Scoop, an upcoming Netflix series inspired by journalist Jigna Vora’s book Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison, will start streaming on June 2. In this conversation with Rajyasree Sen, filmmaker Hansal Mehta and actor Karishma Tanna talk about the new crime drama, and the role of the police, judiciary and the media.
Hansal speaks about his fascination with Vora’s story and how he closely followed the journalist J Dey murder case, in which crime reporter Jigna was jailed for nine months before being acquitted of all charges seven years later. “Jigna’s book is a prison memoir…but I felt that there was a potential to go beyond the book. To explore who this person (Jigna) was.”
