Indian Chess movies

List of the best Indian chess movies selected by our site visitors: Wazir, Grandmaster, Jil Jung Juk, Yuvarathnaa, Aadhi, Velayudham, Lucknow Central, Chef, A Gentleman, 1920 London.

In the top there are new films of 2021, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Country
Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:08

'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But there's a mysterious, dangerous opponent lurking in the shadows, who is all set to checkmate them.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, thriller
CountryIndia

Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who anticipates his opponents moves well in advance, he proceeds forward. But only once, just once, he makes a fatal mistake.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration02:18

Three bumbling underlings who are tasked with smuggling cocaine get into problems during their journey.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, drama
CountryIndia

A government aided college, RK University, is on the verge of completing its golden jubilee but a bizarre event shuts it down indefinitely. Will RK University restore its lost glory?

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller
CountryIndia

Aadhi, an aspiring musician, travels to another state in hopes of making it big. While there, an unexpected event leaves him trapped, unable to return to his family and running for his life.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction
CountryIndia

An ordinary milkman is forced to become the fictional character Velayudham who takes on the scum of the earth.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, drama, music
CountryIndia

After being accused of murder and awaiting his death penalty, Kishen Mohan Girhotra is compelled by NGO worker Gayatri Kashyap to form a musical band of prisoners to compete at band competition held at the dreaded jail of ‘Lucknow Central’. Kishen befriends and convinces a talented bunch of criminals to form a band that provides them with a purpose and a new lease of life.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrecomedy, drama, family
CountryIndia
Duration02:57

Roshan Kalra is a three-star Michelin chef who gets fired from New York's Gulli restaurant after he punches a customer. Forced to take a break, he flies to Kochi to spend time with his son, Armaan and his estranged wife Radha Menon. It's a fruitful trip because he manages to mend broken family ties. In a bid to help him get his mojo back, his wife suggests he put up his own food truck and begin afresh.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genreaction, comedy, melodrama
CountryIndia

Gaurav dreams of settling down with Kavya, the woman of his dreams, but she prefers a man who's more adventurous and willing to take risks. He soon stands to lose everything when a case of mistaken identity rocks his once-happy life.

Markimdb: 4.1
Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, detective
CountryIndia

Shivangi (Meera Chopra) lives in London with her husband Veer Singh. One day, he receives a gift from Rajasthan. From then, strange things happen with Veer and his condition deteriorates.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:08

A team of the best cops in Mumbai is dispatched to find a girl who has gone missing from her father's car. As the hunt for the kidnapper begins, fingers suspiciously point to closer home.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, detective
CountryIndia

Krishnan, who has been living away from his family and friends in Mumbai, gets a call from his friend Ganga in Kerala, out of the blue. He senses danger, and leaves for Kammattipadam, where both of them grew up.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:56

An ex-army man, leading a double life in London, must choose between his wife and muse. Jab Tak Hai Jaan movie is a love triangle,and also marks the return of Yash Chopra as a director after eight years. In Jab Tak Hai Jaan, Shahrukh Khan plays the character of Samar who is an angry, unforgiving, with loads of emotional baggage. His role will span two ages, one in his late twenties as a musician based in London and the other at an older age as an introverted, composed, dutiful army officer in Kashmir. Katrina as Meera play as a seductress, an unattainable beauty. And Anushka as Akira who is 21 year old and works for Discovery Channel and makes documentaries.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia

Mahesh, a studio photographer and owner of the studio. As the story moves on, Mahesh encounters an anonymous fight ending up with taking revenge that leads to certain realizations in his life.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:23

A grandfather, police officer and a priest join hands to investigate and find a missing child.

Markimdb: 1.8
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryIndia

As Mumbai’s youth are falling prey to rampant drug abuse, suspended cop Radhe is recalled for a clean-up mission. But Radhe is up against a dangerous new outlaw Rana, who will stop at nothing to rule the city.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genremelodrama, drama
CountryIndia, France, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration01:44

A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system (Mumbai's Dabbawallahs) connects a young housewife to a stranger in the dusk of his life. They build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox. Gradually, this fantasy threatens to overwhelm their reality.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genreaction, drama
CountryIndia

An angry young man fights for the rights of his oppressed people. Can he save them from those who weild power and weapons?

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure
CountryIndia
Duration03:50

Shivaay , a fearless Himalayan mountaineer covered in Lord Shiva tattoos, heads to Bulgaria to fulfill his nine-year-old daughter Gaura’s wish of seeing her mother Olga, who abandoned them years ago. But their plan goes for a toss when the little girl gets kidnapped in the foreign land. Rescuing her from the masked child-traffickers becomes his only reason for survival.

Markimdb: 8
Genredrama, biography
CountryAustralia, United Kingdom, USA, India
Duration01:43

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta, thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later, he sets out to find his lost family.

Markimdb: 8
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryIndia
Duration02:24

In the early 1980s in India, a group of con artists rob well-known businessmen and politicians by posing as officers of the Central Bureau of Intelligence or income tax officials. The gang stages fake raids during which they steal great amounts of money from their targets.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genredrama, biography
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Singapore, Hong Kong, United Arab Emirates, India

Growing up poor in Madras, India, Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar earns admittance to Cambridge University during WWI, where he becomes a pioneer in mathematical theories with the guidance of his professor, G.H. Hardy.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genredrama
CountryCanada, United Kingdom, USA, India
Duration02:26

The story of a pair of children born within moments of India gaining independence from England, growing up in the country that is nothing like their parent's generation. A Canadian-British film adaptation of Salman Rushdie's novel of the same name.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
CountryIndia

Village lad Sarman is drawn to big, bad Mohenjo Daro - and its mascot Chaani. But Chaani must wed Munja, son of Mohenjo Daro's ruler, Maham. Will Sarman find love - and more - in Mohenjo Daro?

Markimdb: 3.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia

A road trip, undertaken by Rishi Kapoor and Abhishek Bachchan, is later joined by their mother.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrefantastic, action, fantasy
CountryIndia

A criminal swaps his body with that of the cop who is hunting him.​

Markimdb: 4.9
Genreaction, drama, crime
CountryIndia

Subhash Nagre or Sarkar, the patriarch of the most powerful family of Maharashtra, continues to hold centre-stage because of his immense clout with the masses. In this outing, the Godfather is joined by his grandson Shivaji Nagre who loves and hates his grandfather with equal intensity. Will Shivaji betray Subhash? Or will he become a prey to his grandfather’s machinations?

Markimdb: 4.4
Genrethriller, drama
CountryIndia
Duration01:53

A young photographer from Mumbai uses her mind to play games with a prominent Hindu rightist leader.

Mark
Genreaction, melodrama, drama
CountryIndia

Sathya, a philanthropist who now runs an orphanage, has to go to Poland for the treatment of young Janu. While there, an international criminal named Ghost carries out heists. Who is Ghost? And what has Sathya got to do with it all?

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrecomedy
CountryIndia
Duration02:17

The film is about three husbands having affairs outside their marriage. One of their wives hires a detective named Kishen and finds out that their husbands are cheating. Their wives find out when Kishen scares them by blind folding them and when they tell their girlfriends list, Sanjana gets hurt and leaves and tries to commit suicide but Kishen helps her.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia
Duration02:15

Yudi’s happy life is about to encounter a speed breaker-his BMW gets towed away and his dues have started piling up. He’s run out of money and luck! To make matters worse-his supposed ex-girlfriend isn’t really his ex.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller
CountryIndia

A Special Protection Group officer has to identify the threat to the prime minister, who he is protecting, and also the nation.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryIndia
Duration03:05

In 1897, an army of 21 Sikhs battles 10,000 Afghans to prevent the Saragarhi Fort from being taken down.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia

Titu is going to marry a perfect woman named Sweety. Titu's best-friend Sonu doubts Sweety's character and tries to break the marriage while Sweety tries to do opposite and which leads to war between Bromance and Romace.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia

A couple fall in love but then the groom discovers that he suffers from erectile dysfunction.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genredrama, sport
CountryIndia
Duration02:20

A second-generation Sikh in London gives up his dream to save his father's reputation until he meets a girl who gives him the strength to stand up for what he believes. This cross-generation drama is about second chances.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genreaction, comedy
CountryIndia

Leveraging his ability to withstand pain, a young man trains to follow in the footsteps of his martial arts hero.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryIndia

Googly is a 2013 Kannada romantic comedy film directed by Pawan Wadeyar and produced by Jayanna Combines. Yash and Kriti Kharbanda are the lead actors while Ananth Nag and Sadhu Kokila play the primary supporting roles. The film released on 19 July 2013 and opened to a fantastic response at the box office. The film was declared a "Blockbuster".

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryIndia

A happy-go-lucky Mumbai suburban housewife Sulochana, fondly known as Sulu, lands the role of a night RJ, resulting in drastic changes to her routine life.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama
CountryIndia

When his daughter decides to further her studies in London, a hardworking Haryanvi businessman does everything in power to make her dreams come true.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genreaction, melodrama
CountryIndia

A battle-hardened army officer goes in search of his ex-lover's child who is mysteriously kidnapped. Neha reaches out to the only person who can help her with her plight, Ronnie. He goes deep into the underbelly of Goa, facing off against drug lords, menacing Russian henchmen, and blood thirsty animals. Daring stunts, chase sequences, air strikes, bomb blasts and other large-scale action sequences will be done with a bona-fide, larger than life approach, truly making it a spectacle.

Markimdb: 3
Genreaction, comedy
CountryIndia

Chulbul this time has to take on a criminal named Balli Singh, who has disrupted other people's lives with his annoying antics.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryIndia

Picking up the storyline from where Singam ended, Duraisingam has gone undercover after meeting the Home Minister and is working as an NCC officer in a school in Thoothukudi. The only people who know about this operation are the Chief Minister and Home Minister apart from himself.

Markimdb: 7
Genreaction, drama
CountryIndia
Duration02:00

The son of a rich businessman struggles to save his father's wealth after his demise. However, he faces many challenges when he becomes the sole breadwinner of his family.

Markimdb: 6.9
Genredrama
CountryIndia

Widowed soon after marriage, a young woman grapples with an inability to grieve, quirky relatives and a startling discovery about her late husband.

Markimdb: 8.2
Genrethriller, drama
CountryIndia

Three police officers are forced to go on the run when they get tangled in the death of a youth, a few days before the election.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genremelodrama, drama, musical, music
CountryIndia
Duration02:25

Ayan falls in love with his soulmate, Alizeh, but she doesn’t reciprocate the feeling. Later, a relationship with Saba helps him realize Alizeh’s value in his life, irrespective of their relationship status.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genreaction, drama
CountryIndia

A common man fights corruption and injustice.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration01:43

An Anglo-Indian woman works in a seedy Mumbai massage parlor while trying to find her long-lost father.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, detective
CountryIndia

A dark rainy night, an empty house, a stranded couple and an unknown man. A sleek game of the cat and the mouse starts playing on, as the three of them find a dead body in the basement.




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