By Genre
The Best Bollywood
Sports Films
7 films in the canon are filed under Sports, from 2001 to 2017.
7 films in this canon are filed under Sports, running from 2001 to 2017. The highest-ranked is Lagaan (2001) at #13 — A drought-struck village bets three years of tax on a cricket match against its colonisers.
The genre is spread across the 2000s, 2010s, with Ashutosh Gowariker, Shimit Amin, Anurag Kashyap, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra 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.
| Rank | Film | Year | Director | Genre |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | Lagaan लगान | 2001 | Ashutosh Gowariker | Drama, Sports |
| 56 | Chak De! India चक दे! इंडिया | 2007 | Shimit Amin | Sports, Drama |
| 80 | Mukkabaaz मुक्केबाज़ | 2017 | Anurag Kashyap | Sports, Drama |
| 82 | Bhaag Milkha Bhaag भाग मिल्खा भाग | 2013 | Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra | Biography, Sports |
| – | Iqbal इक़बाल | 2005 | Nagesh Kukunoor | Sports, Drama |
| – | Kai Po Che! काई पो चे! | 2013 | Abhishek Kapoor | Drama, Sports |
| – | Dangal दंगल | 2016 | Nitesh Tiwari | Sports, Biography |
Film record Wikipedia — the article linked from each film page · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial The ranking and the case made for each placement — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
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