Dancing on the Grave Will Be Prime Video’s First Local True Crime Docu-Series

Dancing On The Grave, Prime Video’s first local true-crime documentary series will premiere worldwide. The chilling murder of Shakereh Khaleeli in Bangalore in the early 1990s is the subject of this unscripted investigative series.

About Dancing on the Grave

Dancing on the Grave examines the sudden disappearance and grisly murder of Shakereh Khaleeli (maiden name Namazie), a well-known and wealthy heiress from a respected family, using archival footage, news clippings, interviews, and dramatizations. Through exclusive interviews with key participants in the events and those at the periphery, the four-part docuseries investigates the enigmatic murder. In addition, it features the offender himself and delves deeply into the nearly 30-year-old murder that shook the nation, going beyond the facts that are already known about it.

Aparna Purohit on the series

According to Aparna Purohit, Prime Video’s head of India Originals, “Sometimes, facts are stranger than fiction.” Additionally, documentaries provide a window into individuals’ mentalities, ethos, and social fabric; They can stimulate and provoke thought. At Prime Video, we are constantly striving to provide our diverse customer base with distinctive and compelling content. We are excited to introduce Dancing on the Grave, our first Indian true crime original series, to audiences worldwide because we have observed a growing interest in documentaries, particularly those of the crime genre.

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She went on to say, “Making this documentary has been an extremely enriching journey that entailed detailed and meticulous research and investigation. We are pleased to have formed a partnership with India Today Originals Production, which specializes in bringing news stories and feature films to viewers. Their vision for Moving on the Grave impacted us, and we felt that a story should have been told.”

Written and directed by Patrick Graham, the unscripted Amazon Original series will premiere in India and across 240 countries and territories worldwide on April 21.