Netflix show depicts India's colliding worlds of crime and media
Scoop is a gripping tale of a real-life crime, Mumbai's mafia and the role of the police and the pressThe sensational murder of India's best known crime reporter in June 2011 and the subsequent arrest of a female crime journalist on allegations of being involved in the murder had stunned the country.
Based on Ms Vora's 2019 memoir - Behind The Bars In Byculla: My Days in Prison - Scoop is a gripping tale of a real-life crime, Mumbai's mafia and the role of the police and the press. Many of the real-life incidents have been replicated, but Ms Vora says "the series makers have exercised cinematic leverage".
"It was like revisiting the whole trauma. It was difficult to see on screen what I went through, the humiliation and character assassination I faced. But I'm happy that the series got made because people needed to see the truth that I was not guilty. In October-end when one newspaper carried a report naming her, she says her first reaction was of shock. She then knew that her arrest was imminent - and she was arrested on 25 November.
"I think there's nothing wrong with being ambitious," she tells me. "But in my case it was used to portray me as a villain." "The prison officials also treated me well, they'd counsel me telling me to take each day as it comes and that everything will be alright."Ms Vora, who was cleared of all charges by the trial court and then the high court, says she has "no idea who fixed me".
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