Dabba Cartel trailer: A few middle-class women cook up a trippy tale

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With a stellar star cast that is truly pan-Indian, Dabba Cartel is backed by Excel Entertainment, and created by Shibani Akhtar, Vishnu Menon, Gaurav Kapur, and Akanksha Seda.

Shabana Azmi headlines the cast, which includes marquee names like Jyotika, Nimisha Sajayan, Shalini Pandey, Anjali Anand, Sai Tamhankar, Jisshu Sengupta, Lillete Dubey, Bhupendra Singh Jadawat, and Gajraj Rao. The series is set in Thane, and the trailer shows us glimpses of the world of these five women whose lives get entangled in a drug mafia.

Sharing the trailer, Netflix wrote, “They’re cooking. And it’s criminally good.”

 

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In a statement, creator Shibani Akhtar said, ” With Dabba Cartel, we wanted to explore the extraordinary journey of ordinary household women, and how resilience, ambition, and survival instincts can push them into unimaginable circumstances. This is a story of friendship, betrayal, and power, set against the backdrop of a world they never imagined being a part of.”

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Director Hitesh, who recently helmed the heartwarming Sharmaji Namkeen, which marked the final onscreen appearance of late actor Rishi Kapoor, is directing Dabba Cartel, and he called the ‘gripping crime drama’ an extremely special experience that has “dynamic characters navigating a high-stakes world with courage and wit.”