Enter the House of Secrets
The Hindu
Describing the making of her Netflix documentary on India’s infamous 2018 Burari deaths, director Leena Yadav says with the crime genre comes huge responsibility
Three years ago, 11 members of the Chundawat family were found dead under mysterious circumstances at their home in Burari, New Delhi. The deaths that shocked the entire nation and generated several conspiracy theories, also caught the attention of director Leena Yadav (Shabd, Parched, Rajma Chawal), who chose the incident as the subject for her first documentary, House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths. The recently-released (October 8) three-part docu series — with Yadav and Anubhav Chopra as co-directors — explores the ‘intricate, complex and sometimes hidden workings of a traditional Indian family’ and features a background score by AR Rahman.
In this edition of Netflix’s panel discussion series, Decoding Documentaries, Yadav discusses the nitty-gritties of making such a documentary, especially for OTT, and working with Rahman.
Excerpts from an interview:
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