Bollywood movies based on true stories and real-life events

Sara and Sushant star in this love story which is centred around the Uttarakhand floods in 2013

Kangana Ranaut stars as the eponymous Rani Laxmibai who fought the British army to save her Jhansi

Based on the Battle of Saragarhi, Akshay Kumar with 21 Sikh warriors battled against Afghan soldiers

A film based on Arunachalam Muruganantham, who produced low-cost sanitary napkins for women in his community

Neerja, based on a cabin crew who died protecting the passengers during the 1986 Pan American flight hijack

Haseena Parkar, is based on the life of Dawood Ibrahim’s sister of the same name.

The Ghazi Attack, is based on the mysterious sinking of an Indian submarine PNS Ghazi.

A young Kashmiri girl trained as a spy and sent to Pakistan. The film was inspired by real events.

Nawazuddin Siddiqui as late poet and author who struggled with his existential crises during partition