Dabba Cartel Review: Can This Crime Thriller Keep You Guessing?

Dabba Cartel Review:

Very few films or series have been made in India on women like gangsters or lady dons. In the OTT space, Dimple Kapadia’s starrer Saas Bahu and Flamingo and Sushmita Sen’s Aarya have also moved forward with the same vision. But in 2019, an attempt like the Hollywood hit The Kitchen has happened for the first time in the Hindi space with Dabba Cartel on Netflix.

Story Of Dabba Cartel

Vishnu Menon and Bhavana Kher have started the story of the Dabba Cartel from Mumbai’s Viva Life Housing Complex. All the employees of a pharmaceutical company VIVA LIFE live, from the managing CEO to the clerk’s family. Hari, a middle-level employee of this pharma company, wants to shift to Germany with his family after getting close to the bosses and jumping up the ladder of promotion. His wife Raji runs a dabba business with Mala, the maid of the house. To make it popular, she also keeps a packet of a sexual potency enhancing herb so that the demand for this dabba increases among women.

Analysis Of The Series

There is another link in this story: Hari’s mother, Raji’s mother-in-law, Sheela. The secrets of her past life complicate this story further. A house broker, Shahida, increases the connections of this cartel. Vivo Life Pharma’s ex-finance officer, Varuna, whose husband, Shankar, is currently the India chief of the pharma company. These housewives together started distributing ganja and MDMA in the box in which packets of sexual potency enhancing herbs were distributed along with food. And then, like the international series Breaking Bad, this Dabba Cartel makes a new experimental drug, Mithai, by mixing VIVA LIFE’s banned drug, Modela and MDMA.

How did women get trapped in the drug syndicate?

How women who run a household, a job and a business get trapped in a drug syndicate. Get entangled with drug cartels and how a storm comes in their life. That reaches from a business started with the desire to earn some extra money to a war with drug cartels.

The creators – Shibani Akhtar, Vishnu Menon, Gaurav Kapoor and Aanksha, along with Excel Entertainment, have brought a completely Indian, completely Desi version of Breaking Bad and Narcos. And this first season of Dabba Cartel is just the beginning of drugs and bloodshed. In the 7th episode, it becomes clear that the chessboard of the bloody game of Dabba Cartel has just been laid out.

Ritesh Sidwani and Farhan Akhtar’s Excel Entertainment has created this Netflix series. With the dream that Dabba Cartel is the first beginning of a big dream in the Indian OTT. This is clearly evident from its casting, presentation and scale. Hitesh Bhatia has tried his best to have all the ingredients in this series. This universal subject of drug syndicate came with completely Desi formula of the network of Indian housewives.