Films tend to select and exaggerate. In Satya, for instance, the hero is an ordinary man trying to make a decent living in Mumbai. At every step, however, the odds stack up frighteningly leaving him with no option but to turn to crime. In Vastav too, the hero is first the victim of the local bully, then the police, who don't spare even his parents, and the politician. It is suggested that jobs can only be procured through bribes.
Crime seems the only succour.
And perhaps the reason why they aren't being aired at all is because of the gap between that world and that of the English newspaper-reading middle class. The two worlds are oceans apart. Once in a while when the two collide as in, say, a Ramesh Kini gets killed, there is a bit of an uproar. And then it is separate ways again. For once, Bollywood is doing its bit.