Exposing the bad boy tycoons of India

Despite an earnest effort by Netflix’s docuseries Bad Boy Billionaires: India to document the rise and fall of men behind financial deceit such as Vijay Mallya, Nirav Modi and Subrata Roy — best described as a bunch of “has-beens” whose amoral behaviour eventually led to their fall from grace — it does little to shed new evidence about their cases.

Instead, viewers are left with a lacklustre aftertaste due to the fact that it neither has the tone nor cathartic fix to make it an investigative piece that captures attention.

At best, it is a compilation of news events with journalists that covered the story recounting it for the viewer, together with interviews from former…