When people complain about the Indian streaming industry relying too heavily on violence and gore, they’re probably talking about stuff like Sector 36 — the new crime-thriller on Netflix that reduces a real-life horror story to a cat-and-mouse chase between two thinly written characters on either side of the law. The reluctant cop is played by Deepak Dobriyal, while Vikrant Massey gets top-billing the serial killer trying to evade his capture. They’re put on collision course by a movie that routinely favours contrivance over cleverness, virtue-signalling over sensitivity. In the film’s centrepiece interrogation scene, modelled perhaps on the one featuring Robert De Niro and Al Pacino in Heat, Massey’s character makes repeated references to necrophilia, child abuse, and cannibalism. But this isn’t the problem. Sector 36 is, after all, a movie about the infamous Nithari case from a couple of decades ago. But it becomes a problem precisely because the movie has no idea how to approach the story with nuance. It chooses, instead, to take the tone of a late night television newscast, drawing large …