The Best Bollywood
Action Films

10 films in this canon are filed under Action, running from 1973 to 2023. The highest-ranked is Sholay (1975) at #1 — The Curry Western that became the country's shared memory.

The genre is spread across the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2020s, with Yash Chopra (2), Ramesh Sippy, Shekhar Kapur, Manmohan Desai doing the heaviest lifting. Hindi cinema rarely respects a single genre for a whole runtime, so most of these titles are cross-filed — follow the tags on any film page to find its neighbours.

Every entry links out to Wikipedia, IMDb, a trailer and a legal streaming search. See also the full ranked 100 and how we scored them.