What to watch on Netflix | Buried Truth uncovers ‘real’ Indrani Mukerjea

Like many contemporary crime dramas, docuseries The Indrani Mukerjea Story: Buried Truth is based on an unfinished story. The verdict is not yet out, the guilty have not been sentenced – and yet here is a summing up with interviews, actual phone recordings and recreated scenes on the small screen. Even though the series takes care to present, and not judge, the real events when sequenced in a particular way do take a certain stand. Events unfold as they perhaps did – or did not. No one really knows the truth.

Directed by Uraaz Bahl and Shaana Levy, this four-part series dropped on Netflix recently, exciting all those interested in the bizarreness of the case – Indrani Mukerjea was arrested and jailed for allegedly killing her sister, who turned out to be her daughter, who she says in her memoir Unbroken is actually the result of a rape by her own father. Nothing about the case’s timeline is in Indrani’s favour. No one has seen Sheena after Indrani met her on April 24, 2012. At the age of 25, a girl simply vanished off the Earth!

As a crime series, Buried Truth is open-ended. There is no satisfactory closure, but then that could be a possibility only after a judgment is out, and the villains and vamp neatly named. As of now, there is only the carefully put together collage of what we already read about but never got to see in one place. Indrani’s youngest daughter Vidhie faces the camera with confidence and self-awareness; she even candidly mentions a suicide attempt. Rahul – Indrani’s stepson and Sheena’s fiancé – is a voice, a very insistent one, demanding again and again to know where Sheena is. To Indrani’s claim that Sheena has broken off with him and gone to the US on a whim, he only says that the latter’s passport is with him.