11/7/2023 0 Comments House of secrets documentaryAnd humane aspects of "Sensational headlines" from perspective of all involved. □□ /1BwWNRR2bA- Heisenberg October 8, 2021Ī complete, agenda-free presentation of an incident, without overtly labeling it.Ī testimony on the ramifications of ignored mental health, slow-brewing psychosis. It's shocking to realize that incident which could have been avoided if there were mental health discussions in most of patriarchal families has led to loss of so many lives. #HouseofSecrets is harrowing and disturbing docu series on infamous burari mass suicides. I think great job taking through the details of what happened & at the same time the lack of mental health awareness & utter sensalization by Media of truth events! It's depressing but still so well done #HouseofSecretsTheBurariDeaths /PdHe0GkgUh- Goeun| □ October 10, 2021 I watched house of secrets burari deaths. Has shed light on what happened exactly to the family and why they took such a major step, once again discussions on the importance of mental health have kickstarted on Twitter. As the Netflix docu-series House of Secrets: The Burari Deaths It turned out to be a case of shared psychosis. Why would an entire family consisting of children do that? While their relatives couldn't believe it could be suicide, the Police suspected it was mass suicide. While the oldest member of the family, the grandmother, was reportedly stangled, other ten were bound, gagged and hanged in a circular formation from a mesh that separated the ground floor from the floor above. One family, consisting of three generations were found hanging in their own home. As Lalit’s friend asks this question towards the end of the documentary, ‘Is there a God?’ And if there is, why did He not stop the heinous crime from happening.It was in 2018 when we all woke up to the most shocking piece of news and crime that had happened in Burari, Delhi. Atheism – One other pertinent issue raised here is that of atheism. Also, Read: 10 Great Dysfunctional Family Films of the Decade (2010s)ģ. HOS is a discreet call to call out this vice and to start talking about problems. This only suggests the stigma to reveal family secrets in Indian societies. And yet, no one had a whiff of what was happening. Chundawat family has amicable relations with the neighbours, their kids played together, their wives were friendly, the men of the houses had shops across from each other and would indulge in a dialogue every now and then. So when we say that families are tight-knit and well-connected with the neighbouring families, we might be making a misled statement. Family Dysfunctionalities – What seemed like a normal, God-fearing and kind family turned out to be the theatre of occult happenings. Related to House of Secrets: 12 Films that Explore Mental IllnessĢ. Despite being educated, none of the children talked about Lalit’s mental illness to anyone outside their house. In this case, the bigger question is how taboo mental health is in India. Somehow Lalit convinced everyone in the family of his truth, and eventually, the father (read: the father’s spirit) led the functioning of the family through getting instructions written in the book. Nevertheless, The Burari Deaths remained one of the horrifying crimes that gripped the country that made headlines till much after.Įvidently, the voice came back when the father passed away and his spirit came back to possess Lalit. Soon after, the case was shut as there were no offenders, no accused and no complainants. The mini-cult was run by the younger son and the deaths were a result of a ‘shared psychosis’ behaviour. It was believed that the deaths were a result of some religious occult ritual gone wrong. However, the discovery of the 11 notebooks from the house gave much-needed clarity to the case. Aside from the family pet dog who was found tied to a leash on the terrace, none of the family members survived to tell the tale.Īll the news channels, social media and independent journalists sensationalized the news to such an extent that a possibility of involvement of a religious Guru (tantric) came into being. The second possibility of mass suicide was contestable but not with surety as the cause of the deaths still remained unknown. On inspection, the possibility of murder was quickly ruled out as the CCTV footage suggested no miscreant activity was detected in the area. The deceased was found hanging to death with dupattas in their own house- 7 men and 4 women of different age groups belonging to three different generations. On July 1, 2018, Delhi woke up to the harrowing news of 11 deaths in a single household in Delhi’s north-eastern area- Burari.
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