Filmmaker Zoya Akhtar congratulated the team as she said: “India just won it’s first Emmy.” While National Award-winning actor Vicky Kaushal simply wrote: “Congrats Team #DelhiCrime.”
Actress Yami Gautam felt proud after learning about the win. She said: “Proud and congratulations to the team #DelhiCrime” and actress Aditi Rao Hydari calling the win amazing’, wrote “Amazing! Amazing! Amazing! Congratulations to the team of #DelhiCrime for their much deserved win at the #Emmys2020, can’t wait to see season 2!”
Filmmaker Guneet Monga wrote: “#DelhiCrime wins the Emmy @iemmys International Awards for Best Drama. This is EPIC!! Congratulations @RichieMehta @ShefaliShah, @rajeshtailang and whole DC team and everyone at @netflix Big Big Hug and Huge Congratulations! More Power.”
Filmmaker Goldie Behl said that it is “always great to see the deserving win.. Congratulations #DelhiCrime”.
Singer-composer Vishal Dadlani said: “Congratulations to everyone involved! Great show!”
An excited Sayani Gupta wrote: “Oh my Goddddd! #delhicrime won!!!! @iemmys @RichieMehta @NetflixIndia @RasikaDugal @ShefaliShah_ @_AdilHussain.”
Actress Dia Mirza congratulated the team and said the win is “richly deserved”.
Actress Shamita Shetty said it was a proud moment: “Congratulations to the entire team of #DelhiCrime on winning an Emmy!!! Such a proud moment for us.”
Actress Neha Dhupia wrote: “Wow this is amazing news … and so well deserved!!! Congratulations team #DelhiCrime.”
The news of the win was confirmed by the International Emmy Awards on its official page on Twitter. “The International Emmy for Drama Series goes to ‘Delhi Crime’ produced by @GoldenKaravan / @skglobalent / @NetflixIndia,” tweeted @iemmys, with the tags #India!, #iemmys and #iemmyWIN.
Writer-director Richie Mehta’s seven-episode series has Shefali Shah in the central role of DCP Vartika Chaturvedi, and narrates the story of investigation in the aftermath of the heinous Delhi gang-rape of December 2012.