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20 Best Bollywood Movies on Netflix Right Now
3 Idiots, Dangal, Andhadhun, Queen — the best Bollywood movies currently streaming on Netflix, curated and ranked.
20 FILMS·April 2026·By MoviesPack
Netflix India has one of the better Bollywood catalogs of any streaming platform. The library shifts, but there's usually a strong core of the last decade's best Hindi films available at any time. If you're new to Bollywood or looking for something specific, start here.
These 20 films represent the best of what's been available on Netflix — some are permanent fixtures, some rotate in and out. Check where to watch for current availability.
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20 Best Bollywood Movies on Netflix
01
**3 Idiots** (2009) ★ 8.4
Three friends at India's most prestigious engineering college survive a system designed to break them — and one of them, Rancho, does it by actually enjoying learning, which makes him a radical. The film follows their friendship across years of pressure-cooker academic life and a mystery about where Rancho disappeared after graduation. Aamir Khan, R. Madhavan, and Sharman Joshi at peak chemistry. Funny, warm, and surprisingly sharp about what India's education system costs the people inside it. 👉 Where to watch 3 Idiots
02
**Dangal** (2016) ★ 8.4
Mahavir Singh Phogat couldn't win the national gold himself, so he decides his daughters will — daughters who did not ask for this and who spend years resenting him for it. The film tracks the transformation from coercion to genuine desire: the moment the girls realize they're actually good and want to win for themselves. Both a sports film and a quietly feminist one. The wrestling sequences are technically excellent, and the final match is genuinely nerve-wracking.
03
**Andhadhun** (2018) ★ 8.3
A pianist who pretends to be blind to help his music gets hired to play at a retired actor's apartment — and while playing, witnesses something he can't react to without exposing his deception. From that moment, the film never stops turning. Every scene plants something the next scene detonates. Ayushmann Khurrana's greatest performance. Tabu is terrifying. The ending is genuinely unpredictable and refuses to resolve neatly, which is the right call. 👉 More like this: movies similar to Andhadhun
04
**Queen** (2014) ★ 8.2
Rani's fiancé calls off their wedding the day before it happens. On impulse, she goes to Paris and Amsterdam alone — she who has never traveled, barely speaks English, and has spent her life waiting for someone else's permission. Two weeks later she is a completely different person. Warm, funny, and quietly revolutionary about what women discover when they stop waiting for the life they were promised.
05
**Drishyam** (2015) ★ 8.3
A cable TV operator's daughter accidentally kills a police officer's son, and the officer — herself a senior cop — will tear the district apart to find out what happened. The cable operator has no education, no connections, and no weapons. What he has is an encyclopedic knowledge of crime films, and he begins constructing an alibi using everything he's ever watched. An extraordinary cat-and-mouse thriller about a man whose only tool is his understanding of how stories work.
06
**Gully Boy** (2019) ★ 7.9
Murad lives in Dharavi, drives for a rich man, watches his father take a second wife, and writes raps at night that say exactly what it feels like to have no space in a city that is everywhere and nowhere for him. He starts performing. The music scenes are actually good, the class dynamics are textured, and Ranveer Singh disappears completely into the role. "Apna Time Aayega" became an anthem because it already felt true before the song existed.
07
**Ludo** (2020) ★ 7.4
Four separate stories — an ex-couple whose old sex tape resurfaces, two childhood friends on a kidnapping gone wrong, a man just out of prison reconnecting with a daughter who doesn't know him, and a couple on the run — all collide over a bag of money that keeps changing hands. Pankaj Tripathi as the enigmatic criminal linking all four threads is worth the entire film. Playful, violent, and surprisingly moving in its final act.
08
**Kapoor & Sons** (2016) ★ 8.0
Two estranged brothers come home because their grandfather is dying, and the family they find is messier than either of them remembered — their parents are on the brink of separation, old jealousies immediately resurface, and the older brother is carrying a secret that explains years of distance. Fawad Khan, Sidharth Malhotra, Alia Bhatt, and Rishi Kapoor as a completely chaotic 90-year-old who somehow brings everyone together. The best Bollywood family drama in recent years, and genuinely sensitive about something mainstream Hindi cinema rarely handles well.
09
**Tumhari Sulu** (2017) ★ 7.6
Sulu is a cheerful, restless housewife in Mumbai who has never had a career — until she wins a radio contest and is offered a job hosting a late-night call-in show. Her voice, warm and completely unguarded, becomes a hit with lonely listeners, and she discovers for the first time that she might be genuinely good at something. Vidya Balan makes Sulu immediately lovable. A small film that does everything it sets out to do perfectly.
10
**Masaan** (2015) ★ 8.2
Two stories in Varanasi: a young woman whose life is destroyed by a police raid on a hotel room, and a lower-caste man who falls in love with a girl across the caste line — and what happens when that relationship is discovered. Both stories are about how shame works in a city built around the idea of washing sin away in the river. Achingly good, realistic, and shot by Avinash Arun with the burning ghats and the Ganges as a constant, indifferent presence.
11
**Lust Stories** (2018) ★ 7.2
Four short films about female desire from four of India's best directors — a college professor sleeping with her student and realizing she has no idea what she wants, a housemaid navigating desire in a house where she is invisible, a newly married woman whose husband doesn't notice what she needs, and a woman confronting her ex at his wedding. Anurag Kashyap, Zoya Akhtar, Dibakar Banerjee, and Karan Johar. Kiara Advani's segment became a genuine cultural moment. At least two of the four will hit you hard.
12
**Photograph** (2019) ★ 7.3
A street photographer in Mumbai tells his grandmother he has a fiancée to stop her worrying — and finds a girl who walked into his frame and asks her to pretend, just once. She agrees. They meet again. Two shy people from completely different worlds spending cautious time together, neither of them saying the obvious thing. Ritesh Batra's love story moves at the pace of real hesitation. Beautiful if you're in the mood for something genuinely gentle.
13
**Guilty** (2020) ★ 6.9
A popular college band frontman is accused of sexual assault. His girlfriend refuses to believe it — and the film follows both women, the accuser and the defender, as they navigate a world where social capital determines who gets believed. Kiara Advani and Akansha Ranjan Kapoor. Flawed in execution, but it tackles a conversation Bollywood rarely allows itself to have, and it earns some genuine discomfort along the way.
14
**Raat Akeli Hai** (2020) ★ 7.8
A rural UP cop is assigned to investigate the murder of a wealthy landlord found dead on his wedding night — in a house full of relatives who all had reasons to want him gone, and nobody willing to talk. A slow-burn noir with a feudal family manor, buried secrets, and a detective who sees too clearly for his own comfort. Nawazuddin Siddiqui doing what he does with absolute authority. One of Netflix India's best originals.
15
**Serious Men** (2020) ★ 7.6
Ayyan Mani is a Dalit man working as an assistant at a Mumbai science institute — smart enough to be there, blocked from rising, watching mediocre upper-caste men get the credit. When he finds out his son has been accidentally praised for something the boy didn't do, he decides to promote the lie into a national story. A sharp satire of aspiration, caste, and the corruption of ambition. Nawazuddin Siddiqui makes this specific angry, specific funny man completely real.
16
**Bulbbul** (2020) ★ 7.0
A child bride in colonial Bengal grows up inside a household of casual cruelty — and years later, when men in the village start dying, everyone suspects the chudail, the witch who lives in the trees. The film is drenched in reds and folklore, and uses the supernatural as a vessel for something very real about what women survive and what they become after. Divisive but distinctively made, and Anushka Sharma produces it with genuine commitment to the vision.
17
**Jab Tak Hai Jaan** (2012) ★ 7.0
A woman makes a pact with God — if the man she loves survives, she will never see him again. He survives. She keeps the pact. Years later, a young documentary filmmaker finds him working bomb disposal in Kashmir and starts unraveling a story he has locked away entirely. Shah Rukh Khan, Katrina Kaif, Anushka Sharma, and A.R. Rahman's score carrying everything the film needs it to. A valediction from Yash Chopra, the master of romantic Hindi cinema, who died before it released.
18
**Dil Dhadakne Do** (2015) ★ 7.3
A wealthy Delhi family takes a cruise through Europe to celebrate an anniversary — and spends ten days airing everything they've been pretending wasn't there. The mother trapped in a performance of the perfect wife. The daughter suffocating in a bad marriage because divorce would embarrass the family. The son trying to follow his own path against his father's business demands. Priyanka Chopra, Ranveer Singh, Anil Kapoor, Farhan Akhtar. Sharper about class and family dysfunction than most Bollywood films dare to be.
19
**Kho Gaye Hum Kahan** (2023) ★ 7.3
Three Mumbai friends in their mid-twenties navigate relationships, ambition, and the specific loneliness of a generation that is always performing connection — one obsessed with building a following, one scrolling through an ex's life every night, one pretending confidence she doesn't feel. Siddhant Chaturvedi, Ananya Panday, and Adarsh Gourav in a film that is genuinely honest about how phones and apps reshape what it feels like to be close to someone.
20
**The Sky Is Pink** (2019) ★ 7.7
Aisha is 18 years old and has a terminal lung condition, and she narrates the story of her parents' marriage and her family's last few years together from after her death. The structural choice — telling you what happens at the start — means the film isn't about the outcome, it's about the quality of the time. Priyanka Chopra and Farhan Akhtar as parents who hold each other up and crack under the weight in equal measure. Genuinely moving without being manipulative, which is the hardest balance in this kind of film to strike.
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Also Worth Mentioning: Sacred Games (TV)
Netflix's first Indian original series is excellent — a Mumbai crime thriller based on Vikram Chandra's novel. Nawazuddin Siddiqui as crime lord Ganesh Gaitonde is one of Indian television's great performances. If you're on a Netflix India marathon, watch this between films.
Section 3
Bollywood on Netflix: Quick Guide
| If you want... | Watch | |----------------|-------| | Comedy + heart | 3 Idiots, Ludo | | Thriller | Andhadhun, Drishyam, Raat Akeli Hai | | Female-led | Queen, Tumhari Sulu, Masaan | | Sports | Dangal | | Family drama | Kapoor & Sons, Dil Dhadakne Do |
Section 4
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