9 adrenaline-pumping Bollywood football movies

In India, many people treat cricket as a religion rather than a sport. However, many movie lovers would like to spend their time watching soccer matches. This is why some filmmakers have come up with great Indian sports movies based on football to entertain the audience. Check out these 9 adrenaline-pumping Bollywood football movies.

9 Bollywood soccer movies for all soccer lovers:

1. Long live hip hip

• cast: Raj Kiran, Deepti Naval, Shafi Inamdar
• Where to watch: Ultra Movie Parlor on YouTube
• release date: January 1, 1984

Filmmaker Prakash Jha has proved that he is here to stay with his directorial debut ‘Hip Hip Hooray’. The 1984 Indian sports film tells the story of a computer engineer who takes a temporary job as a school sports instructor, but ends up falling in love with the sport. In the end he leads the soccer team to victory.

2. Goal

• cast: Irrfan Khan, Abhinav Ben, Punya Darshan Gupta, Girish Mathur, Manoj Mitra
• Where to watch: Amazon Prime Video
• release date: December 30, 1999

In the 1999 Indian sports film The Goal, Irrfan Khan plays the role of a soccer coach who is determined to find great players for his team. He meets a boy who plays with magic. However, the fraternity and other players on the team do not want him to play with him because he is the son of a thief. Khan believes in the kid’s talent and wants him to play, so he puts him in the opposing team to play against his club.

3. Dang Dana Dang Goal

• cast: John Abraham, Bipasha Basu, Arshad Warsi, Shernaz Patel, Judan Ali, Boman Irani, Dibyendu Bhattacharya
• Where to watch: Netflix
• release date: November 23, 2007

Vivek Agnihotri’s Dhan Dana Dang Goal tells the story of Britain’s South Asian community who sacrifice their tears, sweat and blood to save Southall Football Club in Asia. Once a highly regarded club, it is now difficult to see professional footballers stepping onto the club’s premises. A group of Asians comes together to save the facility, which is on the brink of permanent closure. The film premiered in his Tous Les Cinemas du Monde (World Cinema) section at the 2007 Cannes Film Festival.

Four. Sikandar

• cast: Parzan Dastur, Ayesha Kapoor, R. Madhavan, Sanjay Suri
• Where to watch: YouTube movies
• release date: August 21, 2009

All 14-year-old Sikandar Raza wanted was to use his talent to play soccer. However, due to circumstances in Kashmir, where he lived with his uncle and aunt, he is brainwashed into picking up a gun in the Indian sports film Sikandar.

5. Tuhai Mela Sunday

• cast: Barun Sobti, Shahana Goswami, Vishal Malhotra, Avinash Tiwary, Rasika Dugal, Maanvi Gagroo, Nakul Bala, Jay Upadhyay, Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
• Where to watch: Disney+ Hotstar
• release date: October 6, 2016

Groups of friends find soccer relaxing and comforting when they want to escape the hustle and bustle of city life and have some time for themselves. On Tuhai Mela Sunday, they started looking for a place to play sports in Mumbai after Sunday’s soccer match on the beach was cancelled.

6. Penalties

• cast: Rukram Sumir, Kay Kay Menon, Manjot Singh, Shashank Arora, Biju Thanjam
• Where to watch: Netflix
• release date: July 19, 2019

For aspiring soccer players from Manipur, the penalty shootout is the last chance to prove their mettle and respond appropriately to those who discriminate based on their appearance or language. After displaying his world-class soccer performance, he finally succeeds in impressing team manager Vikram Singh (played by Kay Kay Menon) and letting him return to the college team.

7. Jundo

• cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Ankush Gedam, Akash Tosar, Rinku Rajguru
• Where to watch: G5
• release date: March 4, 2022

Next on this list of best soccer movies is Jundo. The film is based on the life of sports teacher Vijay Barsu, who is nearing his retirement. He founded an NGO called Slum Soccer, which employed slum children as part of a football team to keep them away from drugs and child labor. The movie shows how he changes the lives of his children.

8. Chidiakhana

• cast: Ritvik Sahore, Avneet Kaur, Prashant Narayanan, Ravi Kishan
• Where to watch: Chidiakhana is currently not available to stream
• release date: June 2, 2023

Directed by Manish Tiwary, Chidiyakhana is the story of a boy from Bihar who comes of age, finally breaks into the bubble and befriends the residents of a Marathi chawl through his grit, imagination and brilliant football skills.

9. Maidan

• cast: Ajay Devgn, Priyamani, Gajraj Rao
• Where to watch: The film is scheduled to be released in theaters on April 11, 2024

Directed by Amit Rabindanath Sharma and produced by Boney Kapoor, Maidan is a film about Syed Abdul Rahim, an ace football coach who revolutionized Indian sports.

Some of these Indian soccer movies are popular and award-winning, but you might not have heard of these masterpieces. Please tell us which Indian soccer-related sports movies you would like to see.