Editing Dacoity (section)

===Dacoit films===
As the dacoits flourished through the 1940s–1970s, they were the subject of various [[Hindi films]] made during this era, leading to the emergence of the dacoit film genre in [[Hindi Film Industry]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.org:443/articles/2019-02-last-dacoits/ |date=6 February 2019 |title=Outlaw Trails |first=Paul |last=Salopek |publisher=[[National Geographic Society]] |quote=They have grown up on news accounts and Bollywood movies about the remote Chambal, a vast badland at the northern heart of their country: a no-go zone of lumpy hills and silty rivers infested with thugs, robbers, murderers, gangsters—with infamous highwaymen called dacoits. |access-date=13 February 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190214002744/https://www.nationalgeographic.org/projects/out-of-eden-walk/articles/2019-02-last-dacoits/ |archive-date=14 February 2019 |url-status=live }}</ref> The genre began with [[Mehboob Khan]]'s ''[[Aurat (1940 film)|Aurat]]'' (1940), which he remade as ''[[Mother India]]'' (1957). ''Mother India'' received an [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nomination, and defined the dacoit film genre, along with [[Dilip Kumar]]'s ''[[Gunga Jumna]]'' (1961).<ref name="Teo">{{cite book|last=Teo|first=Stephen|title=Eastern Westerns: Film and Genre Outside and Inside Hollywood|date=2017|publisher=[[Taylor & Francis]]|isbn=9781317592266|page=122|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pi8lDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122|language=en|access-date=2017-11-27|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130151204/https://books.google.com/books?id=pi8lDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA122|archive-date=2017-11-30|url-status=live}}</ref> Other popular films in this genre included [[Raj Kapoor]]’s ''[[Jis Desh Mein Ganga Behti Hai]]'' (1961) and [[Moni Bhattacharjee]]'s ''[[Mujhe Jeene Do]]'' (1963).<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Real Life Hero|url=http://www.screenindia.com/news/THE-REAL-LIFE-HERO/318575/|date=Jun 6, 2008|magazine=[[Screen (magazine)|Screen]]|access-date=1 October 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100303083722/http://www.screenindia.com/news/THE-REAL-LIFE-HERO/318575/|archive-date=3 March 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

Pakistani actor [[Akmal Khan]] had two dacoit films, ''[[Malangi (film)|Malangi]]'' (1965) and ''[[Imam Din Gohavia]]'' (1967). Other films in this genre included ''[[Khote Sikkay]]'' (1973), ''[[Mera Gaon Mera Desh]]'' (1971), and ''[[Kuchhe Dhaage]]'' (1973) both by [[Raj Khosla]].

The most famous dacoit film is ''[[Sholay]]'' (1975), written by [[Salim–Javed]], and starring [[Dharmendra]], [[Amitabh Bachchan]], and [[Amjad Khan (actor)|Amjad Khan]] as the dacoit character [[Gabbar Singh (character)|Gabbar Singh]]. It was a [[masala film]] that combined the dacoit film conventions of ''Mother India'' and ''Gunga Jumna'' with that of [[Spaghetti Western]]s, spawning the "Dacoit Western" genre,<ref name="Teo"/> also known as the "Curry Western" genre. The film also borrowed elements from [[Akira Kurosawa]]'s ''[[Seven Samurai]]''.<ref name="nyt">{{cite news|title=G. P. Sippy, Indian Filmmaker Whose ''Sholay'' Was a Bollywood Hit, Dies at 93 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/arts/27Sippy.html |work=[[The New York Times]] |access-date=23 February 2011 |first=Haresh |last=Pandya |date=27 December 2007 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110828135232/http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/27/arts/27Sippy.html |archive-date=28 August 2011 }}</ref> ''Sholay'' became a classic in the genre, and its success led to a surge of films in this genre, including ''[[Ganga Ki Saugandh]]'' (1978), once again starring Amitabh Bachchan and Amjad Khan.

An internationally acclaimed example of the genre is ''[[Bandit Queen]]'' (1994).

The Tamil movie starring [[Karthi]], ''[[Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru]]'' (2017) deals elaborately with bandits. The film reveals the real dacoity incidents which held in Tamil Nadu between 1995 and 2005. Director [[H. Vinoth|Vinoth]] did a two-year research about bandits to develop the script.

A related genre of crime films are [[Mumbai underworld films]].