Why Cinema Keeps Returning to Gujarati Women in Crime

Why Cinema Keeps Returning to Gujarati Women in Crime

For more than two decades, Gujarati women have stood at the centre of some of the most compelling crime stories told on screen. Their lives stretch from rural Gujarat to Mumbai’s streets, from newsrooms to cult communes. Indian films, series (particularly on Netflix) and global documentaries keep returning to them, turning real lives and even fictional imaginings into narratives of grit, scandal and survival. It began in 1999 with Godmother, a f…