From then till now, Indian Cinema has improved a lot in the type of movies they are giving us. The quality of content we get today has improved tremendously over time. Biopics have become quite the trend in Bollywood in recent times. From the last few years, we have seen a lot of Biopic movies in Bollywood. Biopics are recreated versions of a person's life and, such movies did well commercially. But the ones that are made on the lives of sports personalities be it any sport have caught more attention and proved very inspiring too
We have so many brilliant sports personalities in India who have set examples and left their mark in their respective sport. Their life story is so inspiring that Bollywood came up with movies to show the world, what these people went through to become the legends they are now.
There are many Biopic movies in Bollywood, but today I list down the top 5 inspiring sports Biopic movies in Bollywood that you must watch if you have not till now.
List of Top 5 Inspiring Sports Biopic Movies In Bollywood:1. M.S. Dhoni: The Untold Story:
This biopic is the life story of superstar cricketer M.S. Dhoni, starring Sushant Singh Rajput in the main lead. Sushant looks exactly like Dhoni. Whether it is the body language or the way of playing cricket, the personality, Sushant has lived up to the character so well that we felt as if it is Dhoni on screen. Sushant gave his best to imitate Dhoni by adapting all his styles of the cricketing shot.
The movie shows beautifully how this Ranchi lad M.S. Dhoni aspires to become a cricketer and play for India. However, for the sake of his father, he takes up a job in the Indian Railways but finally decides to chase his dreams.
This is one of the best sports biopic movies in Bollywood. The efforts of Sushant were so brilliant that after the release of this movie, everybody started seeing Dhoni in Sushant as well.
Along with Sushant, we see Disha Patani, Kiara Advani, and Anupam Kher in the leading roles. All these reasons are enough to make this movie one of the inspiring sports biopic movies in Bollywood.
2. Dangal:
Dangal is another inspiring sports biopic movies in Bollywood.
Dangal is the story of the Phogat family, where Mahavir Singh Phogat(Aamir Khan) trains his two daughters Geeta Phogat(Fatima Sana Shaikh) and Babita Phogat(Sanya Malhotra) to become the first female world-class wrestlers.
Aamir Khan, as usual, gave a brilliant performance and what impressed us more was his well-chiseled body while playing 20 years old and then a determined 60-year-old father who wanted his girls to bring Gold for India in the wrestling championship.
Child artiste Zaira Wasim won the National award for supporting actress for her beautiful playing young Geeta Phogat.
The movie was loved by one and all and I doubt if there is anyone who has not seen Dangal yet. If that is the case then it is time to watch now. Dangal is majorly one of the best biopic movies in Bollywood.
3. Mary Kom:
Priyanka Chopra plays the lead role of real-life boxer Mary Kom directed by Omung Kumar. When it comes to the most inspiring sports biopic movies in Bollywood, we cannot afford to miss Mary Kom.
Mary Kom won multiple gold medals at the World Boxing Championships.
Priyanka Chopra impressed all by putting in so much physical effort to learn boxing and put on muscle. And she did even better at bringing grace ad restraint to her performance.
Priyanka played the role of a boxer as well as a mother. She played the character very authentically and was in top form during the film.
Director Omung Kumar said that Priyanka was his first and only choice for the film and when questioned by people why he did not cast a Northeastern Girl since Mary Kom was Northeastern, he said because "He wanted an Indian girl who will be a role model to many."
He was confident that Priyanka's power-packed performance won't let us notice that she is not a Manipuri. Darshan Kumar and Sunil Thapa are the actors along with Priyanka Chopra.
So this movie is a very inspiring sports biopic movies in Bollywood as it shows the struggle of an Indian girl to become the legend she is today!
4. Bhaag Milkha Bhaag:
Farhan Akhtar underwent drastic physical transformations for the role of Milkha Singh in Bhag Milkha Bhag.
Farhan looked very athletic playing the lead role, as Milkha Singh was a sprinter who won the Gold medal in 1958 for India at the British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Cardiff, Wales.
Some of the sprinting sequences were top-notch. The continuous hard work of the director Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra and Farhan Akhtar made this movie one of the best sports biopic movies in Bollywood.
Milkha Singh said in an interview, that his motive to produce the movie was to inspire the nation to claim another gold medal in a track event.
Milkha Singh believes that if Milkha, who had no access to the basic necessities of life could bring a Gold medal then why not the youth of today who have got the best of facilities to get another Gold in the track events. It's been 52 years that India has not got any Gold in track events after Milkha Singh.
This movie is a highly inspiring sports biopic movies in Bollywood for the youth of the country.
5. Azhar:
Azhar is another on the list of sports biopic movies in Bollywood. One of the main reasons for watching Azhar is the brilliant acting of Emraan Hashmi.
Emraan perfectly got the lingo and characteristics of Mohammad Azharuddin.
The movie is a biopic of Indian cricketer Mohammad Azharuddin, one of the finest batsmen of India fondly called Azhar.
Though having a very good career, Azhar's later part of the career both on and off pitch got entangled in some major controversies. All this is shown in the movie.
Emraan Hashmi's efforts made this movie a must-watch, and it is also one of the few films that were shot at Lord's Cricket Stadium, known as the home of cricket.
Director Anthony D'souza said some sequences were shot at the Oval stadium as well as both the places hold high importance in Azhar's career. Director purposely did this to maintain the authenticity of the film.
Emraan said he chose to do this character because the situations that Azhar faced in his life were faced by Emraan too. Therefore this movie becomes another on the watchlist of sports biopic movies in Bollywood.
We are thankful to Bollywood for coming up with these sports biopic movies. All these sports-related biopic movies in Bollywood have been a great inspiration for us.
Not only these but there have been biopic movies in Bollywood of non-sports personalities that are equally inspiring and there are still some unsung heroes we don't know about.
Still, there are a lot of sports biopics lined up in Bollywood for release. Let's look forward to the release of these biopic movies in Bollywood for some more exciting action and drama and of course inspiring stories of our legends.
