The Desi Crime Podcast

In 1951, one of the most famous men in Ceylon, now Sri Lanka, was a batsman. Some of the greatest players in the world believed he was a genius. Frank Worrell said that if he were choosing a dream team made up of the best cricketers on the planet, he would be the first person he picked. Garry Sobers called him the greatest batsman who had ever lived. And was not just admired for how well he played. He was a celebrity. He walked out to bat wearing a silk shirt and a cravat. He practised his shots in front of a mirror every morning. Women who had never watched a cricket match before came only because he was playing. And on the evening of 9 October 1951, the country’s greatest sporting hero was asleep at a friend’s house in Colombo 7, recovering from an afternoon of drinking. That’s when the police walked in and arrested him for the murder of his wife. This is the story of that man, that woman, and a case that took Ceylon by storm. This is the story of Mahadevan and Ananda Sathasivam.Go watch Insidious: Out Of The Further, out August 21st. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios or join our YouTube family https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinDesi Crime early access, now only on Amazon Music:https://music.amazon.in/podcasts/23e00040-1692-4d3e-9a87-3b169e644500/the-desi-crime-podcastFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's the 18th of August, 2007. A Saturday. And in a flat in Lokhandwala, in Andheri, a 16-year-old boy is sitting at a computer, doing what every teenager in India is doing that year. He's on Orkut. And in this boy's messages, tonight, like most nights for the past 3 weeks, is a girl. Her name is Angel. Angel is flirty. Angel is funny. Angel keeps saying they should meet. And the boy is interested, but he's being smart about it. Before anything else, he wants one thing: a photo. Send me a photo. And Angel keeps dodging. Week after week. A teenage standoff, playing out one scrap at a time. Until tonight. Because tonight she sends him a message: "Don's worry? m quite and gud looking. u wanna meet me??? Lez mette up na! wot say?" This is the story of the boy that said yes to a date that would turn out to be his last. This is the story of Adnan Patrawala.For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join For fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/ Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon:https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKW To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

By the mid-1990s, Vancouver’s Indo-Canadian underworld was no longer operating quietly. Young gangsters were threatening each other on television. Brothers were being shot in traffic and left dead in alleyways. Their names were becoming larger than the crimes attached to them, turning into a strange mixture of warning, legend and aspiration. But one of the most extraordinary stories from that world did not begin with a drug deal, a revenge killing or a man walking into a nightclub with a gun. It began inside a courtroom where six men stood trial for executing two brothers at the centre of Vancouver’s growing gang war. Outside it, bodies were continuing to fall. This is the story of a juror, a gangster and a murder trial that became almost as scandalous as the underworld it was supposed to judge. This is the story of Gillian Guess, Peter Gill, Bindy Johal and the Dosanjh Brothers. For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/join For fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/ Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon:https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKW To buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In a small village in Tamil Nadu, three people walked into a house in 2008 and were never seen again. No missing persons report was ever filed. No investigation was ever launched. For four years, the world moved on and a family ate dinner every night literally above the truth of those 3 missing people. What finally brought it to the surface wasn't a detective or a tip or a breakthrough in forensics. It was a reality TV show. A reality show where, one may afternoon, the cameras rolled, the conversation began. And then, under the searing studio lights, in front of a live audience, on a show whose title promises that whatever is said will be the truth, a 17 year old girl named Bhargavi began to speak. What she said went on to crack open a triple murder that has been lying buried for four years, literally buried, in the soil outside her own home. This is the story of those 3 missing people, that one reality TV show, and that one 17 year old girl with the courage to crack it open. This is the story of the Villupuram Triple Murder Case.For extra episodes, early access, silly bloopers, subscribe at: https://www.patreon.com/thedesistudios Join our YouTube family: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCnbfV0YvrxWMq3h0hmo13Jg/joinFor fastest updates, follow our socials at: https://www.instagram.com/desicrime/Aryaan https://www.instagram.com/aryaanmisra/Aishwarya https://www.instagram.com/aishwaryasinghs/Order our book, Desi Crime, available now on Amazon:https://amzn.in/d/0WyttKWTo buy Desi Studios merch, visit: https://kadakmerch.com/collections/desi-studios Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.