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01x03 - Episode 3

Episode transcripts for the TV show, "Dabba Cartel". Aired: February 28, 2025.*
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Five housewives who run a high stakes secret cartel in which style, ambition, love, friendship and betrayal set in the rich 1960s Mumbai.

01x03 - Episode 3

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Now look, Aaji. You are the senior here.
So now you have to fix our problem. Do you

know what your dear girls have done?
Poured my stuff worth lakhs down the

drain. So now you tell me,
what should I do with them? Huh?

-sh**t them.
-What?

You have enough b*ll*ts to do the job?

Of course. It's loaded.

So whom will you start with?

Ya! So,
you were the one who wanted to burn me?

-You threw boiling water on me, right?
-No.

No, no, no,
no, no, no. I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

I'm sorry. I won't ever do it again.
Sorry, sorry,

sorry. Please, please I'm begging you.
Please, please, please.

-You won't if your dead, right?
-No, no, no, no, no. I'm sorry I made a

mistake. I'm so sorry, sorry, sorry,
sorry, sorry.

Start counting.

-One. Two.
-No, no, no, no, no, no.

Two point five.

And you wanted to run, huh? Hmm?

Not me, not me, please, please.

It's too late for that now. Count.

-Not me, not me, please
-Come on, close your eyes.

-Please don't.
-Last chance.

Chavan, stop!

Arey, Why are you screaming,
huh? You like to scream all the time?

I'll k*ll you first then, huh? Okay.

-Ba. Ba, Ba, please, Ba.
-Ba? Oh, I see, okay! You

want me to sh**t Ba first?

-No. No, no, no, no, no. No.
-Okay.

Come on Ba. It's your turn to
die. She asked for it, not me.

-No, no, no, no, no!
-Hey, shut up!

Let the old woman die in peace. Huh?

No!

Oh no.
It was not loaded. But it's loaded now.

No Chavan. Please.
Chavan, don't. Chavan, don't. Please.

Bye, bye.

Ganya, she's not scared of dying.

Who do you work for, tell me?

I've retired.

Retirement over.

SOHAM MOTOR TRAINING SCHOOL

I'm giving you one last chance.

From tomorrow onwards your dabbas will be
used to supply my stuff. Come on, come on.

Everyone go home now.
Your family must be waiting,

right? Ganya, open the door,
come on. Okay, bye bye. Nice meeting you.

SOHAM MOTOR TRAINING SCHOOL

Santosh was your boyfriend, right?
He never told you who he was working for?

Are you saying it's my fault?

Yes. You'll threw the MDMA down the drain,
right? This is all your fault,

so you'll clean up the mess!

We didn't know, Shahida,
that this could get so--

So now you know right? I swear I
should have never helped you with the

-flat.
-Why're you talking such crap now?

Stop talking. Just-just stop talking.

What Didi!
She wanted 30% of the business and

now she's saying she did us a favor.

Wait a minute. Who
started selling the weed first?

Yes, it was me. He was blackmailing me
with a video. But you got into this on

your own. You said that we should keep
doing it. You just wanted to make money.

I just wanted to make money? And you and
your Raji didi are selling weed to raise

-money for charity, you poor girl.
-Don't bring Raji didi into all this.

Why? She's changed her mind about Germany?
Go, go. What's changed? Go to Germany.

Please go.

What Chavan wants,
we all will have to do that.

No, no, B-Ba. We'll try some other way.
I'm sure there's a better way.

Let's think of something.

-We should go straight to the police.
-Yes.

What will you say to the police,
tell me? We have no problem selling weed.

But we won't sell MDMA to anyone?
Have you gone mad!

We make one mistake,
and pay for it the rest of our lives? Huh?

-This is the only option you have left.
-Wrong! I'm packing up my stuff and

leaving. I suggest you'll do the same.

Like Santosh left the city?
No one is going anywhere.

You just focus on running
the dabba business.

And leave that Chavan to me.

You-you said that you've retired.
What kind of work did you do?

-I managed the business.
-Who's business?

Sultan Mirza's.

Who?

Mirza?
You mean, Mumbai mafia don, Mirza sahab?

On whom they made a film.

Do you want to get out
of this mess or not?

Mm-hmm.

Hmm?

Then do exactly as I tell you.
Chavan won't touch a hair on your head.

That's my guarantee.

Stop here.

Ba. Ba, I'm sorry. I don't know, how we
got into this mess Ba. I had no idea what

Mala was doing. So sorry. Ba, please hear
me out. Ba. Ba, you won't say anything to

Hari, will you? Ba, if Hari finds out,
it'll all be over. I really don't know how

everything got out of hand.

Nobody will get to know anything about
this. And you also keep your mouth shut.

Ba, did you really work for
Sultan Mirza like you said?

Uh, I want to see Dr. Chawla?

He's on leave.

When is he back?

Come back next month and check.

And Dr. K-Kalra?

What happened to you?

I have this catch kind of
a thing in my neck, so…

Name?

A- Ajit Pathak.

Okay. And you're from?

Close by.

Doctor,

I don't have a problem when I'm moving
around but when I lie down or move my

neck from side to side, it's unbearable.
I've barely slept in the last few days.

Doctor,
give me a painkiller or tablet maybe.

One of my friends told me that Modella
gave him a lot of relief,

so can you prescribe it?

This treatment should
give you some relief.

Well, my friend said that Dr.
Chawla had prescribed it.

When?

Two or three weeks ago.

Not possible because Dr.
Chawla is in Canada,

for the past two months.

Are you in touch with Doctor Chawla?
Doctor Kalra, the tingling has stopped.

Are you done? Doc…

There's an emergency case,
sir. You please relax.

I'm looking at the numbers,
Varuna. They don't add up.

Sitara is barely turning in a profit.
I'll be honest.

Without any sizeable collateral,
we can't give you a loan.

Yeah, sure. So,
we can work that out, right, Shambhavi?

I'm willing to pledge some of
Sitara's equity as collateral.

Uh, why don't we discuss that first,
and then maybe we can…

We can do 10% at fifty lakhs.

I'm sorry, but equity doesn't work for us.

We can look at tangible assets like
property or maybe a factory.

-20? For the same amount.
-Then maybe.

Uh, Varuna, as your CA, I'm telling you,
I don't think it's a good--

There's got to be a way,
ya. It's 6 years of my hard work.

It just can't not have any value.

It's probably not my place,
but you are Shambhavi's friend.

And she said you wanted my advise.

I think you should consider cutting
your losses before it's too late.

How much?

Five hundred.

I want a receipt.

Okay.

This pain is getting worse day by day.
Can I get some Modella?

What Modella?

What time is your lunch break?

Come on, sir.

Why else would a doctor keep prescribing
medicines from the same company?

It's not like they are best of friends.

-Are you saying Dr. Chawla was paid?
-Of course! He must have made a fortune

from the Modella guys. The day the story
broke, he took his family with him and

left for Canada. Now, we have patients
coming to us in pain. Just

like you. Modella, Modella. Huh?

Can you share the patients numbers?
I mean, it could solve our problem.

I want five for it.

Five meaning?

For you I'll do it for four.
Meet me after the clinic closes,

okay? Hurry up, give me the cash.

Well so,

Okay.

I don't have four thousand on me.

-It's okay. No problem.
-No, no, please wait. I have, two-two.

Works, works. Works for me.

But it's, not a bribe, okay?

Of course it's not,
sir. You're just paying for information.

And anyway sir, I don't accept bribes.

So, the rate is five thousand for a small
vehicle and ten thousand rupees for a big

-one.
-Hey Ganya, Aaji's here.

Bring her to my office.

It's a matter of forty lakhs,
no? I'll pay you.

Let's close this matter right here.

It's not a matter of money,
Aaji. Of course I'll take what is mine.

This is your first delivery.
Sell this much for me.

Ganya will explain the rest to you.

By when do we need to sell it?

Five to 6 months at the most?

Six months.
I need to sell, one and a half kilo.

And if I were to sell all
this in one month for you?

Aaji, this is MD. MD. Not washing powder!
You can't go door to door selling it.

Why don't you let me worry about that.

But what's in it for you, Aaji?

All I'm interested in,
is clearing my debt, that's all.

Bhau, why are you getting involved
with all these women?

I can get more boys on the
job if you want me to.

Ganya, you idiot.
How many of our boys were

picked up by the police,
last month alone? Before he died,

Santosh gave us the golden goose.
May his soul rest in peace…

He bent off the countertop
and it was so funny!

He's Chacko's client,
and a very important man.

Make sure he's happy.

Hurry up.

Take this.

-All done?
-Yes.

Keep it. Keep it. Freebie.

-What's this?
-This stuff is from Thane.

Mumbai is where I need to sell it.

Have you gone totally mad?
Do you know what you're saying?

You can sell this.

Have you forgotten everything?
Why you went underground? Hmm?

Half of Mumbai was looking
for you frantically.

That was thirty years ago.
By now who will be there anymore.

As of now in Mumbai you think,
anyone will recognize me?

Why the hell are you talking
like a crazy woman?

I don't know what's gotten
to you suddenly?

Right now I see no other way
to get out of this mess.

What's the matter?
Are you in some sort of trouble?

Is this is about money?
Are Raji and Hari having money problems?

If I could pay someone off to get out
of this, why would I come to you?

Just tell me if you can do this or not,
otherwise I'll find some other way.

Sure, you'll find another way.
And who will you go to?

Don't leave like this.
Come on, look at me.

Look. How much do you need to move?

One and a half kilo.

And by when?

I don't know.

Now do you want to hear my problem?
The MDMA that I'm selling,

it doesn't belong to me.
I distribute it for Chacko Kurien.

And you don't know what he's like.

If he gets even a little suspicious
that I'm selling MDMA for some

other distributor, he'll have not just me,
you k*lled as well.

So I'm asking you for the last time.
What the hell is going on?

Moushumi, don't get me wrong.
I don't want to bring up the past.

But when you needed my help,
I didn't question you about anything.

I just did it, remember?

Wait. Come here. Enough of your drama.

Fine, I'll sell it for you.
But I have two conditions, okay.

My girls will only take the
orders from customers.

Delivering the stuff to them
is your responsibility.

I won't put their lives in danger.

And second one?

If Chacko gets even a little suspicious,
I'll stop selling this immediately.

Are you okay with that?

When can you start?

My girls will only tell their clients
that there's a new MD in the market.

Okay?
They'll say that they're not selling it,

but they can have it delivered to
their address. Free home delivery.

And the money?

Don't worry about that.
I just want to know,

how are you planning to deliver it?

In dabbas.

Here's the prescription.

So was he also given Modellla?

Yes.

It's very simple.
You will use this phone from now on.

Hmm. Mine is a touch screen.

You will not use your own phones for work.
Not for calls, not for messages.

Put this card in the phone.
After one week, throw it away.

I will give you a new one. Ready?

We will decide where this will be dropped.
The customer has no say.

All your meetings will be in public.

And what if the customer
refuses to come there?

The customer is sh*t scared,
much more than you.

They'll do whatever you say to stay safe.

Can I get Modella?

Do you have Modella?

Didi.

So much money! Shahida, just pinch me.

How much do you think this is?

It's one crore, twenty five lakhs.

We have to pay Chavan one crore, right?

There is so much, we'll take a little.
I don't think he'll find out. Plus,

we've done all the hard work.

Really? Do you have any sense at all?
I have been getting nightmares about this.

Let's pay him and end this.
I'm done with this nonsense.

Sorry.

Mala, put this away safely.
I will meet Chavan tomorrow.

Sorry. One-one minute.

Hello?

What's this? You don't
answer calls from the police?

Sorry, I was a little busy with some
work stuff. In fact, I just got free. Yeah

tell me… What's happening?

What's happening, meaning?

Weren't you supposed to show me some flats.

Oh, ya. Let me, let me do one thing.

I'll-I'll send you the
address of the place.

Why don't we meet there,
at the flat, okay?

Yes, yes, I agree.

I know he's Kamble's informant
but I'm hearing

complaints about him for the
past one and a half years.

Let him do some time in jail.

Keep the change.

Okay. I can't talk right now.
I'll call you later.

How many times will you repeat the same
thing? Hang up right now! I said na,

I'm sending it in the evening.

Later?

Hang up basta-- Ya, I'll call you later.

I'll come back later,
you finish your call--

No, no. But I'm done. I'm done now.

I can send you Kishore ji's number also.
He'll show you good places, good flats.

He's my boss right? He's much better,
he's a much better broker than me.

No-no worries at all.

No, no.
Are you scared to talk to the police, huh?

No. Why would I--no.
Just, nervous a little bit,

like, everybody gets nervous.

Why? Are you a thief, tell me?

If I really wanted to talk to Kishore ji,
I would have gone to his office.

Why would I call you here
and waste your time?

So you wanted to see me. Why?

Just like that. I wanted to.

Come. Show me the flat.

-Shahida.
-Hmm?

When can we meet again?

Why?

You're going to show me just one flat?

I'll call you later.

Yes, Suhas?
Were you able to find out anything

about Bhowmick Bose?

Hello, Medipoint Chemist.

Hello.
Is this Mr. Bhowmick Bose I'm speaking to?

Bhowmick speaking.

This is sub-inspector Preethi Jadhav.
From Kopri police station.

What is it?

You used to work at VivaLife,
right, at quite a senior level?

I want to know why the company fired you?
Was it because of Stravinol?

I'm afraid I cannot speak to you about
this matter without court orders.

Listen, you don't have to be afraid. I'll
get permission. I'll arrange everything.

Look, what I'm suggesting is let's meet
right now, informally. I'll come wherever

you are. I'll be there in
half an hour. Does that work?

Ma'am I'm telling you, I cannot meet
you without formal permission. I am sorry.

But I just--

What a waste. Bloody as*h*le.

If we knock off the employee
severance pay packages, then,

we have six and a half lakhs.

No. Keep the severance pay.
How much does it add up to?

Sure.

The total is 64 lakhs, seventy thousand,

and after covering all
your liabilities ummm…

Three and a half lakhs.

Have you told Shankar?

Does he even know?

I convinced Kishore ji because
you wanted me to.

Now your cheque has bounced and now-now
my neck is on the line. What do I do?

I'm sorry. Who are you?

I'm Shahida. I'm the broker. Who are you?

Shahida,
please give me one or two weeks more.

I promise I'll pay you the rent.

-Tomorrow. I need the rent tomorrow.
-Just, just talk softly.

We have interested clients.
Kishore ji has said to let you know.

Listen, she already told you
she'll pay, so she'll pay you.

Madam, always says that she'll pay.
But the rent never comes on time.

Why is today any different? Huh?

Because I'm shutting down Sitara.
No one here knows about any of this yet.

I need a little more time, Shahida,

and after that you can tell Kishore ji
to show the place to any other client.

Please.

One week.

-Thank you.
-Thanks.

Ya, let's continue with this.

Yes, hello?

Hello. Pathak ji. What is going on?
Did you find Chawla or not?

He has already run away to Canada.
But I got my hands on

his list of patients.
I have been talking to some

of the pharmacies here.
Only one man has come forward so far.

He told me that the Modella stocks are
coming in from some wholesale market

in Delhi. I think, I need to go to Delhi.

Amazing plan.
Will you be done investigating

before you retire?

Do you have any better ideas?

Same as yesterday.

Bhowmick Bose. He's willing to talk to us.

VivaLife has filed a defamation
case against

him. All we need is a court order,
and once we have it,

he'll definitely talk to us.

I guarantee it.

Ya, the government works on your
guarantee, isn't it? Huh?

The FDSCO cannot approach any
court without solid proof.

Then should I keep an eye on Shankar now?

Have you lost your mind?
You'll destroy all the work we've done.

If VivaLife finds out what we are up to,

we won't be able to trace
Modella back to them.

Come on, sir. You're rejecting
all my ideas like they are rubbish.

Oh, come on.

-Preeti, Preeti.
-Preeti, it's so late.

Just stop,
take a deep breath. And now listen to me.

This FDSCO is not my father's company.

If my boss finds out that I'm in Amritsar
investigating this case instead of

being in Thane,
he will definitely fire me.

Please. Listen, please,

don't do anything that will put our
investigation at risk. Got it?

Okay, I'll speak to you later.

Wait--

Ba, you've still not slept?

All these years, I've had enough sleep.
You go. I'll finish and come.

Hari shouldn't wake up.

Aaji, Aaji,
Aaji. Where were you all these years? Huh?

Please give me your blessings. Soham!
Come on, salute Aaji. You know who she is,

right? Don. Who?

-Don!
-Very good!

Hello Baba. How was school today?
Finished your homework or not?

Baba.

-Ya?
-I think we should sh**t him.

If we k*ll him,
who'll buy vadapav for you huh?

sh**t him.

I'm getting goose bumps all over my body.
Aaji, you're too young to retire. Aaji,

just take a look at Srikant bhau.
He just turned seventy. Seventy.

And yet he's campaigning day and night.
Elections are coming up in five months.

This is to support him.

The thing is Aaji,
I'm giving you two options now.

Hmm? Option one, go back into retirement.

Be at home, cook for the family,
watch your daily soaps, and relax.

Option number two, keep working for me.
You'll become a very rich woman.

Hey, Aaji,
don't be in such a hurry to make

up your mind. Just relax, think about it.
You can take a couple of days. Hmm?

You play flash,
right? So you played the first round,

blind, isn't it?
And in that round I sold one

and a half kilo for you.
But now you've already seen my hand.

If you want to play again,
you will have to double the stakes.

What are you saying Aaji? Aaji! Aaji!

Ganya! Go! Get double the stuff.

Wait, Ganya. I'm still not done with him.

Go on.

I want twenty percent. My share.

Don't act too smart,
Aaji. Five percent is already fixed.

Then forget it.

Oh, wait a minute. Okay, okay, okay.
Let's be reasonable. Ten percent. Okay?

Just for you. Final.

Hey Aaji. Wait! You're just a distributor.
Not the supplier. The stuff is all mine,

right?

It might be your stuff,
but I own the market.

Mumbai city's key is in my hand.
And I know very well what it's worth.

Yes or no?

Ba, how can Chavan do this to us?
We returned all the money to him.

He is doing it because he can.

But you should have said no to him.

You should have told
him that we won't sell

anymore. We don't owe him any money now.
Okay. Fine. Let's see what he does to us.

What will you see?
Chavan will tell everyone in Thane,

that you all were selling weed.
And he'll start by telling Hari.

He has done his entire homework on you,
huh. About where you work,

who's there in your family,
who you work for, everything.

He will end all your lives without
firing a single b*llet.

So Chavan owns us for
the rest of our lives?

Just, till the elections are over.
And he doesn't own us.

We will not be delivering
for free anymore.

He will give us 20 percent.


that means, one kilo gets us 20 lakhs?



Sounds good Sheila ji,

but all of us have struggled to
move even one kilo of this stuff.

How do we sell three kilos?

You're right about that.
That's why, from today,

you won't be delivering anymore. Hmm?

-Mala?
-Hmm?

You are now our manager.

Manager? Me?

What do I have to manage?

RAJI'S TIFFIN

Strap the bag behind the bike like this.
This is the dabba. Put it in the bag like

this. The customer's address will be sent
to you on your phone. Switch on your maps

on and go and deliver the dabbas. You need
to work quickly and quietly. I don't want

-to deal with any hassles.
-Okay, ma'am.

RAJI'S TIFFIN

RAJI'S TIFFIN

RAJI'S TIFFIN

Ba, thank you.

Shahida, keep this safely for now.

Why me? Where do I put it?

Come on, find a good place for it now.
You won't run away with it, na?

Mummy, we should have
bought a smaller TV.

We'll buy a bigger house.

Here. My Germany contribution.

Raji, you don't need to do this.
We've talked about this before.

Where did you get all this money from,
Raji?

Uh, Ba's helping me out right now,
to expand the business. So,

we-we're also delivering in Mumbai now.

In Mumbai? Why do you need to take

on all this pressure?

We need it,
Hari. We want to go to Germany. All of us.

We were among the first to report that
an ill*gal medicine named Modella

was responsible for Parul's
car crash in Amritsar.

Now the new t reports published
by Aditi Sehgal,

the sub-editor working
with The Front Page,

shed some light on the chemical
composition of this drug.

So, we have Aditi here with us today.

Hi, Aditi. Umm. Can you tell our viewers

more about Modella?

Hi. We have managed to get a copy
of Modella's drug analysis report.

This report makes it crystal
clear that Modella's

main compound is Fentanyl Citrate.
Fentanyl is a notorious compound that

claims thousands of lives globally,
every year.

But, Aditi,
who do you think is responsible for this?

There are five companies that have
the license to produce and export

Fentanyl-based opioids here in India.
Davis Laboratories Ltd.,

Muller & Kalra Pharmaceuticals,
Suryoday Biotech,

Atreya Life Sciences and VivaLife Pharma.
So then the question is,

which one of these companies
is responsible for Modella?

Aao Meena, super seena, bad boys, good
girls, statue! I did it. Don't move. I

-said, statue.
-Aao Meena, super seena,

bad boys, good girls, statue!

Hello?

Where is the key of the Sankalp
Siddhi flat, Shahida?

There's some problem in that flat.

It's with me, sir.

The secretary has gone and called
a locksmith to open the flat.

You better be ready to pay for this.

Sir, just-just tell them,
I'll be there in ten minutes.

Tell him not to open the flat.
I'm coming in ten minutes,

sir. I'm on my way. I'll be there soon.

Move it,
move, move, move. What happened here?

You-don't you check these things?

But Madam, the whole
ceiling is falling apart--

Kishore ji, one minute I'll just
call--Kishore ji, so-- Kishore ji, where

did the sofa go?

That piece of junk?
I threw the damn thing out!

Fu--sh*t!

Wait, Shahida! What the hell?

Have you all gone deaf

because of the rain?

Oh sh*t!

Madam, what do I do about this? Oh, madam!

sh*t! sh*t! sh*t! Sht! sh*t!
Move it, move it! sh*t! sh*t! sh*t! sh*t!

Hey, get out of here!

The world's most expensive sofa.

But where do we keep it now?

I have someone in mind
who can help with that.