In the crime stories of rural India, everything is also rotten.

The face he makes during most of the footage of Secrets of a crime The life of a police officer in rural India, Santosh, is astounding. Actress Shahana Goswami's eyes widen as she confronts the different realities she encounters while investigating the case of a missing young woman. She believes that the caste system, supposedly eliminated, remains so firmly in place in her country. She also feels helpless at the systematic machismo that dominates much of the dynamics of the society in which she lives. And, as if that were not enough, she is astonished by the corrupt dynamics and brutality of certain police methods, many of them practiced by her boss, a female inspector whom she considered an inspiring role model of an empowered woman.

All of this makes Secrets of a crime, in addition to one neo-noir solvent, be a film about the revelation of privileges and impunity of some people over others. It's the same trick as so many noir stories: one whodunnit as an excuse to portray a rotten environment. Although, in this case, debutant Sandhya Suri's film deliberately distances itself from the models of thriller of Hollywood (and the plot is not far from Training day) as well as the rhetoric of Bollywood's eye-for-an-eye violence. However, in shocking, dramatized crime stories with a social message, like the French series The Sambre case yes it is coming.