The crime genre of the OTT has proven its relevance in the Indian market of content, with remarkable shows like Burari deaths, Delhi Crime, The Family Man, and The Butcher of Delhi.
The first season, Indian Predator: The Butcher of Delhi was produced by Vice India and featured serial killer Chandrakant Jha.
Raja Kolander, aka Ram Niranjan, is featured in the second season of the show by the India Today organization for Netflix. According to the Uttar Pradesh Police, he not only killed over a dozen people but also ate some of them.
This season of Indian Predator has 3 episodes, distinct from each other. The first episode builds up on true crime doc tropes; fast-paced and intentional choppy editing, the usual music building up before moments of violence, and police and family sources stating some obvious facts, which is to fairly hold and build the context for the audience.
The second episode is where the tension picks up because it gives an up-close look at the heinous murderer who was responsible for at least 14 deaths and his evil obsession. The case itself is shocking in that Kolander feasted on the brains of his victims, especially choosing clever and upper-caste victims for the purpose.
The further episodes have the criminal itself, In a hall of Unnao jail, Kolander walks in with a smile, and joins his hands in namaste as the crew adjusts his mic.
Niranjan was convicted of three murders and the courts found no evidence to support the claim that Niranjan ate his victims, The Diary of a Serial Killer has an episode titled ‘Cannibal.’
The entire sequence of his interview is fascinating and haunting as it plays out, enough to grab the audience’s attention. The addition of the shock value or actual willingness to show Kolander and children’s dark sides has added binge value to the series.
The production team’s journalistic research and Dheeraj Jindal’s direction are praiseworthy. Like every true-crime documentary, The Indian Predator: The Diary of a Serial Killer includes a psychologist or forensic expert, the killer and his family, the victim’s family, and criminal psychologists, the show also includes a bit of socio-political and anthropological perspectives.
Born as Ram Niranjan, Raja Kolander renamed himself, blending the words ‘raja’ (king) and ‘Kol’ (the tribal community that he hailed from). In other words, he proclaimed himself as the ‘King of Kols.’ His children too have interesting names – Adalat, Andolan, and Zamanat.
The ‘Kol’ falls as a tribal community, and is struggling to adjust to a modernized, deforested society and wishes to get recognized as Schedule Tribes. The caste system is so deeply rooted in Indian society that it often blurs ethnic identities. The recent series Delhi Crime too focused on the crimes committed by a tribe-caste and their stereotypes. Although to be cleared, the Kols have nothing with cannibalism, as the none tribe-caste has to do with the robbery.
The Indian Predator: The Diary of Serial Killer witnesses the lengths that the human mind can go to and the depths it can sink to.
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