Dahaad (transl. 'Roar') is a Hindi-language police procedural crime thriller television series created by Reema Kagti and Zoya Akhtar, directed by Kagti and Ruchika Oberoi, and starring Sonakshi Sinha, Gulshan Devaiah, Vijay Varma and Sohum Shah. It is inspired by Mohan Kumar, also known as Cyanide Mohan, a serial killer who preyed on women looking to get married.

Dahaad is the first ever Indian streaming series to premiere at Berlin International film festival, where it competed for Berlinale Series Award. It was released on Amazon Prime Video on 12 May 2023. It received positive reviews from critics. At the 2023 Filmfare OTT Awards, Dahaad won two awards (for Sinha and Varma's performances) from nine nominations. According to IMDb, Dahaad has been renewed for a second season and production is underway.

In Mandawa, a small village in the state of Rajasthan, Sub-Inspector Anjali Bhaati comes across a case in which twenty-seven women across the state have disappeared without a trace, yet the locals seem unfazed. However, everything changes when Bhaati finds a common thread connecting all the cases, leading her to suspect that a serial killer may be on the loose. This revelation shifts her attention from unexplained disappearances to a well-planned and calculated scheme.

Anjali, in her thirties, rebels against the traditional background of her village, making it difficult for her mother to find a suitable groom. She also faces discrimination due to her caste. However, she remains a strong-headed cop.

Two parallel cases emerge, intertwined by fate. A brother from a scheduled caste reports that his sister is missing. In the other case, inter-caste love blossoms between a villager's daughter and a Muslim man. Anjali and her colleague Devi Singh help the Muslim man escape and focuses on the other case.

She discovers a pattern among the missing women: all of them belonged to lower castes, were aged above 25, unable to marry due to poverty and their families' inability to pay a dowry, and emotionally vulnerable. Tracing each victim's phone number to a previous victim, she realises that the 27 women were all killed the day after they eloped with their lovers. They all died from cyanide poisoning.

While some believe it is the work of a gang, Anjali suspects a lone psychopath. She argues that the killer has adhered to a meticulous plan without making a single mistake. She believes that the participation of a gang would increase the chances of errors, unlike this case.

Anand Swarnakar, a college lecturer with a wife and son, teaches underprivileged children. His wife Vandana has an affair with a coworker named Jai.