Be it a raw agent on mission like Raazi, or military and force-based movie like Border, films have always brought out a patriotic side in each one of us.
Movies have been instrumental in bringing about social change and evoke the feeling of patriotism with its strong and powerful content and great performances. As you cheer your favourites, spare a thought this Republic Day Weekend for 26 movies you might have missed and flag it up on you must watch list.
Jhansi Ki Rani (1953)
Jhansi Ki Rani (1953) a Hindi historical drama film is based on the life of Manu and how Rajguru trains Manu, a young girl, in physical combat and political leadership who becomes the queen of Jhansi and fights against the tyranny of the British regime.
Release date: 24-01-1953
Directed by– Sohrab Modi
Produced by– Sohrab Modi
Starring
Methab, Sohrab Modi, Mubarak, Sapur, Ram Singh, Baby Shikha, Anil Kishore
Haqeeqat (1964)
Haqeeqat (1964) was a Hindi war-film about a platoon fighting the Sino-Indian war of 1962 who was presumed dead in the hilly terrains of Ladakh but was rescued by the tribal. Captain Bahadur Singh and Angmo hold the fort so the platoon can fall back.
Release date: 29-12-1964
Directed by– Chetan Anand
Produced by– Chetan Anand
Starring
Balraj Sahni, Dharmendra, Priya Rajvansh, Sudhir, Sanjay Khan andVijay Anand.
Gandhi (1982)
Gandhi (1982) was an epic historical drama film based on the life of Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi. His journey for him returning to British India from South Africa and starting the nationwide campaign of non-violent resistance against British rule. The campaign pressures Britain to liberate India.
Release date: 30-11-1982
Directed by– Richard Attenborough
Produced by– Richard Attenborough
Starring
Ben Kingsley, Rohini Hattangadi, Roshan Seth, Saeed Jaffrey, Virendra Razdan, Candice Bergen, Edward Fox, John Gielgud
Border (I) (1997)
Border (I) (1997) an Indian war film about A band of 120 Indian soldiers in Longewala region defend their post all night until they receive assistance from the Indian Air Force the next morning. a movie defining the hardships of the soldiers.
Release date: 13-6-1997
Directed by– J.P. Dutta
Produced by– J.P. Dutta
Starring
Sunny Deol, Jackie Shroff, Sudesh Berry, Suniel Shetty, Akshaye Khanna, Puneet Issar
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001)
Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India (2001) an Indian historical sports film. about a farmer named Bhuvan who accepts the challenge of Captain Andrew Russell to beat his team in a game of cricket to free his village to paying taxes for the next three years.
Release date: 16-6-2001
Directed by– Ashutosh Gowariker
Produced by– Aamir Khan
Starring
Aamir Khan, Raghuvir Yadav, Gracy Singh, Rachel Shelley
Gadar – Ek Prem Katha (2001)
Gadar – Ek Prem Katha (2001) an Indian period action drama film based during partition time, a love story of Tara and Sakina. who were living a happy life until Sakina’s father forces her to stay in Pakistan and separates her from her family?
Release date: 15-6-2001
Directed by– Anil Sharma
Produced by– Nitin Keni
Starring
Sunny Deol, Ameesha Patel, Amish Puri, Jaideep Singh
The Legend of Bhagat Singh (2002)
The movie will take you back to per-independence time. The story is about a young boy Bhagat Singh who was born in British India and witnesses numerous atrocities during his childhood. The film shows how he grows up to become one of the most fearless freedom fighters to take birth in India.
Release date: 7-6-2002
Directed by– Rajamur Santoshi
Produced by– Kumar Taurani; Ramesh Taurani
Starring
Sushant Singh, D. Santosh, Akhilendra Mishra, Raj Babbar, Farida Jalal, Amrita Rao, Mukesh Tiwari, Surendra Rajan
Lakshya (2004)
The movie is about a young man, Karan who is aimless. He later joins the Indian Army on a whim but backs out when he realizes that the life of a soldier is very difficult. His backing out upsets his girlfriend and leads to conflict wither. To solve it he rejoins the army and makes her proud.
Release date: 18-6-2004
Directed by– Farhan Akhtar
Produced by– Ritesh Sidhwani
Starring
Amitabh Bachchan, Hrithik Roshan, Preity Zinta, Om Puri
Deewaar: Let’s Bring Our Heroes Back (2004)
The film is about a group of Indian soldiers who were captured during the Indo-Pak War. The movie revolves around Gaurav, whose father, Major Ranvir, has been held captive by the enemies, decides to rescue his father.
Release date: 25-6-2004
Directed by– Milan Luthria
Produced by– Gaurang Doshi
Starring
Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Akshaye Khanna, Piyush Mishra, Amrita Rao, Raghuvir Yadav, Kay Kay Menon, Nishikant Dixit, Ajit Verma
Ab Tumhare Hawale Watan Saathiyo (2004)
This movie is about the story of an Indian boy Kunal who unwillingly joins the Indian army to maintain his family’s tradition. Soon he becomes and Indian solider and finds himself fighting ruthless terrorists who want to destroy the peace and harmony between India and Pakistan.
Release date: 24-12-2004
Directed by– Anil Sharma
Produced by– Akshay Kumar, Anil Sharma, Sanjay Sharma and KC Sharma
Starring
Amitabh Bachchan, Akshay Kumar and Bobby Deol
Mangal Pandey: The Rising (2005)
The film Mangal Pandey has strong emotions like friendship, love, loss and betrayal. The story is of an of Indian origin sepoy who fights against British rule and saves the life of his British commanding officer, leading to a strong friendship between him and the officer.
Release date: 12-8-2005
Directed by– Ketan Mehta
Produced by– Bobby Bedi, Ketan Mehta
Starring
Aamir Khan,Rani Mukerji, Ameesha Patel. Jwala, Kiron Kher, Om Puri
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero (2005)
Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose: The Forgotten Hero is an Indian biographical war film. The film revolves around Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose’s life after he resigns from the presidential post of the Indian National Congress. The film shows how Subhas plays an important role in India’s freedom struggle during World War II.
Release date: 13-5-2005
Directed by– Shyam Benegal
Produced by–Raj Pius; Barbara von Wrangell
Starring Sachin Khedekar, Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Rajit Kapur, Arif Zakaria, and Divya Dutta
Rang De Basanti (2006)
Rang de basanti was an Indian drama film. The film was about how a few students unwittingly awakens their patriotism when they were selected to portray various Indian freedom fighters in a film by Sue and how this emotional and mental process turns them into rebels for a cause.
Release date: 26-1-2006
Directed by– Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Produced by– Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Starring
Aamir Khan, Sharman Joshi, Soha Ali Khan, Madhavan, Anupam Kher, Om Puri
1971 (2007)
Indian Hindi war drama film which was based on true facts, the movie revolves around 6 brave soldiers who escape from the clutches of the Pakistan Army and risk death with honour and courage with sacrifice towards their journey home.
Release date: 9-3-2007
Directed by– Amrit Sagar
Produced by– Amrit Sagar
Starring
Manoj Bajpayee, Ravi Kishan, Piyush Mishra, Deepak Dobriyal, Chittaranjan Giri Manav Kaul, Kumud Mishra, Vivek Mishra
A Wednesday! (2008)
A Wednesday is an Indian thriller film about a retired police commissioner named Prakash Rathod who recounts the most memorable case of his career wherein he was informed about a bomb scare in Mumbai by an ordinary commoner.
Release date: 5-9-2008
Directed by– Neeraj Pandey
Produced by– Shital Bhatia
Starring
Naseeruddin Shah and Anupam Kher
Chittagong (2012)
The movie is aIndian historical war drama film about Jhunku. She is a 14-year-old youth in 1930s British Bangladesh who embarks on a journey to determine where she belongs to.
Release date: 12-10-2012
Directed by– Bedabrata Pain
Produced by– Shonali Bose
Starring
Manoj Bajpayee, Barry John, Helen Jones, Delzad Hiwale, Vijay Verma, Dibyendu Bhattacharya, Vishal Vijay,Vega Tamotia
Holiday a soldier is never off duty (2014)
Holiday an Indian action thriller film about Virat, a soldier who accidentally bumps into a terrorist who plans to rip apart Mumbai with a series of blasts. He then gathers his team to protect the city from the impending danger.
Release date: 16-6-2014
Directed by– A. R. Murugadoss
Produced by– Vipul Shah
Starring
Akshay Kumar, Sonakshi Sinha, Saiba Thapar, Freddy Daruwala, Sumeet Raghava
Airlift (2016)
Airlift is an Indian political thriller film about Ranjit Katiyal, an Indian businessman who was leading a happy and successful life in Kuwait with his family. However, when Iraq invades Kuwait, he decides to risk his life to save his stranded countrymen.
Release date: 22-1-2016
Directed by– Raja Krishna Menon
Produced by– Monisha Advani
Starring
Akshay Kumar, Ranjit Katyal, Nimrat Kaur. Kumud Mishra, Sanjeev Kohli, Prakash Belawadi. Inaamulhaq, Major Khalaf Bin Zayd, Lena, Nissar Khan, Ninad Kamat, Kaizaad Kotwal. Poonawalla, Feryna Wazheir, Ajay Kumar
Rustom (2016)
Rustom is a film about a naval officer who shares a happy relationship with his wife Cynthia. Things change when he discovers her affair with Vikram, a close friend, and is accused of murdering him.
Release date: 12-8-2016
Directed by– Tinu Suresh Desai
Produced by– Neeraj Pandey
Starring
Akshay Kumar and Ileana D’Cruz
The Ghazi Attack (2017)
This movie is an underwater thriller largely showing the interiors of an Indian Naval submarine. It revolves around the 1971 Ghazi attack. It leaves you in awe of the soldiers, who lay their lives for their country.
Release date: 17-2-2017
Directed by– Sankalp Reddy
Produced by– Anvesh Reddy
Starring
Rana Daggubati, Kay Kay Menon, Atul Kulkarni, Om Puri
Newton (2017)
The movie shows the ‘democratic’ nature of Indian government and how a government servant is sent to a politically sensitive area in central India for election duty. He attempts to hold a fair and free election despite various obstacles. The movie is a political movie showing how hard it is to take elections seriously but still the government servant make is possible without any lecturing or sloganeering.
Release date: 22-9-2017
Directed by– Amit V. Masurkar
Produced by– Manish Mundra
Starring
Rajkummar Rao, Pankaj Tripathi, Anjali Patil
Raazi (2018)
In this film Alia Bhatt play the role of Sehmat Khan. Who is an undercover RAW agent? It shows how she gets married into a Pakistani family by her father so that she can get some valuable piece of information about the enemy. The film is a hard-hitting film with beautifully shows the life of a female RAW and how much she loves her nation.
Release date: 11-5-2017
Directed by– Megha Gulzar
Produced by– Vineet Jain, Karan Johar
Starring
Alia Bhatt, Vicky Kaushal, Rajit Kapoor
Mulk (2018)
This film is based on a real life. It revolves around the strong plot that how a Muslim family is trying to reclaim its lost honor after a family member gets involved in terrorism. The film shows that the family lives in a densely-populated diverse locality of Varanasi with Hindu neighbors and how Murad Ali Mohammed and his daughter-in-law try to prove their innocence after their family gets accused of having ties with extremist groups.
Release date: 3-8-2017
Directed by– Anubhav Sinha
Produced by– Amit J. Chaudhary
Starring
Taapsee Pannu, Rishi Kapoor, Rajat Kapoor, Ashutosh Rana
Parmanu: The Story Of Pokhran (2018)
This film is full of emotions and has a sense of national pride. The film is based on how the nuclear test was setup in Pokhran back in 1995. The movie shows how after facing several challenges, the team was successful in the nuclear test establishing India as a new superpower.
Release date: 22-9-2017
Directed by– Amit V. Masurkar
Produced by– Manish Mundra
Starring
John Abraham, Himanshu Shukla, Boman Irani, Diana Penty
Uri: The Surgical Strike (2019)
This film is on the dishonest and unprincipled terrorist attacks at Uri Army Base camp in Kashmir, India. The movie shows how India took the fight to the enemy, in its most successful covert operation till date with one and only one objective of avenging their fallen heroes. This surgical strike is show in the film making each India proud.
Release date: 11-1-2019
Directed by– Aditya Dhar
Produced by– Ronnie Screwvala
Starring
Vicky Kaushal, Yami Gautam, Paresh Rawal, Mohit Raina
Manikarnika (2019)
The movie is all about the life of Rani Lakshmibai. She was one of the key leaders in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The movie will show how bravery she fought the war against British army.
Release date: 25-1-2019
Directed by– Kangana Ranaut and Krish
Produced by– Kamal Jain, Niahant Patti
Starring
Kangana Ranaut, Jisshu Sengupta, Sonu Sood, Ankita Lokhande
