Dangals of Crime - Episode Guide

The North Indian wrestling landscape features a revered teacher-student model that has produced some of India's most famous wrestlers. But this romanticized system is punctured with murky tales of violence and ultimately a murder.

Experts deconstruct the roots of the wrestling-crime nexus, the role of muscle in the crime ecosystem, what pushes wrestlers to crime and who scouts them. They also look at what systemic changes are needed to keep future wrestlers away from crime.