The new season of Delhi Crime on Netflix wants you to w-a-t-c-h c-l-o-s-e-l-y. Scene after scene across the six-episode series has dramatic, claustrophobic frames. Cameras are held centimetres away from faces. At times, they threaten to crawl up nostrils or pierce eyeballs.

The shooting style is better suited to cellphones rather than larger screens. It’s also distracting rather than gripping. Although Delhi Crime has the actors who can carry off this level of intense scrutiny, fiddling with focal lengths can never replace strong writing and direction.

The third season sees ace Delhi Police cop Vartika Chaturvedi (Shefali Shah) kicked upstairs – she is now a Deputy Inspector General of Police – and out of the capital. Vartika is languishing in a punishment posting in Assam when she g

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