While released slightly before the streaming boom, Vidya Balan’s Kahaani is the godmother of this genre. Balan plays Vidya Bagchi, a pregnant woman hunting for her missing husband in the labyrinthine streets of Kolkata during Durga Puja.

The trend peaked during a period when the Malayalam film industry saw a surge in low-budget "shake" films [1, 4].

Here’s a draft for a blog post or social media article exploring the intersection you mentioned — specifically focusing on the phrase “actress midnight target entertainment” as a lens into certain niches of Bollywood cinema.