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Shefali Shah Thanks Viewers as 'Delhi Crime' Season 3 Draws Strong Reviews

She says she dropped bravado to play a quieter, relentless Vartika this season.

Overview

  • The series premiered on Netflix on November 13, 2025, and has been greeted with positive reviews and strong audience feedback.
  • In posts and interviews, Shefali Shah said she was "terrified" before the release and later "overjoyed and weeping with relief" at the reception.
  • Director Tanuj Chopra has identified the Baby Falak case as a key real‑world inspiration for the new season.
  • The investigation opens with an abandoned infant and widens into a probe of a human‑trafficking network led by DCP Vartika Chaturvedi.
  • Recent coverage underscores the show's critique of patriarchy and the social invisibility of girls, with women portrayed across roles including enforcer, perpetrator and victim, featuring Huma Qureshi as a trafficking queenpin.