Salute! A sneak peek at THESE Bollywood actresses who played cops on the silver screen

MUMBAI: The cop universe, however, certainly is incomplete without women who don the Khaki on the big screen and undeniably manage to turn heads with their iconic roles.

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Raveena Tandon won hearts with her digital debut as Kasturi Dogra, the SHO of a small town in Himachal Pradesh, in the Netflix series, Aranyak. She investigated the case of a missing child and a boy who disappeared amid mysterious circumstances.

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With hard-hitting dialogues, action scenes, and chase sequences, Rani Mukerji as fearless cop Shivani Shivaji Roy proved her brilliance as an actress not once, but twice. In 2014's Mardaani, she set out to confront the mastermind behind a child trafficking mafia. While in 2019's Mardaani 2, she vowed to catch and bring a psychopath working for a politician to justice. Following the success of both the films, the production house also announced a third installment in the Mardaani series with Rani reprising her role.

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Similarly, Priyanka Chopra stole the show as tough cop Abha Mathur in Jai GangaaJal. In the 2015 Prakash Jha directorial venture, which she claimed was the quickest film she had ever shot, Priyanka was seen fighting for justice in a corrupt, male-dominated city.

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After playing Inspector Kiran Patkar in the 1999 film Kohram, Tabu returned as Inspector General Meera Deshmukh in 2015 in the suspense drama Drishyam, only to blow her fans' minds with her effortless acting chops.

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Shefali Shah's stellar performance as DCP Vartika Chaturvedi, a no-nonsense boss leading a squad of men, in 2019's powerful web series Delhi Crime, is unforgettable. In fact, she won the Asian Academy Creative Awards for the series in the category of Best Actress in a Leading Role.

Credit: India Today