Cinema is a very powerful medium, which can move the audience positively or negatively towards any feeling or emotion. Whatever we see, gets stuck into your memory and cannot be erased easily. Patriotic movies in Bollywood itself is a very powerful emotion. Even when it comes to motivating us about our nation, when the hero raises the Indian flag, it instills in us a sense of pride.
Patriotic movies to watch this independence day are:
Haqeeqat
One of India’s first well made war films. The film is based on the 1962 Indo-Sino conflict. A unit fighting in the Sino-Indian conflict of 1962 is thought dead in the mountainous terrains of Ladakh before being rescued by tribals. Captain Bahadur Singh and Angmo are in charge of holding the fort as the platoon retreats.
Released in 1964
Directed by Chetan Anand
Border
The film is an adaption of real-life events that occurred during the Battle of Longewala in 1971 during the Indo-Pakistani War. outline of the story is a band of 120 Indian soldiers in the Longewala region defend their post all night until they receive assistance from the Indian Air Force the next morning.
Released on 13th June 1997
Directed by J. P. Dutta
Lagaan
The movie is set in 1893. There was a time when Indians didn’t even play cricket. During the British Raj, a farmer called Bhuvan accepts Captain Andrew Russell’s challenge to beat his side in a game of cricket and allow his community to avoid paying taxes for the next three years.
Released on 15 June 2001
Directed by Ashutosh Gowariker
Rang de Basanti
This movie is a narrative of six young Indians who help an English woman make a documentary on their ancestors’ independence warriors and the circumstances that lead them to relive the long-forgotten freedom epic.
Released on 26 January 2006
Directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
Raazi
During the 1971 Indo-Pakistan War, a Kashmiri lady named Sehmat (an undercover RAW agent) decides to marry a Pakistani army officer to spy on Pakistan. She goes to great lengths, even despite the point of breaking the law, to fulfill her duty to her nation. The film Raazi, based on Harinder Sikka’s novel ‘Calling Sehmat’, published in 2008.
Released on 11 May 2018
Directed by Meghna Gulzar
Uri: The Surgical Strike
As a matter of fact, the film is based on the Indian Army’s surgical strikes against terrorist launch sites in Pakistan-controlled Kashmir in 2016 (PoK). In revenge for the terrorist assault in Uri that killed 19 Indian troops, the covert operation said to have killed 35-50 militants.
Released on 11 January 2019
Directed by Aditya Dhar
Wrapping up
Everyone has different choices. As a matter of fact, here we have presented some of the evergreen movies. Some of the patriotic movies in Bollywood like Shershaah, Bhuj: The Pride Of India, Bell Bottom, etc. are going to be released in August 2021. Watch these movies to pumped up with patriotism