India Synopsis
A Mumbai police officer's search for a missing teenage girl leads her to the depraved world of child trafficking. What follows is a cat-and-mouse game between the officer and a ruthless mafia kingpin.
Titles With Overlapping Themes
Films and series that share thematic tags with Mardaani. Number on each card indicates how many keywords overlap.
Other Titles From Yash Raj Films
Action + Crime in India
135 India titles in our catalog blend the Action and Crime genres. Below: the top-rated of them (excluding Mardaani itself).
The 2013–2015 India Window
Mardaani holds position #109 of 288 India films in the 2013–2015 window, below highlighted by audience rating.
The 2010s India Landscape
Catalog density by release year across the 2010s in India, 919 titles in total. Highlighted year (yellow) is when Mardaani premiered alongside 91 others.
Budget & Box Office Efficiency
At a 1h 53m runtime, production spent $19K per minute on screen and earned $67K per minute back.
Position in Catalog
Released alongside 91 other India films in 2014.
The 1103rd India title from India we index (earliest catalogued entry: 1913).
Our India catalog contains 1,983 titles in total (1,904 films).
Audience Engagement
83 audience reviews — more than 89% of India films in our index.
Popularity sits at the 77th percentile among India films.
Thematic Fingerprint
Tags on Mardaani, grouped by how common each theme is across the full Asian catalog. Rare tags are more distinctive signals.
- villain · 5
- pimp · 4
- misogyny · 4
- beaten to death · 3
- tough girl · 3
- female police officer · 3
- one woman army · 3
- abduction · 3
- teenage prostitute · 2
- anger · 2
- child trafficking · 2
- misogynist · 2
- tough cop · 2
- child prostitution · 2
- sex trafficking · 1
- female detective · 1
- police agent · 1
- knocked unconscious · 1
- forced into prostitution · 1
- evil man · 1
- teenage girl · 22
- brothel · 17
- brutality · 15
- fistfight · 14
- rape victim · 7
- cruelty · 7
- kidnapping · 72
- rape · 64
- investigation · 45
- female protagonist · 33
Reception Benchmarks
Ranked #869 of 1,983 India films indexed here (56th percentile by TMDB audience score).
Rating is +0.2 points above the India average of 6.4/10.
Among India Action productions specifically: #237 of 637 (top 37%).
Production Details
| Primary Country | India |
|---|---|
| Original Language | Hindi |
| Production Companies | Yash Raj Films |
| Runtime | 1h 53m |
| Release Date | August 22, 2014 |
| IMDb | tt3495000 |