Indrani Mukerjea took the stage on Day 1 of India Today Conclave 2024, in a session titled ‘Mother of All Mysteries | Buried Truth: The Indrani Mukerjea Story’. The former entrepreneur spoke about her latest Netflix documentary and why she ‘deserves a Padma Shri award’. The documentary, ‘Buried Truth: The Indrani Mukerjea Story’, is based on the infamous Sheena Bora murder case in which Indrani is the prime accused.
At the session, Indrani Mukerjea spoke about the ‘media trial’ she went through during Sheena Bora’s murder investigation. “There has been a lot of hype and I have gone through a media trial. I have put myself out there for people to talk about it. A lot of people are making money at the back of the documentary (‘Buried Truth: The Indrani Mukerjea Story’). And not just the production house but memes as well,” Indrani said.
“Perhaps I did contribute to the media because I made a hot topic. I have contributed to the economy of India. That is why I should get Padma Shri (laughs),” she added.
In the Netflix documentary, there comes a segment where Indrani claims that she was ‘raped’ by her own father, which resulted in the birth of Sheena. It was also mentioned that Indrani left her two children, Sheena and Mikhail Bora, with her parents when they were young.
Soon after the documentary was released, questions arose as to why Indrani would leave her kids (one of them being a girl child), with an alleged perpetrator.
Talking about it, Indrani Mukerjea said, “At that point, it was a very selfish act. But it was a question of survival for me at that point. It was a wrong decision. My kids have been lucky that nothing happened. I would have killed myself had I stayed there. It felt right back then.”
She said, “I didn’t have the ability to fight and take my kids back. It was quite heartbreaking. When I went back to meet my kids, they couldn’t recognise me. I came back. I was 21. Post that, I never looked back till my parents reached out to me asking for financial help.”
Indrani also said that she felt betrayed when her former husband Peter Mukerjea “vanished for two hours and then vanished completely” from her life after her arrest. “He never came back in my life. He didn’t come to see me when I was ill,” she said.
Indrani said, “The day I was arrested, Peter wrote to a society to stop the transfer of property to Vidhie [her daughter with her second husband, Sanjeev Khanna].”
“On the day your wife is arrested, all you can think of is write to the society to stop transfer of property? If I was at his place, I would have been there for him,” Indrani said.
Indrani Mukerjea’s documentary ‘Buried Truth’ is currently streaming on Netflix.