Mumbai: In conversation with Director Patrick Graham discusses his documentary series "The Dupatta Killer", exploring serial killer Mahanand Naik's crimes. Patrick shares his reaction to Naik's potential release and the public takeaway from the film. He draws parallels between Mahanand Naik and Charles Sobhraj, highlighting disturbing similarities. Patrick reveals the profound messages he hopes audiences will take away.
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00:00It's an interesting question. I think if Mahanan Nayak was released, I'd probably be checking
00:10outside my windows every day a little bit extra carefully to make sure he's not following
00:14me around. But I also think that it would be an interesting point of discussion to contemplate
00:26whether a Mahanan Nayak who allegedly killed 16 people but definitely got convicted of
00:31two killings, why should he be allowed out after 14 or 15 years while there are some
00:36killers who are given either rarest of the rare, which is a capital punishment, or life
00:41meaning life and they are never released. So I feel like the decision on sentences is
00:47often very much in the subjective hands of a judge. There's no real kind of logical constant
00:52between the sentences that are given to these murderers essentially.
01:01I don't think that it gives the wrong impression to the youth if they are watching. I feel
01:06like actually what it does is it shows that the Goan police were actually thoroughly professional
01:10and like an efficient and decent bunch of people. And I think that what the documentary
01:17shows largely is that people are good, right? Normal everyday average people are good.
01:22And when you throw someone who is systematically doing bad amongst these people, it causes
01:29absolute havoc and misery and tragedy when other people are just trying to get on and
01:33do their lives. And we have people like Chetan Patil, the officer in charge, who is there
01:39to help the community, who is there to help society in putting these people behind bars,
01:44which he did a very good job of.
01:45So I think the kind of takeaways of the film would be a healthy debate as to the rehabilitative
02:00potential of prison. And I believe that prison is about rehabilitation, not necessarily just
02:05punishment. As one of the lawyers in this case said, it's like a hospital for criminals.
02:11However, there are people who have kind of like a pathological desire to commit crime
02:16and commit murders. And a person like Mahanand is that person. So we have to question whether
02:23a serial killer or somebody as sadistic and vicious as Mahanand can actually be reformed
02:30by the penal system. And if not, how to sentence them. And although this is only an hour long
02:36documentary, so we haven't been able to cover too much in detail, I would say that it's
02:41the beginning of that conversation. It's like, can this man be rehabilitated? Should he be
02:47allowed out after 14 or 15 years after he's served a life sentence? The other things that
02:53I think the documentary looks into is, as I said, these women who are beyond the marriageable
03:01age, who are kind of considered less valuable by the communities and the society at large
03:08that they live within. And they're kind of like forgotten women, and they are made particularly
03:13vulnerable to people like Mahanand, who promised this bright future, who says, I don't mind
03:18if you're beyond marriageable age, et cetera. They're made vulnerable. And so they are more
03:22susceptible to someone like Mahanand, who was just very good at lying and lying and
03:27lying and charming. And then of course, getting you into a vulnerable position and killing
03:31you. I think Charles Sobhraj, he's kind of one of these celebrity serial killers. I feel
03:41like Sobhraj, if I remember correctly, he would drug people and then kill them. And
03:48he would also, there were instances where he actually kind of tortured people in a more
03:52brutal way. And I don't think Sobhraj was doing it necessarily. I think he was doing
03:57it for money, wasn't he? He was stealing. So similarly, yes, I think Mahanand, at least
04:0250% of the reason he was doing his crimes was for money, for financial gain. But otherwise,
04:08their MO was very different. They're very different personalities, I think.
04:16I think the message I would want to give to the audience is just to kind of, as always,
04:21just kind of start conversations, look at the themes and the issues which are brought
04:25up by the film and discuss them, think about them. I also always with these kind of stories
04:33want to respect the people, the victims, and make sure that the people who are really affected
04:39by what this man did are not forgotten and are paid tribute to. The other thing I would
04:46say is that there's a tendency for serial killers to be put on a pedestal that they're
04:51some kind of mad, evil geniuses, but they're not. They're just kind of pathetic,
04:55malfunctioning human beings who are pitiful, really, at the end of the day.