About Guns and Gulaabs
Guns and Gulaabs is a Hindi-language retro crime-comedy created by the writer-director duo Raj and DK for Netflix, released in 2023. Set in a fictional north Indian small town during the 1990s, the series blends nostalgic period detailing with the duo's trademark mix of dark humor, eccentric characters, and pulpy genre play. The story unfolds around a single high-stakes opium deal that pulls together a lovelorn mechanic, an idealistic narcotics officer, a teenage outsider, and a roster of bumbling and ruthless gangsters.
True to its title, the show pairs the menace of guns with the sweetness of gulaabs, the Hindi word for roses, contrasting tender, comic romance with the violence simmering around the local crime economy. Raj and DK lean into stylized period production design, a vintage soundtrack, and a tone that swings between slapstick and tension as the characters' separate schemes begin to overlap and unravel.
Across its seven episodes the first season follows several loosely connected threads that converge on the same deal, with each character chasing love, duty, money, or survival. The series was positioned as the first installment of an anthology-style world, and a continuation has been announced, with the ensemble cast and the town of Gulaabganj at the heart of the ongoing story.