Female Lead Crime Thrillers: If Delhi Crime left you hungering for women-centric tales raucously thrown into crime, corruption, and prejudice, here is an arsenal of India’s spellbinding thrillers up for grabs. These include badass female cops, unexpected masterminds, and so much more while emphasizing women in all complexness while trudging through dark and dangerous worlds. Here are five female-led crime thrillers matching Delhi Crime’s grit with intensity, and emotional depth.
A show not to be missed is Dabba Cartel Netflix’s starring Shabana Azmi, Jyotika, and Shalini Pandey. The plot revolves around five housewives and their secret lives running a drug cartel through Mumbai’s popular dabba (lunchbox) network which combines domestic life into organized crime. It promises suspense, empowerment, as well as many twists.
The loss of Aarya’s husband forces Sushmita Sen’s character to enter into the drug business of the deceased-husband, Aarya will see Sushmita Sen deliver a powerhouse performance as a mother sucked into her husband’s mysterious drug business after his mysterious death. As she muyers learns to survive in a violent world, she becomes fiercer than her people. While Aarya streams on Disney+ Hotstar, its emotional element is even from the thriller side.
Ek Thi Begum features Anuja Sathe as Ashraf who takes on the mafia to get vengeance on behalf of her murdered husband and has set its backdrop during the bygone 1980s underworld of Mumbai. Streaming now on MX Player, it is quite a dramatic tale filled with courage, vengeance, and metamorphosis.
Netflix’s Aranyak stars Raveena Tandon. It is all about one determined cop who gets into chilling murder mystery and a town blanketed under fog in the Himalayas. While folklore, mystery, and crime form the crux of the tale, the story is hauntingly reminiscent of justice and belief.
Based on a small town Dahaad– one policewoman tracks down the serial killer who targets women in Rajasthan. The series is on Prime Video and is exceptional in its realism, subtle writing, and powerful performances.
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