Patrick Graham calls Hathras a mirrored image of continuously occurring crimes in India

You sense Patrick Graham’s empathy lengthy earlier than you see the instincts of a sensational true-crime filmmaker when mid-day sits down with him to debate Hathras – 16 Days. “The rationale it gained notoriety was due to the press protection on the time and the compelled cremation,” Graham says nearly clinically, earlier than including the road that hangs over the documentary: ‘To today it’s nonetheless consultant of continuously occurring crimes.’

The concept the Hathras case was by no means an remoted tragedy, however a recurring actuality, grew to become the inspiration of the Zee5 docu-series. As an alternative of revisiting the case as a solved headline, Graham focuses on the 16 unstable days between the assault, the sufferer’s dying, the late-night cremation, and the media-political storm that adopted.