20 Bollywood Films That Were Great Thrillers

Bollywood has produced all sorts of films in the past and continues to do so. Some of them grip us while some of them fail to work their magic. But once in a while comes along a film that is beyond all this. This is that film that is bound to become a classic, or at least will always be remembered. These films make the career of the actors who are a part of the film and take them to greater levels of success. We are talking about thrillers here, particularly psychological thrillers. Today we will talk about some of the best psychological thrillers that Bollywood has ever produced.

1. Karthik Calling Karthik Click to look into! >> Read More...

Karthik is an introvert who suddenly starts receiving calls early in the morning. The person on the other end claims to be himself, and makes the claim with such assertion that it changes his life forever. It them becomes a struggle to recognize who the person calling him is, it is really himself, his alter ego, or is it some other matter altogether.

2. Kaun

This film has been counted as the best of Bollywood, it has been counted as the best of Ram Gopal Varma Ram Gopal Varma is a famed Indian film director an >> Read More... , and it has been counted as the best of Urmila Matondkar Urmila Matondkar is an Indian actress born on 4th >> Read More... . In the film, her character awaits the return of her family, but the doorbell rings and enters a strange man. The entire film is set in just a house, revolves around only 3 characters and unfolds in the space of just one night.

3. Gupt

This film is perhaps the film that Bobby Deol Bobby Deol was a treat to watch when he walks to t >> Read More... knows is the best of his entire career. In fact, it was what kept him in Bollywood for so many years. It is a murder mystery that was caused due to a love triangle. The character’s father is murdered, and his own son is held responsible. What comes as a real shock is the climax, when the actual culprit is revealed.

4. Khamosh

This was one unconventional film! It starred great actors, like Amol Palekar Amol Palekar was born on 24th November, 1944 in Mu >> Read More... , Shabana Azmi Shabana Azmi is a film actress of Indian origin an >> Read More... and Naseeruddin Shah Naseeruddin Shah is an experimental actor and asso >> Read More... as the leads. When they are on the set of a movie in Bollywood, someone mysteriously starts to commit murders, and no one can find the murderer until the very end of the movie.

5. Deewangee

The film focuses on a man who is accused of murder, but he must save himself, so he starts to behave as though he is suffering from split personality disorder. Although he is only pretending to be mentally unstable, he is not completely fine either, as he is in reality an obsessive lover, which does convey psychological disturbance. A Hollywood film starring Richard Gere Richard Gere is an American actor, known for his o >> Read More... called Primal Fear became the inspiration for this film.

6. Darr

The role that Shah Rukh Khan Shah Rukh Khan or also known as SRK is a prominent >> Read More... plays in this film was first offered to Aamir Khan Aamir Khan or Mohammed Aamir Hussain Khan is Bolly >> Read More... , who rejected it as it was a negative role that he believed might create a negative image for himself. However, Shah Rukh’s career rests on his brilliant performance in the movie, where he does the role of an obsessed lover who tries to break-up a couple. The Hollywood flick Cape Fear inspired the film’s climax.

7. No Smoking Click to look into! >> Read More...

The film is one of those films that are so clever and intense that you may have to watch it again. A man who is obsessed with himself agrees to let go of his habit of smoking for the sake of his marriage. In the rehabilitation center that he visits, he meets a man who promises to help him. However, this man plays a complex game that will keep you sitting wide eyed throughout the film.

8. Aamir

Another one of ‘ Rajeev Khandelwal Rajeev Khandelwal is a model turned film and telev >> Read More... ’s brilliant performances that prove he deserves a lot more than what Bollywood has given him, Aamir focuses on the life of an NRI who finds out that his family has been kidnapped by terrorists who want him to plant a bomb. He then must fight in order to save his family, but must that also man the death of millions of others?

9. A Wednesday

The movie was later remade into Hollywood as “A Common Man” that starred Ben Cross and Ben Kingsley Ben Kingsley born in Snainton village of England a >> Read More... . The film talks about a police commissioner who is just about to retire. He is asked to recount a case that he considers the most memorable in his career and he describes a bomb scare that does not even have a file. Only those who were involved know about this case that unfolded on a Wednesday.

10. Woh Kaun Thi

This was one of those films that brought the very genre of thrillers to Bollywood. We meet a doctor who is kind enough to offer a ride to a woman who is alone on a stormy night. However, strange things start happening thereafter and he later discovers that the woman he offered a ride to is the woman he is supposed to marry.

11. 100 Days

A woman suddenly starts to see flashes of her sister’s murder. She has extrasensory perception and what follows is a mysterious journey towards finding the killer. Other things that get involved are a skeleton, a video cassette, a horse spread out on a magazine cover and a missing dead body. It is one of those films that make you feel your heartbeat.

12. Khiladi

Akshay Kumar Akshay Kumar was born on 9th September 1967 and hi >> Read More... proved his worth as an actor in his very first film. It was the first of the khiladi series that got him the name of being Bollywood’s Khiladi and everyone watches in awe as what seemed to be a college romance morphs into a thriller where nothing is as it seems to be and every step needs to be thought of carefully.

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This movie is known for the great acting skills of Urmila and Saif Ali Khan Saif Ali Khan is a film celebrity born to actress  >> Read More... and the wonderful script it had. A couple in love soon find themselves in a completely different place when the girl is convicted for a murder she did not commit. She later returns after completing her sentence, wanting nothing but revenge.

14. Sangharsh

The film, starring Akshay Kumar and Preity Zinta Preity, also known as Preity Zinta is a famous Act >> Read More... focuses on a religious fanatic who sacrifices children. For sacrificing them, he abducts them and a police must track him down. She asks a convict for help to save the children. This film was a remake of the Hollywood film “The Silence Of The Lambs” and also had Alia Bhatt Alia Bhatt is a trendsetting actress from Mumbai, >> Read More... in it, who played one of the children in the film.

15. Agni Sakshi

This film is one of those films which when you watch them, you realize why people always say that Nana Patekar Nana Patekar is a popular Indian actor who was bor >> Read More... is underrated. A couple lives happily, content in their life, but then they come across a man who claims that the woman is actually his wife and has a different name. Nana Patekar is scary enough to give nightmares in this film, that was inspired by Sleeping With The Enemy, an English movie.

16. Talaash Click to look into! >> Read More...

Aamir Khan plays a police inspector in the film, who must solve a multi-layered case that is years old and involved a few friends and a call girl. Meanwhile, he must also deal with a failing marriage after his son dies. What is perhaps the most thrilling aspect is a woman called Rosie, who only he can see.

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This is another one of the veteran films that are almost as good as the classics. When Geeta dies, her husband is informed that a woman called Sunaina has been detained. When the two meet, Sunaina claims to be Geeta and reveals things that only a man’s wife can know about him. Here a dilemma arises, of whether this woman is really Geeta or just wants a life of luxury.

18. Kahaani Click to look into! >> Read More...

The story focuses on a pregnant woman who is out in search of her husband, who has gone missing. At first it seems to be a pretty conventional plot, but things change when she starts to question people and everyone she meets denies ever having met her husband. Perhaps the most gripping and astonishing of the film is its climax, which leaves people in awe of the script writer.

19. Ek Ruka Hua Faisla

An Indian version of “12 Angry Men”, this film focuses on a jury that decides against a man who is accused on his own father’s murder. All of the jury is against him, except one old man who does not seem to agree. All the members then try and fail to convince this man in order to reach a decision.

20. Gumnaam

The film is a cult classic. Even its music has been used several times in various Hollywood projects. It concerns with a group of people who are taken to an island on a chartered plane, in pretext of having won a contest. They are then abandoned in a mansion with a queer butler. Soon, the guests start to get murdered.