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Is a woman guilty because she is ambitious?
Updated On: 04 June, 2023 07:10 AM IST | Mumbai | Jane Borges
Did ex-crime reporter Jigna Vora pay a deadly price for professional ambition when she was named key accused in the killing of a fellow journalist? The muse, the actor and the maker in conversation with mid-day
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Karishma Tanna plays Jagruti Pathak, inspired by Jigna Vora, in the Hansal Mehta-directed web series Scoop, which follows the 2011 daylight murder of mid-day’s investigations editor Jyotirmoy Dey. Pics/Pradeep Dhivar
To watch on screen an incident so close to home, is unnerving. There’s also mild curiosity, because the characters here are not just actors performing their part; they are living out a reality this writer and several seniors of her former and current newsroom witnessed. Filmmaker Hansal Mehta’s latest Netflix release, Scoop, is that kind of show. Inspired by Jigna Vora’s 2019 memoir, Behind Bars in Byculla: My Days in Prison, the show follows the Mumbai-based crime reporter and former deputy bureau chief of The Asian Age newspaper, as she turns into a suspect in one of the city’s most shocking daylight murders.
Vora was key accused in the shooting of mid-day crime and investigation’s editor Jyotirmoy Dey, 56, who was gunned down on June 11, 2011, by four motorcycle-borne men at Hiranandani Gardens, Powai. Chhota Rajan alias Rajan Sadashiv Nikhalje, once a key aide of Dawood Ibrahim, was convicted in 2018 for the murder. He is currently lodged in Tihar jail. Vora, who was accused of trading key information about Dey to Rajan in lieu of a front page interview with the underworld don, was acquitted seven years later in May 2018 for lack of evidence.
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