Trial By Fire Web Series Review | An intense, one of a kind crime-thriller

Trial By Fire follows the true story of the Empire Cinema tragedy in Delhi. In 1997 when hundreds of people walked into the Uphaar cinema theater to catch a packed screening of JP Dutta’s Border. During the show, a massive fire broke out 59 people lost their lives. Over a hundred were injured. Created by Prashant Nair and Randeep Jha, this Netflix series follows Neelam and Shekhar Krishnamurti played by Rajshree Deshpande and Abhay Deol.

Plot

A married couple lost both their children in that Fire. Based on the 2016 book of the same name written by the real Neelam and Shekhar. This seven-episode series chronicles. Their three-decade-long judicial fight for justice against the Ansal Brothers. Rich Delhi industrialists who owned that theater are a true blue Against All odds. Trial by fire is a superbly well-acted show with Sanjeev Maurya’s sharp casting.

Ensuring that we care deeply for even the briefest characters. As this soft compassionate man reeling with grief who’s gradually forced to face the inequality and inefficiency of the judicial system. Trial By Fire is also very challenging to watch. Not just because of the difficult subject matter of the story, but also how it’s told. By opting for the personal internal journey, rather than the more conventional investigative thriller and courtroom drama.

How Trial By Fire is different from other shows in the genre

The compelling drama drives the feeling similar to shows like Chernobyl and Dope Sick. Which also deals with horrid real-life tragedies gave us both the macro and large investigation story. And the micro lens of average people affected by it. Instead in its approach Trial By Fire refused to tell the more enticing accessible digestible version of a difficult story. But instead chose a more meditative approach to take us inside the hearts and minds of regular people pushed to astonishing bravery in the wake of a painful atrocity.

Nonetheless, Trial By Fire remains an achievement in portraying the pain of humanity and ultimately bravery. Makes you wonder, what the real tragedy is. What a horrid thing happened and people died or that getting justice for those people takes decades and bears little result.

Conclusion

We haven’t seen it quite like this an immensely well-crafted incredibly sensitive heart-wrenching portrait of grief and loss. Trial By Fire chooses to keep the victims and their humanity at the center of its narrative without dramatizing the subject matter into something particularly binge-able.

Urgent series aims to shed light on the fact that justice isn’t always a basic right. But often a soul-crushing uphill battle with no end in sight, especially within a system that favors those with money and power.