Women Centric Movies - Hindi
Gunjan Saxena: The Kargil Girl (2020)
IMDB: 5.2
Genre: Biography, Drama
Starring: Janhvi Kapoor, Pankaj Tripathi, Angad Bedi, Vineet Kumar Singh, Manav Vij
Based on the life of Gunjan Saxena, a flying officer, who became the first woman combat aviator to fly into a war zone during the 1999 Kargil War. She was later honoured with the Shaurya Vir award by the Indian government for displaying exemplary courage during war time.
AvailableOn: Netflix
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IMDB: 6.2
Genre: Biography, Drama
Starring: Vidya Balan, Jisshu Sengupta, Sanya Malhotra, Amit Sadh
Based on the life of Shakuntala Devi (Vidya Balan), a mathematics genius, writer and astrologer who was popularly known as the human computer.
AvailableOn: Prime Video
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IMDB: 6.9
Genre: Sport, Drama
Starring: Kangana Ranaut, Jassi Gill, Richa Chadda, Neena Gupta
Jaya Nigam (Kangana Ranaut), a former captain of National kabaddi team, now juggles her life between her family and punching tickets at Bhopal railway station. Her world revolves around her family. Adi, a son of Jaya. The young kid now wants his mother to give a second shot at chasing her dream. She decides to make a comeback but will it be an easy ride back into the national team.
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IMDB: 7.2
Genre: Drama
Starring: Taapsee Pannu, Pavail Gulati, Ratna Pathak Shah
Thappad is a story of Amrita whose seemingly perfect life is shattered when her husband slaps her once in a party. But is one slap enough to question what a relationship stands for?
AvailableOn: Prime Video
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IMDB: 5.0
Genre: Drama
Starring: Deepika Padukone, Vikrant Massey
Malti (Deepika Padukone), a nineteen-year-old girl takes a turn when she is subjected to a horrific acid attack. She takes a job helping other survivors and, with a team of female lawyers, tries to change Indian law to reflect the seriousness of the violence committed against her.
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IMDB: 7.4
Genre: Action, Thriller
Starring: Rani Mukerji, Vishal Jethwa, Vikram Singh Chauhan, Shruti Bapna, Tejasvi Singh Ahlawat
Sunny(Vishal Jethwa), a 21-year-old psychopath, kidnaps an outspoken young woman, Latika. He brutally tortures and rapes her, then kills her. S.P. Shivani Shivaji Roy(Rani Mukherjee) examines the case to catch the killer and bring him to justice.
AvailableOn: Prime Video
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IMDB: 7.0
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Samantha Akkineni, Aadhi Pinisetty, Rahul Ravindran, Bhumika Chawla, Narain
Rachana (Samantha) is an intern journalist. She intends to write a story on people who take illegal U-Turn in the Hyderabad flyover. She is found mysteriously dead. Can Archana, and police inspector Nayak (Aadhi) find the mystery behind all these deaths?
AvailableOn: Prime Video
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IMDB: 7.1
Genre: Psychological Thriller
Starring: Taapsee Pannu, Vinodhini Vaidhyanathan, Anish Kuruvilla, Sanchana Natarajan, Ramya Subramaniyan, Parvathi
Swapna (Taapsee Pannu), a video game designer has post-traumatic stress disorder and a chronic fear of the dark. She has to fight her inner demons to stay alive in the game called life.
AvailableOn: Netflix
Watch Now on NetflixTumhari Sulu (2017)
IMDB: 7.0
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Vidya Balan, Neha Dhupia, Manav Kaul, Abhishek Sharma
Sulochana (Vidya Balan) is a homemaker who's content in the small world of hers. But she has a dream to carve an identity for herself. Sulu gets a chance to become an RJ at a radio station for a late night adult-themed show and how her first success in life affects her and those around her forms the rest of the story
AvailableOn: Prime Video
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IMDB: 6.1
Genre: Fantasy, Drama
Starring: Anushka Sharma, Diljit Dosanjh, Suraj Sharma, Mehreen Pirzada
Kanan, a young man born under an unlucky star, to marry his girlfriend Anu (Mehreen Pirzada), he has to marry a tree before marrying his fiancee. He reluctantly marries the tree. As a result, from that day onward he is haunted by the spirit of a woman named Shashi (Anushka Sharma) starts following him, calling him her husband.
AvailableOn: Disney+Hotstar
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IMDB: 5.6
Genre: History, Action, Drama
Starring: Vidya Balan, Chunky Pandey, Gauahar Khan, Ila Arun, Naseeruddin Shah, Rajit Kapoor, Ashish Vidyarthi, Vivek Mushran, Mishti
On the eve of Independence, the chairman of the Border Commission Sir Cyril Radcliffe decides to divide India and Pakistan into equitable halves. What the administration doesn't account for is the line running through the middle of Begum Jaan's (Vidya Balan) brothel situated plonk on the border; with one half falling in India and the other in Pakistan. 11 prostitutes, who come together to save their house. Will they be successful in saving their home?
AvailableOn: Prime Video
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IMDB: 4.2
Genre: Biography, Crime
Starring: Shraddha Kapoor, Siddhanth Kapoor, Ankur Bhatia, Rajesh Tailang, Feroz Ali Khan, Samar Jai Singh
The film is based on Terrorist Dawood Ibrahim's sister Haseena Parkar. Haseena is very close to her brother Dawood who turns to a life of crime and rises to power in the Mumbai underworld. After the bomb blasts of 1993, Dawood escapes to Dubai and his sister Haseena faces the brunt of society. Tired of being a victim, Haseena decides to fight back and since then is known as the 'Aappa' of underworld. During a court case, Haseena explains the circumstances that compelled her to take the drastic steps.
AvailableOn: Zee5
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IMDB: 7.3
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Starring: Sridevi, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Akshaye Khanna, Sajal Ali, Adnan Siddiqui
Devki Sabarwal (Sridevi), a biology teacher is popular among her students. Arya (Sajal Ali), her stepdaughter studies in the same school but they share a frosty relationship. Arya is gang raped by her classmate Mohit and his associates. Devki seeks help from Daya Shankar Kapoor (Nawazuddin Siddiqui), a private detective, and vows to get revenge after her stepdaughter's rapists are acquitted by the court.
AvailableOn: Netflix, Zee5
Lipstick Under My Burkha (2017)
IMDB: 6.8
Genre: Comedy
Starring: Ratna Pathak Shah, Konkona Sensharma, Aahana Kumra, Plabita Borthakur, Vikrant Massey, Sushant Singh, Shashank Arora, Vaibhav Tatwawaadi, Jagat Singh Solanki
Set in the crowded by-lanes of small town India, Lipstick Under My Burkha chronicles the secret lives of four women in search of a little freedom. Though stifled and trapped in their worlds, these four women claim their desires through small acts of courage and stealthy rebellion.
AvailableOn: Prime Video
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IMDB: 8.4
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Swara Bhaskar, Ria Shukla, Ratna Pathak, Pankaj Tripathi, Sanjay Suri
Apeksha(Ria Shukla), a student studying in class 10, believed that there is no use of education as her mother is a maid and she also has to be one. How would Chanda (Swara Bhaskar) motivate her daughter to excel in studies and succeed in life?
AvailableOn: Zee5
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IMDB: 8.1
Genre: Social Thriller
Starring: Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Andrea Tariang, Angad Bedi, Tushar Pandey, Piyush Mishra, Dhritiman Chatterjee
Minal (Taapsee) and her friends has been molested by a gang of hard-core criminals, which leads to an accident and landed them in court. Things becomes more complicated to them when Deepak(Amitabh Bachchan) joins to help them to fight the case.
AvailableOn: Hotstar, Netflix
Neerja (2016)
IMDB: 7.7
Genre: Biographical Thriller
Starring: Sonam Kapoor, Shabana Azmi, Yogendra Tiku, Shekhar Ravjiani, Kavi Shastri, Sadh Orhan
Neerja Bhanot(Sonam Kapoor) who sacrificed her life while protecting the lives of 359 passengers on the Pan Am flight 73 in 1986. The flight was hijacked by a terrorist organization.
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IMDB: 7.6
Genre: Sports, Drama
Starring: R.Madhavan, Ritika Singh, Mumtaz Sorcar, Nassar, Radha Ravi, Zakir Hussain.
Adi Tomar (Madhavan), a failed boxer becomes a bitter alcoholic, but when he is forced to become the coach of the women's boxing team, he finds hope for redemption in the form of a fiery 17-year-old. Can he instill in her the skills she needs to become a champion?
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Kahaani 2 (2016)
IMDB: 6.6
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Vidya Balan, Arjun Rampal, Tunisha Sharma, Jugal Hansraj, Kharaj Mukherjee
Vidya Sinha(Vidya Balan) and her daughter Mini live peacefully in the sleepy town of Chandan Nagore. Mini is kidnapped and while trying to locate her daughter, Vidya is in an accident and goes into a coma. As Inspector Inderjeet investigates the car accident, he discovers that Vidya Sinha may not be all she appears. She has a dark past linking her to Durga Rani Singh - a wanted criminal on the run for kidnapping and murder.
AvailableOn: Zee5
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IMDB: 5.8
Genre: Action, Historical Drama
Starring: Anushka Shetty, Allu Arjun, Rana Daggubati, Krishnam Raju, Prakash Raj, Suman, Nithya Menen, Catherine Tresa, Baba Sehgal
This is the biopic of erstwhile Kakatiya dynasty's ruler Rani Rudhramadevi. Fearing that his people will not accept a female successor, King Ganapathi Devudu raises his daughter, Rudrama Devi, like a boy. But when the time comes, she saves the kingdom from enemies.
AvailableOn: Zee5
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IMDB: 7.2
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Anushka Sharma, Neil Bhoopalam, Darshan Kumaar, Ravi Jhankal, Deepti Naval
Meera (Anushka Sharma) and Arjun (Neil Bhoopalam) are professionals living in Gurgaon. On their way to a luxurious desert holiday they stop on a Highway dhaba for dinner, where they witness a young girl being picked up by a bunch of hoodlums. Arjun chooses to step in, unmindful of the danger ahead.
AvailableOn: Zee5
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IMDB: 7.3
Genre: Action, Thriller
Starring: Rani Mukerji, Tahir Raj Bhasin, Priyanka Sharma, Mona Ambegaonkar, Jisshu Sengupta, Saanand Verma
Shivani Shivaji Roy, Senior Inspector, Crime Branch, Mumbai Police, as she sets out to confront the mastermind behind the child trafficking mafia, which makes the mistake of kidnapping and smuggling a teenage girl. Does she succeed in bringing the culprits?
AvailableOn: Prime Video
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IMDB: 5.5
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Starring: Vidya Balan, Ali Fazal, Supriya Pathak, Tanvi Azmi, Arjan Bajwa, Rajendra Gupta
Bobby (Vidya Balan), who wants to become the number one detective in the old city area of Hyderabad. One day, a rich businessman assigns him the task of finding missing children in return for a huge amount of money. Although she accomplishes the assigned tasks, she struggles to understand the motive behind them.
AvailableOn: Disney+Hotstar
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IMDB: 6.8
Genre: Biographical Sports
Starring: Priyanka Chopra, Darshan Kumaar, Sunil Thapa
A chronicle of the life of Indian boxer Mary Kom, the daughter of a poor rice farmer overcomes the objections of her father and went through several hardships before audaciously accomplishing her ultimate dream.
AvailableOn: Netflix, Jio Cinema
Queen (2014)
IMDB: 8.2
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Kangana Ranaut, Rajkummar Rao, Lisa Haydon
Rani (Kangana Ranaut) is a Delhi girl from a conservative family. Her wedding gets called off because her fiance gets killed in a car accident (Rajkummar Rao). Shocked by this, she decides to set out on the planned honeymoon alone. As she travels the world and meets new people, she gains new experiences and discovers her own identity.
AvailableOn: Netflix, Jio Cinema, Voot
Kahaani (2012)
IMDB: 8.1
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Starring: Vidya Balan, Parambrata Chatterjee, Nawazuddin Siddiqui, Indraneil Sengupta, Saswata Chatterjee
Vidya Bagchi(Vidya Balan) a pregnant woman's search for her missing husband takes her from London to Kolkata. When all clues lead to a dead end, she realises that there is more than what meets the eye
AvailableOn: Netflix
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IMDB: 7.8
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Starring: Sridevi, Adil Hussain, Mehdi Nebbou, Priya Anand
Shashi(Sridevi), a woman who doesn't know English and is made to feel insecure about this by her family and society at large. The film though light-hearted is about the touching and transformational journey of Shashi.
AvailableOn: Zee5
Watch Now on Zee5No One Killed Jessica (2011)
IMDB: 7.2
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Starring: Rani Mukherjee, Vidya Balan, Myra Karn
Sabrina Lal(Vidya Balan) joins forces with Meera(Rani Mukherjee), an investigative journalist, to seek justice for her sister Jessica(Myra Karn), who was murdered by the son of an influential politician.
AvailableOn: Netflix
Watch Now on NetflixThe Dirty Picture (2011)
IMDB: 6.6
Genre: Biography, Drama
Starring: Vidya Balan, Naseeruddin Shah, Emraan Hashmi, Tusshar Kapoor
The movie is inspired by the live of the late south Indian actress Silk Smitha of the early eighties. It's about her love story with a director.
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7 Khoon Maaf (2011)
IMDB: 6.1
Genre: Mystery, Drama
Starring: Priyanka Chopra, Neil Nitin Mukesh, John Abraham, Naseeruddin Shah, Vivaan Shah, Irrfan Khan, Aleksandr Dyachenko, Annu Kapoor
7 Khoon Maaf is an adaptation of the short story Susanna's Seven Husbands by Ruskin Bond. Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes, a beautiful lass who over the course of 35 odd years, gets married seven times due to the untimely and mysterious deaths of half a dozen of her hapless husbands. The strange circumstances of their deaths, makes Susanna a prime accused. Did the husbands deserve to die? Were the murders out of necessity or pure bloodlust?
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IMDB: 5.0
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Drama
Starring: Sonam Kapoor, Abhay Deol, Ira Dubey, Cyrus Sahukar, Amrita Puri, Anand Tiwari, Arunoday Singh, Lisa Haydon
Aisha movie is an adaption of the British novel, Emma by Jane Austen. Aisha Kapoor (Sonam Kapoor) is the quintessential uptown girl from super rich South Delhi. Aisha thinks she is a perfect match-maker but her friend Arjun not like that. Her new target is Shefali, a simple small-town girl, who she tries to hook up with a rich guy. However things get complicated between the youngsters.
AvailableOn: Disney+Hotstar, Prime Video, Zee5
