Actor award for the same Amazon Original, however, he too lost out against tough competitors.

Delhi Crime is the first ever Indian series to win an Emmy award. It premiered on Netflix in March 2019 to rave reviews. It premiered on Netflix in March 2019 to rave reviews.

Indian-Canadian director Richie Mehta directorial Delhi Crime, starring Shefali Shah, Rasika Dugal, Adil Hussain, Rajesh Tailang, Vinod Sherawat, Denzil Smith, Gopal Dutt, Yashaswini Dayama and Jaya Bhattacharya, is a crime dram fiction, based on the painstaking investigation into the 2012 Delhi gang-rape.

Mehta in his acceptance speech during the virtual ceremony on November 23, dedicated the honour to all the women who not just endure violence that men inflict on them, ‘but are also tasked to solve the problem.’

Actor Shefali Shah played Vartika Chaturvedi, whose character on Delhi Crime was based on former Delhi Police DCP Chaya Sharma, who cracked the case of the brutal gangrape within 72 hours.

The show received massive acclaim for its sensitive retelling of a horrific crime that shook the entire nation.

Bollywood celebrities took to Twitter to celebrate the super proud moment and congratulate the cast.

Shefali Shah, who starred as DCP Vartika Chaturvedi in the show, posted a snippet from the virtual ceremony and she wrote: “OMG, OMG, OMG.”

In the comments section of Shefali Shah’s post, Hrithik Roshan wrote: “Wow, wow, wow. Well deserved !”

Bollywood star Vidya Balan, on her Instagram story, wrote this: “Hooray! Congratulations Shefali Shah, Richie Mehta and team Delhi Crime on the International Emmys for the Best Drama Series. So richly deserved.”

Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar, who worked with Shefali Shah in the 2015 film Dil Dhadakne Do, congratulated her with these words: “India just won its first Emmy. Congratulations Richie Mehta, Kilian Kerwin and Shefali Shah and thank you Netflix.