Dabba Cartel Season 1
7 episodes · about 5 hours · complete season
Filmi Score · season 1
Good
13 reviews
60
16+
Series premise
When an investigation into a pharma company hits close to home, five women launch a tiffin service with a secret ingredient.
Where to watch
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All seasons
Season 12025 · 7 episodesGood · 13 reviews16+
60
Cast & crew
Created byGaurav Kapur, Vishnu Menon, Akanksha Seda, Shibani Dandekar
Season 1 directed byHitesh Bhatia
Season 1 written byAsad Hussain, Vishnu Menon, Bhavna Kher
CastShabana Azmi
Sai Tamhankar
Jyothika
Nimisha Sajayan
Shalini Pandey
Anjali Anand
Gajraj Rao
Parminder Singh Kainth
Series premise
When an investigation into a pharma company hits close to home, five women launch a tiffin service with a secret ingredient.
Where to watch
Availability by JustWatch · some watch links pay filmi.ai a small commission; it never changes what we show or how we score.Family Room
Is Dabba Cartel season 1 OK for kids?
Parents should know
Five Thane women turn a tiffin service into a drug-trafficking front. Expect frequent drug themes, some profanity, a tepid same-sex relationship, and a few frightening moments; strongly themed around women defying sexism.
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Role modelsNo review evidence yet
The record, item by item
Language · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“गालिया है” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“a curiously lukewarm lesbian coupling” view the record →
Sex & nudity · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“girl-on-girl action, surprisingly tepid here, has now become a trope” view the record →
Drinking, smoking, drugs · Strong · Reviewer on record
“a dabbawali's home business morphs into an increasingly dangerous drug supply operation” view the record →
Drinking, smoking, drugs · Strong · Reviewer on record
“a large heartless pharmaceutical company illegally manufacturing lifethreatening opioid painkillers” view the record →
Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“a few genuinely frightening moments bunged in” view the record →
Intense scenes · Moderate · Reviewer on record
“blackmails her to deliver drugs in their tiffin; or else, he'll leak her sex tape” view the record →
Positive messages · Strong · Reviewer on record
“women who feel slighted, ignored, and who desperately want to win in life” view the record →
Positive messages · Strong · Reviewer on record
“their invisibilisation as breadwinners by a society steeped in everyday sexism” view the record →
What the critics said
13 reviews read · the critic’s own number where they gave one
YouTube, Telugu · rating spoken aloud · 28 Feb 2025
4/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in videoFilmi’s reading 8580
Rahul Desai · 28 Feb 2025
Desai calls Dabba Cartel superbly cast and cleverly written, praising its subversive, patriarchy-aware world-building and ensemble performances;… Read it there →
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YouTube · rating spoken aloud · 15 Mar 2025
4.5/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in videoFilmi’s reading 8090
Pratikshya Mishra · 28 Feb 2025
Mishra admires the show's character writing and cast but finds the pacing inconsistent and the early episodes a tiresome investment; she concludes… Read it there →
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28 Feb 2025
3/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →
Stated in textFilmi’s reading 6260
Yogi · YouTube, Hindi · rating spoken aloud · 2 Mar 2025
3/5, said on camera. Published nowhere. Watch it there →
Stated in videoFilmi’s reading 6060
YouTube, Tamil · transcript read · 10 Mar 2025
The reviewer says the climax twist lands flat and most characters are thinly written aside from Shabana Azmi's, with only okay cinematography and… Watch it there →
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Nandini Ramnath · 28 Feb 2025
Ramnath finds the season's premise overcooked and its two plots forcibly braided, praising committed performances (Azmi's menace, Grover's cameo)… Read it there →
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Shubhra Gupta · 28 Feb 2025
2.5/5, stated in the text — not a formal rating. Read it there →
Stated in textFilmi’s reading 5050
YouTube · transcript read · 28 Feb 2025
THR India praises Dabba Cartel's cast, premise, and visual polish but finds the storytelling too rushed and diffuse to develop its characters —… Watch it there →
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28 Feb 2025
The critic finds an interesting, women-led premise and a strong cast but says the plot overreaches, characters stay underexplored, and the… Read it there →
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Rashmi Vasudeva · 1 Mar 2025
Vasudeva praises Shabana Azmi's don-like presence and the entertaining ensemble but calls the script lazy and meandering, concluding that despite… Read it there →
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