Real-life crimes often become fodder for films and TV shows and the tremendous public interest in sensational cases is used as a bait to pull in the crowds. But when criminal offences take place in the industry's backyard, they tend to remain in the spotlight longer than usual.

Indrani Mukherjea (above) and (right) Mahie Gill in a still from Not A Love Story, which was purportedly based on the murder of TV executive Neeraj Grover