![]() The devil lies in the interstices of what is said and left unsaid as well as in the format of the true crime series. Perhaps the refrain “We never suspected anything” tells you much more about the case than anything else. They were such wonderful and helpful people, says person after person. House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths (2021). Interviews with family members, friends and neighbours throw up a murkier picture, with recurring statements suggesting that the tragedy not only evades easy answers but even an appropriate reaction. Over three episodes and roughly 135 minutes, House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths reopens the case file with the help of police investigators and journalists. The series, directed by Leena Yadav and co-directed by Anubhav Chopra, goes further down the rabbit hole. Several media stories on the Burari deaths offer an explanation that is at the intersection of mental illness and superstition. But what is known is macabre enough to merit a feature-length documentary on an extensively reported incident. What Tommy saw will never be known (and props to the series makers for checking up on him). Had Tommy been let loose, he might have prevented the deaths, declares an animal rescue worker who took charge of the hapless animal. The only survivor was the pet dog, Tommy, who was tied up on the terrace. The eldest member, the grandmother, was found strangulated in another room. Ten of the family members were hanging, bound and gagged, in a circular formation from a mesh that separated the ground floor from the floor above. The Chundawats – a widowed matriarch, her daughter and two of her sons and their families – were found dead in what was later ruled to be a mass suicide. The engrossing Netflix mini-series revisits the deaths of 11 members of a joint family in Northeast Delhi on July 1, 2018. Add ignorance, wilful or otherwise, to the mix and you have a show that lives up to its title. In House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths, the certitude that is sought by the true crime documentary meets a belief in fatalism and predestination. Indonesia Open 2023, semifinals blog: Chirag-Satwik reach first ever Super 1000 final Prannoy out.Interview: The ‘Macron method’ that’s driving France’s outreach to China – and where India figures.Why does Indian law protect men who rape their wives?.‘We pointed to the potential’: Priya Sarukkai Chabria as e-journal ‘Poetry at Sangam’ shuts down.When CV Raman denied a student admission in IISc because she was a woman.Protests by VHP activists meant that this gorgeous animated ‘Ramayana’ never got an Indian release.‘The Story of India’s Cheetahs’: How the cheetah went from being hunter to hunted. ![]() Why are right-wing US voters so loyal to Donald Trump?.US Republican leader Nikki Haley draws backlash for tweet on need to ‘confront’ India on environment.Mumbai: Loan fraud case against BJP leader closed.Watch: Huge swarm of bees takes over Times Square in New York City before being rescued by beekeeper.Watch: Actor Dharmendra joins grandson Karan Deol in a dance to an old hit song from his own film.
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