Richie Mehta revealed that Delhi Crime was initially rejected by streamers for its controversial content and after rewriting the script, the series got financed

The Indian-Canadian filmmaker said the show, which explored the 2012 heinous gangrape and murder of the 23-year-old physiotherapy intern in the national capital, was greenlit only after he rewrote the script on the advice of an HBO executive who was in-charge of shows such as Game of Thrones and The Wire. “Delhi Crime was a shot in the dark... It was a 400-page script. It was a seven-hour film. It was going to be very boring... All of a sudden, I got financed when I rewrote it. Having said that the streamers wouldn't finance it, Amazon and Netflix.

“This was around 2017-18. It was too controversial. Nobody wanted to touch sexual violence in a series understandably,” Mehta said at a masterclass during the 

inaugural World Audio Visual & Entertainment Summit (WAVES) in Mumbai.