Mumbai Diaries 26/11
On: Amazon Prime Video
Dir: Nikkhil Advani, Nikhil Gonsalves
Cast: Mohit Rana, Konkona Sensharma
Rating: *1/2

Two of the most misrepresented, public professions we know are probably news media and the police. As part of the first, I stand guilty of having done the same towards the latter. Which isn’t to suggest both don’t have (more than) their fair share of absolute douche bags. The issue is with their representation as a bulk, where you come across seeming like an ignorant outsider/troll.

As does this show, with a TV news reporter (Shreya Dhanwanthary), risking her life to cover 26/11 terror attacks in Mumbai. She gets on a car to crash herself in it, so she can enter the hospital as a patient instead. What’s the scoop she’s looking for inside? Death of city’s top cops (whom she calls inspector later). Promise, no night-crawler would do that. There is no scoop.