The Best Bollywood
Sports Films

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.