‘Raakh’ series review: Ali Fazal lights up this smouldering study of crime and punishment
The review of the series 'Raakh' praises Ali Fazal's performance in a crime drama inspired by the 1978 Ranga-Billa case in Delhi. The show explores themes of grief, violence, and the loss of urban safety.
Why it matters
The series reflects a growing cultural trend of dramatizing historical true-crime cases to examine societal shifts and urban trauma.
The flood of true-crime content has turned the living room into a dark laboratory. It feels unsettling to measure which series ‘grieves better,’ which depicts ‘more realistic’ violence, or which frames ‘suffering believably’. The couch feels like a spectator’s seat to human misery. Yet, this discomfort perhaps serves the point. The niceness of a living room is often a bubble, while the city outside – as Raakh reminds this week – remains equally brutal and indifferent.
The article is a standard cultural critique and review of a television series.
Get smarter about the news
Sign up free for a feed built around what you actually care about, Dive Deeper research on any story, and the full text of every article.
Create free accountAlready have an account? Sign in