When was the last time you saw a Bollywood heist film led by women? Can’t recall any? As per our research, that’s because this is a genre that has never been tapped. Overseas, Oceans Eight, Thelma & Louise, Hustlers, Widow and Mad Money ventured into this lesser-known space and set a precedent. Back home, we finally have Crew, a heist comedy headlined by Tabu, Kareena Kapoor Khan and Kriti Sanon. It’s refreshing and genre-defining for sure but is it worthy of joining this coterie? The chances are slim.

What’s indeed refreshing is that – and at the cost of sounding like a prude – we finally have a feminist film that doesn’t need to resort to constant banal chatter about libido, orgasms, G-spots, singlehood and boyfriends. Nor is Crew like a didactic narrative about women empowerment. Set against the backdrop of the aviation industry, it revolves around in-flight supervisor Geeta Sethi, senior flight attendant Jasmine Rana and junior flight attendant Divya Bajwa, all of who works with Kohinoor Airlines.

Geeta stays with her loving and supportive husband Arun who runs a cloud kitchen after he was cut off from his family by his brother. Jasmine lives with her maternal grandfather and aspires to be a rich CEO of her own company someday. She’s street smart, sassy and has no qualms defying morals to progress in her life. Divya was a school topper and had always dreamed of being a pilot. But as luck would have it, she’s an airhostess. She, however, has lied to her parents that she, in fact, is a pilot just so that they don’t get their hearts broken.