Films with theme "Bollywood", sorted by name

, 2h32
Directed by Siddharth Anand
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about suicide, Transport films, Musical films, Road movies, Bollywood
Actors Ranbir Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Zayed Khan, Anupam Kher, Pooja Kumar, Tanvi Azmi

Anjaana Anjaani is the story of Kiara (Priyanka Chopra) and Akash (Ranbir Kapoor). Kiara is based in San Francisco, while Akash is a New York City boy. Akash has to clear a loan of $12 million, which he is unable to partly due to the stock market crash. Unable to find any means, suicide seems the only option. He decides to jump off the George Washington Bridge. This is when he meets Kiara, who is also bound to commit suicide because she caught her fiancé Kunal (Zayed Khan) cheating on her. They both try to put an end to their lives but are deterred by the coastguards. Still keen on ending their lives, Akash deliberately gets hit by a car and Kiara falls on the bridge and breaks her neck. This proves to be yet another failed attempt and they end up in the hospital together. Kiara takes Akash to her house as his house was seized by the bank.

, 2h5
Directed by Shyam Benegal
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shabana Azmi, Anant Nag, Priya Tendulkar, Vijay Tendulkar, Dalip Tahil

Ankur is a film that analyzes human behavior in general and heavily stresses characterization (though the story is not fictional). The story revolves around two characters, Lakshmi and Surya. Ankur is also there.

Directed by Rituparno Gosh
Origin Inde
Genres Drama
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Jackie Shroff, Roopa Ganguly, Soha Ali Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Raima Sen, Biswajit Chakraborty

The story takes place towards the end of the 19th century in Bengal. Bhubaneswar Chowdhury (Jackie Shroff) is a rich and oppressive Zamindar (Landlord). He is planning to please the British so that they bestow on him the Raibahadur title. There are quite a few contenders and so something unique has to be done, so he decides to put Queen Victoria's face on the body of the Goddess Durga whose clay idol is made every year for Durga Pooja.

Directed by Manish Jha
Genres Drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about terrorism, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Manisha Koirala, Nauheed Cyrusi, Rajpal Yadav, Rajpal Yadav, Vijay Raaz, Yashpal Sharma

Anwar, a Muslim, lives a middle-class lifestyle in Lucknow, India, with his mother, brother, and sister-in-law, Suraiya. Anwar is researching on ancient Hindu mandirs. The family rents out a room to a poor widow and her attractive daughter, Mehru, whom Anwar falls in love with.

, 2h53
Directed by Prakash Jha
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Action, Noir, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ajay Devgn, Nana Patekar, Bipasha Basu, Yashpal Sharma, Mohan Agashe, Ayub Khan

Ajay Shastri (Ajay Devgan) is an unemployed, honest graduate who dreams of joining the police force. His father, Raghuvansh Shastri (Mohan Agashe) is a highly principled and moralistic man. An ex-schoolteacher and Gandhi follower, now a social activist, Prof. Shastri expects his son to follow in his steps and believe in his ideals and values. When his father's ideals start clashing with Ajay's ideologies, a rift between father and son emerges.

, 2h18
Genres Comedy, Musical
Themes Films about music and musicians, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Musical films, Bollywood, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Suniel Shetty, Ritesh Deshmukh, Jackie Shroff, Celina Jaitley, Koena Mitra, Riya Sen

6 Alvarez House in Bandra, Mumbai, is the residence of myopic, widowed, devout Hindu, Satyabol Shashtri (Anupam Kher), who lives there with his daughter, Shivani (Riya Sen). Shivani is in love with her Christian neighbor, Arjun Fernandes (Shreyas Talpade), who is a mechanic and lives with his wanna-be singer sister, Julie (Koena Mitra), and a younger ailing sister, Titli. Satyabol disapproves of Arjun and wants his daughter to get married to Sarju Maharaj Banaraswale's son. Other than Satyabol chasing Badshah, the pet dog of Arjun, and ending up in the woman's bathroom, the area is fairly peaceful.

Directed by Basu Chatterjee
Genres Drama, Comedy
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Amol Palekar, Shabana Azmi, Girish Karnad, Utpal Dutt, Bharati Achrekar, Manisha Koirala

, 2h30
Directed by Honey Irani
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Anil Kapoor, Preity Zinta, Gracy Singh, Aamir Bashir, Randhir Kapoor

The film is about Dr. Siddharth Sinha (Amitabh Bachchan) and his son Dr. Akash Sinha (Anil Kapoor). Both work in the same hospital founded by Siddharth. Siddharth wishes to run a state of the art hospital but his work and profession means he dedicates his time to his patients.

, 2h30
Directed by Raam Shetty
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Sridevi, Danny Denzongpa, Shahrukh Khan, Ronit Roy, Ravi Kishan, Mohnish Bahl

The story follows Arjun (Shahrukh Khan), a dutiful army officer and the brother-in-law of acclaimed Jailer Raghuvir Singh (Kiran Kumar). He is in love with Geeta (Sridevi), and they get married, and turn proud parents. Arjun soon gets involved in the bad books of a notorious gangster named Nagraj (Danny Denzongpa). Arjun starts working undercover in Nagraj's gang, but soon enough, Nagraj is informed about Arjun's real identity, and Arjun is brutally killed. When Geeta finds out she decides to avenge Arjun's death. When Nagraj finds out that Geeta is out for vengeance, he scoffs at her, refusing to believe that a lone defenseless widow can do him any harm. But Nagraj is in for a surprise when he comes face to face with Geeta and a group of young convicted men on the run who are dedicated to bring him down - even if they die trying.

, 2h51
Directed by Santosh Sivan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Action, Adventure, Historical, Musical, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Politique, Films about religion, Sports films, Martial arts films, Musical films, Political films, Films about Buddhism, Bollywood, Films about royalty
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Kareena Kapoor, Danny Denzongpa, Milind Soman, Rahul Dev, Hrishitaa Bhatt

The film chronicles the early part of the life of Emperor Asoka. It begins with his career as a General in Takshashila (modern-day Punjab) and ends with the bloody conquest of the Kalinga country (modern day Odisha State)

, 2h52
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Amitabh Bachchan, Hema Malini, Salman Khan, Sarika, Rani Mukherjee, John Abraham

Balraj Kapoor (Amitabh Bachchan) is a rich businessman, happy and content with his world. He and his wife Shobhna (Hema Malini) live happily together and they wait for their only son Avinash a.k.a. 'Avi' (Salman Khan) to return from his studies in the United States. After an absence of 7 years, Avinash comes back to India. He reunites with his parents at the airport and races home. Back home, Avi joins his father's business.

, 2h55
Directed by Abbas-Mustan
Origin Inde
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Twinkle Khanna, Rakhee Gulzar, Amrish Puri, Johnny Lever, Shashikala

Baadshah (Shahrukh Rukh Khan) is a young man still living with his mother who wishes to follow in his late father's footsteps by working as a detective. He runs Baadshah Detective Agency out of a Mumbai office full of cheesy detective gadgetry. In his employ are his loyal and helpful friends, and his chief assistant Ram Lal (Johnny Lever). Though Baadshah tries hard to pass his agency off as highly sophisticated and constantly busy, he actually receives little business, and is desperate for a big break.

, 3h
Directed by Tinu Verma
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Suniel Shetty, Karisma Kapoor, Jackie Shroff, Dino Morea, Preeti Jhangiani, Aditi Gowitrikar

This film revolves around a killer who suffers from a mental disorder which causes him to kill those who he is attracted to. Karishma Kapoor plays a girl from Delhi named Neha Chopra, who gets a new job as an interior designer at Nainital, and moves to lonely neighbourhood to pursue her career. She later falls in love with a man named Raj, who is played by Dino Morea. However, the cops inform her that he may be the killer of many young beautiful girls in the area, and she doubts the cops until something causes her to doubt him instead, so she decides to leave the city. The police officer Sunil Shetty asks her to see the condition of a sister of the killer who witnessed the murder, but is in coma. Seeing her terrible condition, Neha decides to stay and help with the case and acts as if she is in love with Raj. Raj who has lost the love from Neha has to now gain her trust back and save her from the dangers that await her.

, 2h55
Directed by Abbas-Mustan
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Shahrukh Khan, Kajol, Siddharth Ray, Shilpa Shetty, Rakhee Gulzar, Dalip Tahil

After acquiring the possession of the company owned by Vishwanath Sharma (Anant Mahadevan) using trickery, Madan Chopra (Dalip Tahil) dismisses Vishwanath from the company to exact a revenge on the latter, leaving the Sharma household to undergo distress and illness which claims the lives of Vishwanath and his little daughter. A spell of lasting grief casts over Vishwanath's wife (Rakhee Gulzar), while his son Ajay (Shah Rukh Khan) determines to take vengeance on Madan for his family's tragedy. 15 years later, a grown-up Ajay courts Seema (Shilpa Shetty), one of Madan's two daughters, while dating Priya (Kajol), the other daughter with a false individuality named Vicky Malhotra, keeping everyone ignorant of his dual-identity. The scary part of the film starts now, when a vindictive Ajay pushes Seema from a building to death making it, to all appearances, look like a suicide while Priya, with a strong belief of Seema's death to be a murder, determines to find out the killer with the help of her friend Inspector Karan (Siddharth Ray).

, 2h28
Directed by Siddharth Anand
Origin Inde
Genres Drama, Comedy, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about music and musicians, Musical films, Bollywood
Actors Ranbir Kapoor, Deepika Padukone, Bipasha Basu, Minissha Lamba, Kunal Kapoor, Bhanu Sri Mehra

The film narrates the journey of a young man named Raj Sharma (Ranbir Kapoor), who meets three young women at different stages in his life: Mahi (Minissha Lamba), a small-town girl from Punjab; Radhika (Bipasha Basu), an aspiring model in Mumbai; and Gayatri (Deepika Padukone), a non-resident Indian student in Australia. It is the story of a ladies' man who runs from one conquest to another only to crash into true love.