Films based on Indian novels

2008 film directed by Danny Boyle

2009 film directed by Rajkumar Hirani

2002 Hindi film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

1955 film by Satyajit Ray

2015 film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Aparajito ( ; The Unvanquished) is a 1956 Indian Bengali-language drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray, and is the second part of The Apu Trilogy. It is an adaptation of the last part of Bibhutibhushan Bannerjee's novel Pather Panchali and the first part of his followup novel Aparajito. The film starts off where the previous film Pather Panchali (1955) ended, with Apu's family moving to Varanasi, and chronicles Apu's life from childhood to adolescence in college.

Charulata (, ; also known as The Lonely Wife) is a 1964 Indian drama film written and directed by Satyajit Ray. Based on Rabindranath Tagore's novella Nastanirh, it stars Soumitra Chatterjee, Madhabi Mukherjee, and Shailen Mukherjee. The film is widely regarded as one of Ray's finest works.

2006 film directed by Mira Nair

2022 film directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

1994 film by Shekhar Kapur

1994 film by Sooraj R. Barjatya

1999 film by Sanjay Leela Bhansali

1981 Indian musical film by Muzaffar Ali

1955 Hindi film directed by Bimal Roy

Raazi () is a 2018 Indian Hindi-language spy thriller film directed by Meghna Gulzar and produced by Vineet Jain, Karan Johar, Hiroo Yash Johar and Apoorva Mehta under the banners of Junglee Pictures and Dharma Productions. It stars Alia Bhatt, alongside Vicky Kaushal, Rajit Kapur, Shishir Sharma, and Jaideep Ahlawat. The film is an adaptation of Harinder Sikka's 2008 novel Calling Sehmat, a true account of an Indian Research and Analysis Wing (RAW) agent who, upon her father's request, is married into a family of military officers in Pakistan to relay information to India, prior to the Indo-P

Indian film (2023) by Vidhu Vinod Chopra

2005 film by Pradeep Sarkar

1962 film by Abrar Alvi

1965 film by Vijay Anand

2006 Indian film by J. P. Dutta

1963 film by Bimal Roy

2014 film directed by Abhishek Varman

2013 film by Sanjay Gupta

1970 film by Satyajit Ray

1936 Hindi film by Pramathesh Barua

1984 film by Satyajit Ray

2024 film directed by Blessy

Shamshera is a 2022 Indian Hindi-language period action drama film directed by Karan Malhotra and produced by Aditya Chopra. The film stars Ranbir Kapoor in a dual role, alongside Sanjay Dutt, Vaani Kapoor, Ronit Roy, and Saurabh Shukla. It follows the captivity of an oppressed warrior tribe during the British Raj.

1978 film by Shyam Benegal

Seemabaddha ( Shimabôddho; English title: Company Limited) is a 1971 social drama Bengali film directed by Satyajit Ray. It is based on the novel Seemabaddha by Mani Shankar Mukherjee. It stars Barun Chanda, Harindranath Chattopadhyay, and Sharmila Tagore in lead roles. The film was the second entry in Ray's Calcutta trilogy, which included Pratidwandi (The Adversary) (1970) and Jana Aranya (The Middleman) (1976). The films deal with the rapid modernization of Calcutta, rising corporate culture and greed, and the futility of the rat race. The film won the FIPRESCI Award at the 33rd Venice Inte

1974 film by Satyajit Ray

2003 film by Chandraprakash Dwivedi on Hindu-Muslim conflict during partition of India.

2013 Indian Hindi-language film directed by Abhishek Kapoor

1953 Indian film by Bimal Roy

Chhaava () is a 2025 Indian Hindi-language epic historical action film based on the life of Sambhaji, the second ruler of the Maratha Empire, who is played by Vicky Kaushal. An adaptation of the Marathi novel Chhava by Shivaji Sawant, it is directed by Laxman Utekar and produced by Dinesh Vijan under Maddock Films. The cast also includes Akshaye Khanna and Rashmika Mandanna.

2003 film by Rituparno Ghosh

1935 Bengali film by Pramathesh Barua

2019 film directed by Abhishek Sharma

1967 film by Hrishikesh Mukherjee

1975 film by B. V. Karanth

1976 film by Satyajit Ray

1982 film

1978 film by Raj Khosla

2015 film directed by Kabir Khan

1977 film by Basu Chatterjee

Visaranai () is a 2016 Indian Tamil-language crime drama film written and directed by Vetrimaaran. The film was produced by Dhanush under his banner Wunderbar Films. It is based on the novel Lock Up by M. Chandrakumar. The film stars Dinesh, Anandhi, Samuthirakani, Aadukalam Murugadoss, Kishore, Pradheesh Raj, and Silambarasan Rathnasamy. The film deals with the lives of two men before and after being thrown into a kafkaesque scenario in which they get tortured for confession. Vetrimaaran later told that, in the beating sequences in the film, the actors were really beaten (which was criticized

Dharmputra is a 1961 Hindi film directed by Yash Chopra based on a novel of the same name by Acharya Chatursen. This is Yash's second directorial venture. It was the first Hindi film to depict the partition of India, and Hindu fundamentalism. Produced by his elder brother B.R. Chopra, who was himself uprooted from Lahore, during the partition of India and established B.R. Films in Mumbai in 1956. The film dealt with issues of religious bigotry, fanaticism and communalism amidst the backdrop of the partition. Two years earlier, Yash Chopra had made his debut with Dhool Ka Phool (1959), steeped

1957 film by Tapan Sinha

1975 film by K. S. Sethumadhavan

2015 film by Anurag Kashyap

2009 film by Ashutosh Gowariker

1992 Indian Hindi film directed by Shyam Benegal

2022 film directed by Rohit Shetty

2015 film directed by Dibakar Banerjee

1989 film by Mrinal Sen

1970 Bollywood drama film

1989 film by Adoor Gopalakrishnan

2012 Tamil film directed by S. Shankar

1966 film by Hrishikesh Mukherjee

1974 film by Awtar Krishna Kaul