Technically, crime as a whole in fiction has a long history which all started in the mid 1950s. However, my focus here is on Crime on Bollywood only. Crime in Bollywood is very different from Crime in any other film industry. There are no sets of written theories or anything organized regarding crime on Bollywood officially, hence, the emergence of crime in Bollywood films is unsettled yet.
However, Bollywood in reality has it's relations to the 'underworld' (criminal world) in India and may establish a link between the style of crime in Bollywood films (http://www.sify.com/movies/crimes-in-bollywood-news-bollywood-kkfvKaihida.html). Crime in Bollywood films is gritty, unlike Hollywood, Bollywood has it's own ways. Crime in Bollywood is a close look into the tactical and practical crime that goes on the streets of India (and very much Pakistan). The grittiness of these crimes portrayed on Film often incorporate slums, gritty streets, India's 'local' train service in Mumbai, item songs, guns, blood and specifically slow-motion cinematic dramatizing in recent crime films (such as Rakht Charitra by Ram Gopal Verma). The word 'Bhai' has been widely used for criminal bosses and criminals in the movies while there tends to be a balance in between content and stylizing, tilting more towards style than content. In Bollywood, films (similar to Hollywood conventions) criminals tend to be street smart, but in almost every crime film released in Bollywood, the criminal seems paying respect to his social group in the locality. Crime warfare is also common in Bollywood, such as in the film Plan(2004) by Hridey Shetty and Baabarr(2009) by Ashu Trikha.
As stated before, Bollywood has no set genre conventions for crime except for it's iconography and setting, therefore it is hard to find out crude conventions in Bollywood.
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