Mardaani is a 2014 Indian Hindi-language action thriller film directed by Pradeep Sarkar and produced by Aditya Chopra. The film stars Rani Mukerji, with Jisshu Sengupta, Tahir Raj Bhasin and Saanand Verma in supporting parts. The account rotates around Shivani Shivaji Roy, a policewoman whose intrigued in the case of a captured adolescent young lady leads her to reveal the privileged insights of human trafficking by the Indian mafia.

Released theatrically on 22 August 2014, the film received positive reviews, with praise for Mukerji's execution, and developed as a commercial victory. It was taken after by a continuation titled Mardaani 2 in 2019. Taking after the victory of Mardaani 2, the generation house reported in December 2019, a conceivable third installment in the Mardaani arrangement, titled Mardaani 3, with Rani Mukerji reprising the part of Shivani Shivaji Roy. The film was the final directed by Sarkar beneath the Yash Raj Movies pennant, some time recently his passing on 24 March 2023.

Plot
The film opens with a mystery police operation coordinated by Shivani Shivaji Roy, a devoted Wrongdoing Department Senior Reviewer of the Mumbai Police, in arrange to capture a pimp named Rahman from his safehouse. She freight ships in with her group and captures Rahman, and salvages his fancy woman. Shivani lives with her spouse, Dr. Bikram Roy, and high school niece, Meera. Earlier to the film, she protected an stranded young lady named Pyaari from being sold by her uncle, and begun looking after her like her possess girl. One day, Shivani finds out that Pyaari has been lost from her protect domestic for five days and starts an examination, where she finds out that the engineer behind this capturing is a Delhi-based boss named Karan Rastogi (Tahir Raj Bhasin), who runs a cartel including child trafficking and drugs. Shivani takes the errand by and by, going past her work and obligations to catch Karan.

Shivani powers Rahman to uncover the names of Karan's partners and comes over Sunny Katyal (Anant Vidhaat Sharma), a car-dealer who works Karan's trafficking trade in Mumbai. Karan finds that Shivani is observing his cartel's exercises and tries to have Katyal slaughtered for getting to be a risk. Be that as it may, Shivani spares Katyal, and he concurs to offer assistance her seize Karan. Decided to capture him, Shivani tracks down Karan's helper, Wakeel. Karan, rankled, makes beyond any doubt that Pyaari is sold and assaulted each day. As a caution, he spreads fake news that Shivani's spouse has abused his calling as a specialist to attack a female understanding, causing Bikram to be tossed off-duty. He at that point chops off one of Pyaari's fingers and sends it to Shivani's house in a blessing box. In the interim, Karan's right-hand man Mattu (Aman Uppal) gets a contract to have a party full of whores from a man named Tandon on sake of a serve in Delhi, Taneja ji. Mattu moreover murders one of the young ladies in Karan's brothel at his orders when she contracts dengue, assist terrifying Pyaari.

Shivani voyages to Delhi and sets up a trap including imitation sedate merchants from Nigeria, who imagine to offer costly and uncommon South American cocaine to Karan and Wakeel. As they are arranging, Shivani freight boats in with her group. Whereas Karan get away, Wakeel tries to delete prove by pulverizing his portable phone's SIM card, at that point commits suicide. Shivani and her Delhi-based partner Balwinder Singh Sodhi track down a tailor who knew Wakeel for a long time. He uncovers that a prostitute named Meenu Rastogi was Wakeel's closest relate. Shivani's proceeded examination leads her to Karan's house, where Meenu, uncovering herself as Karan's mother, steadies her.

She is stole and brought to Karan's party. There, Shivani reunites with Pyaari, where she and the other young ladies are constrained to work as whores. Karan welcomes Taneja ji and permits him to assault Shivani. In any case, she get away and heartlessly beats Taneja some time recently taking him prisoner. Shivani single-handedly stands up to the circumstance, constraining Karan into a little room and protecting the young ladies. She challenges Karan to battle her when he prods her for being a lady and beats him. Feeling that he might elude the law, given the degenerate police and legal framework, she hands Karan over to the young ladies, who beat him to passing. Along these lines, Sodhi and the whole group freight boat in and capture Mattu, Tandon and Karan’s group individuals. Meenu is too assaulted by the young ladies and gets paralyzed by stun whereas Taneja survives some time recently being sentenced to life imprisonment.

Cast
Rani Mukerji as Senior Inspector Shivani Shivaji Roy, Mumbai Crime Branch Officer
Tahir Raj Bhasin as Karan 'Walt' Rastogi, a criminal and a drug addict
Jisshu Sengupta as Dr. Bikram Roy (Shivani's husband)
Anant Vidhaat Sharma as Sunny Katyal
Priyanka Sharma as Pyaari
Mikhail Yawalkar as SI Balwinder Singh Sodhi
Avneet Kaur as Meera
Ahad Ali Aamir as Minhas
Saanand Verma as Kapil
Mona Ambegaonkar as Meenu Rastogi, Walt's mother
Mahika Sharma as a victim
Peter Muxka Manuel as Mboso
Anil George as Lawyer aka Vakeel Sahab, Walt's assistant
Saheb Das Manikpuri as Pakya
Sanjay Taneja as Chief Minister Taneja