33 Bollywood Sports Movies That You Must Watch Right Now

Bollywood Sports Movies, the movies made in the Bollywood Industry which are dedicated to the various sports played.

Some of the movies you might know are the Biographies or the true stories of any sportsperson, like, Dangal, Mary Kom, MS Dhoni: The Untold Story, and many more.

On the other hand, some of the Bollywood Sports Movies are fictitious and not based on any sports personalities, which are, Chain Kulii Ki Main Kulii, Dil Bole Haddippa, Toofan, etc.

When it comes to seeking inspiration, it doesn’t matter if the Bollywood Sports Movies you watched or going to watch are any biopic or any fictitious movie. Both categories of Bollywood Sports Movies will elevate your inspiration level and also help you in gaining interest in that particular sport and will also motivate you to at least try playing that sport.

This same thing happened to me also after watching these Bollywood Sports Movies.

The movies which are going to be listed for you are some of the Best Bollywood Sports Movies of all time, which not only loved by the Indians but also got too much love and support from the foreign and the neighboring countries as well. So, the following is the list of some of the Best Bollywood Sports Movies you should watch right now.

1) Dangal (2016)

Dangal is a movie based on the Phogat family, where Mahavir Singh Phogat (Aamir Khan), an amateur wrestler who gave up his dreams due to financial instability. Then, he works really hard and raises his daughters Geeta Phogat (Fatima Sana Sheikh) and Babita Phogat (Sanya Malhotra) as India’s best female wrestlers.

Dangal is the highest-grossing Bollywood Movie till now.

2) Lagaan (2001)

Starring Aamir Khan, this is one of the best fictional movies from Bollywood Sports Movies, which depicts the days of British rule in India. In this movie, there was a Cricket Match organized between the British team and the team of locals, to abolish the Lagaan (tax).

Lagaan also got nominated for the Oscar Awards.

3) Bhaag Milkha Bhaag (2013)

This movie is based on the life of an Indian Athlete, Milkha Singh who is the twice champion of the Asian Games, a one-time winner of Commonwealth Games, and an Olympian. The Role of Milkha Singh is Played by Farhan Akhtar in this movie, which was superb.

This story is really inspirational as it highlights the struggles of Milkha Singh from a child who lost his parents, birthplace, and love, but still, without losing hope, he works hard on his dream to represent India.

4) Chak De India (2007)

Being inspired by the Indian team’s performance in the 2002 Commonwealth Games, it is a fictional movie starring Shah Rukh Khan as a coach of the Indian Women's Team. This movie also highlights the themes of Sexism and Feminism, showing how the Indian women Hockey team became World Champions overcoming every challenge in their journey.

5) Paan Singh Tomar (2012)

This movie is the biography of Paan Singh Tomar, an Indian Soldier, who participated in the National Games and shows exceptional skills and dedication towards the game. In 1967, he got a chance to participate in International Military Games and won the Gold medal as well. Irfan Khan Played the role of Paan Singh Tomar in this movie.

6) Jo Jeeta Vo Sikandar (1992)

Aamir Khan as a leading role, played Sanjay in this movie, a useless boy in the first half, but later on works really hard on himself and starts preparing for the Cycle racing competition which is going to be organized.

As a result, surpassing Shekhar Malhotra, Sanjay lifted the title of that competition, which was the dream of his elder brother Ratan and his father Ram.

7) Iqbal (2005)

This fictional movie is a story of a cricket-obsessed boy Iqbal (Shreyas Talpade), who was deaf and mute since his birth. Still, he wants to become a pacer, having a dream to represent India with his bowling skills. Even after a lot of challenges he faced, still he works really hard and finds his place in the Indian Cricket team.

Iqbal was awarded the title of ‘Best Movies on Social Issues’.

8) Saala Khadoos (2016)

Sala Khadoos is a Bollywood Sports Movie based on boxing sport. Here, Aditya (R. Madhwan) is a boxing coach who used to give tough training to his students and used to be very harsh when it comes to their training. On the other hand, Ezhil Madhi (Reetika Singh), was an aspiring boxer, who lives in a lower-middle-class family. This movie shows us how a coach made an ordinary girl, a boxing champion.

9) MS Dhoni: The Untold Story (2016)

Starring Sushant Singh Rajput, this movie is the biopic of the best wicketkeeper-batsman and one of the best captains of the world, Mahendra Singh Dhoni, which receives great love from the Cricket fans, especially from Thala fans.

The best part of this movie is, even after getting a Government job at Indian Railways, he didn’t give up on his dream and left his job for Cricket.

10) Hawaa-Hawaai (2014)

Directed by Amole Gupte, Hawaa-Hawaai is based on skating, where a boy Arjun Harishchandra Waghmore (Partho Gupte) aspires to be a skater, with the help of his coach Ankit Bhargava (Sakib Saleem) and made him complete in skating.

11) Kai Po Che! (2013)

This one of Bollywood Sports Movies is based on cricket, where we can see Sushant Singh Rajput as Ishaan (Ish) Bhatt, who was an ex-district level cricketer but became a victim of religious politics and communal hatred. Other actors are Amit Sadh as Omkar (Omi) Shastri and Raj Kumar Rao as Govind (Govi) Patel.

Kai Po Che is based on the novel, “3 Mistakes of My Life”, written by Chetan Bhagat (2008).

12) Mary Kom (2014)

This movie is the biography of Indian Boxing Champion “Mary Kom”, whose role is played by actress Priyanka Chopra. After winning the Women’s World’s Ameature Boxing Championship, she got married and got blessed with twins. Then she made her comeback in boxing and achieved new peaks in her boxing career.

13) Mukkabaaz (2017)

A fictional story of a local boxer, Sharvan Kumar Singh (played by Vineet Kumar Singh). Being a local boxer, he works for local politicians and for the head of the State Boxing federation. In the whole story, you’ll get to know about how Sharvan overcame his challenges and won the Boxing Championship.

14) Sultan (2016)

Sultan is a story of a wrestler Sultan Ali Khan (Salman Khan) and his wife Aarfa Ali Khan (Anushka Sharma). Here, Aarfa has to quit wrestling because of the pregnancy, while Sultan continues his wrestling and won gold in the Olympics too.

But later, his son got dead due to a deficiency of O-ve blood and Sultan also quit wrestling. Further, after passing some years, he made his comeback and won the championship like a fighter and donated the whole money he won for Blood Bank.

15) Soorma (2018)

Biographical movie on Hockey, in which Diljit Dosanjh played the role of Sandeep Singh, who is often known as the Flicker Singh of India. During the leaving for World Cup, he accidentally shot on his lower back and his lower half of the body got paralyzed.

Still, he didn’t give up on Hockey and made his comeback in 2007. He also received the Arjuna Award from the President of India for his dedication to the country.

16) Brothers (2015)

Brothers movie is the official remake of the American film “Warrior”, which got released in 2011. This is the movie of two brothers David Fernandes (Akshay Kumar) and Monty Fernandes (Siddharth Malhotra), who face each other in the Street fighting legal sport named Right 2 Fight (R2F).

17) Gold (2018)

One of the most inspiring Bollywood Sports Movies on Hockey, along with Soorma, this movie is also based on true incidents. When the Indian hockey team beats Germany in the final of the 1936 Olympics, the British National Anthem is played.

After this, coach Tapan Das (Akshay Kumar) was disappointed because of the British Anthem played. After the struggles of 12 years, when India again won Gold in the Olympics, the Indian National Anthem is played.

18) Apne (2007)

This is the movie about the former Olympic medalist, Boxer Baldev Choudhary (Dharmendra), and his sons Angad and Karan. Baldev had to quit Boxing forcefully due to the falsely accused of Drug doping. Later, he raised his both sons Angad and Karan, as boxing stars.

19) Patiala House (2011)

Patiala House is one of the best comedy movies from Bollywood Sports Movies. In this movie, Akshay Kumar plays the role of a fast bowler, who wishes to be in the England Cricket Team.

Patiala House is based on the life of Monty Panesar.

20) Chain Kulli Ki Main Kulli (2007)

Starring Zain Khan as Karan and Rahul Bose as Varun Roy, this movie depicts the story of how an aspiring cricketer Karan got a magical bat, and with its help, he got selected for the series against Pakistan.

But as the conclusion, Varun made Karan realize that there is no magic in the bat, the magic lies inside you.

21) Azhar (2016)

One more of the Biographical Bollywood Sports Movies, Azhar is the story based on the life of earlier captain of the Indian Cricket team, Mohammad Azharuddin, played by Emraan Hashmi.

Azhar's movie mainly focuses on the allegations put on him for match-fixing and how he challenges his ban in court.

22) Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007)

Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal is the Bollywood Sports Movies, which are based on Football games. This movie stars John Abraham as Sunny Bhasin, Bipasha Basu as Rumana, and Arshad Warsi as Shaan Ali Khan, which is a contemporary story of a South Asian community living in the United Kingdom (U.K.).

23) Panga (2020)

One of the Best Bollywood Sports Movies on Kabaddi, when it comes to Women Empowerment. Here Kangana Ranaut played Jaya Nigam, a Kabaddi passionate girl who used to play Kabaddi in her college period, before marriage. Then, she came back again after 7 years, with the support of her son and husband, and also won the title.

24) Dil Bole Haddipa (2009)

In this movie, Veera Kaur (Rani Mukharjee), was a passionate and young village girl, who despite being so talented, wasn't allowed to play cricket, just because she was a woman. To get in the team, she disguises herself as a boy, Veer Pratap Singh.

An eye-opening movie from Bollywood Sports Movies, for those who think that women can’t compete with men in sports.

25) Chamatkar (1992)

Chamatkar is one of the most extraordinary movies when it comes to Bollywood Sports Movies, where Shah Rukh Khan was seen in the role of Sunder Shrishtava, a young graduate whose dream is to fulfill his father’s dream by opening a school in his land. This match is based on the Cricket sport, having a lot of suspense.

26) Jannat (2008)

Starring Emraan Hashmi as Arjun Dixit and Sonal Chauhan as Zoya Mathur, this movie of Bollywood Sports Movies is based on the Cricket game and includes betting on it. Here Arjun meets Don Abu Ibrahim (Javed Sheikh) in South Africa and becomes the key match-fixer.

27) Budhia Singh: Born to Run (2016)

Biography of the World’s youngest Athlete, Budhia Singh (played by Mayur Patole), started his journey as an athlete when he was just 5 years of age and ran 48 marathons. Manoj Bajpayee is featured as Biranchi Das, the mentor of Budhia Singh in this movie.

28) Toofan (2021)

The upcoming movie from Bollywood Sports Movies, where Farhan Akthar is going to be featured as Aziz Ali, a national-level boxer, and Paresh Rawal as his coach. Due to COVID-19, this movie got delayed about a year and is going to release in September 2021.

29) Saand Ki Aankh (2019)

A Biographical movie on Shooting, based on the lives of Chandra Tomar (Bhumi Pednekar) and Prakashi Tomar (Tapsee Pannu), who, in their older age, realized their shooting skills and passion towards the game. They came back in Shooting after hitting their old age and participated in many Championships also.

30) Sachin: A Billion Dreams

The movie is a documentary on the journey of our very favorite Little Master aka God Of Cricket, Sachin Ramesh Tendulkar. It's a must-watch movie for the youngsters who want to start their career as a cricketer as they can learn a lot from it.

31) Saina (2021)

This is also an upcoming movie from Bollywood Sports Movies, based on the life of Indian Badminton Player, Saina Nehwal (Parineeti Chopra in the role). Same as Toofan, this movie was also gonna be released in 2020 but got delayed for 2021.

32) Shabaash Mithu (2021)

Another sports biopic on the life of one of the Best Women Cricketers, Captain of Indian Team, Mithali Raj. Where we can see Tapsee Pannu playing her character. This movie will depict how Mithali Raj did a lot of hard work and made her debut in the National team, even in her teenage.

33) 83 (2021)

One of the most awaited movies from Bollywood Sports Movies, which the Cricket fans are waiting for since 2019 itself. Here Ranveer Singh is going to play the role of Kapil Dev, who made India the World Champion in his captaincy in the 1983 Cricket World Cup.

Above is the list of some of the best Bollywood Sports Movies, which you must watch at least once. These Bollywood Sports Movies will surely gonna help you in lifting you up, whenever you find yourself at the low point of your life.

You might observe that Bollywood Sports Movies are far more impactful and add value in your life if compared to the other Bollywood Movies which are just for entertainment purposes. This is just because Bollywood Sports Movies make us introduce the real-life challenges that come in the life of a person who had big dreams.

If you are confused about which type of Bollywood Sports Movies you should watch, biographical or fictional? Then, biographies are most preferred from my side, as it reflects the real-life struggle they did to achieve their dream. But fictional Bollywood Sports Movies are nothing less than the biographies, it’s up to you which you should watch.

In conclusion, I hope you liked this article on Bollywood Sports movies. These are some of the best movies made in Bollywood regarding sports, which I personally liked too much and that’s why sharing the list with you also, to add some positive values in your life.

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