Spy Sagas: Bollywood's New Spice of Season

Spy Sagas: Bollywood's New Spice of Season

Spy films have a part of Indian cinema for a very long time now. And undoubted the Indian film industry has give us some outstanding spy films, let's have a look at some of these films that left an impression on everyone:

The Hero: Love story of a spy (2003)

A film by Jugal Hansraj, this film is about an an Indian agent who is on a mission to tries to prevent fundamentalist Pakistanis from building a nuclear bomb that can liberate Kashmir from India. Further when the agent plans to get engaged his fiance is abducted by the bad guys, however in the end he stops the villain from creating the bomb and saves his fiance.

16 December (2013)

16 December, 1971 was the day when India won the war against Pakistan, and was also able to liberate Bangladesh from Pakistan's rule. A film by Mani Shankar, The film is about White collar crimes that drain the nation of precious foreign exchange is connected to the funding of international terrorism. The much-told Hollywood theme is retold in the Indian context with much needed technical wizadry.

Agent Vinod (2012)

After his colleague is murdered, a spy, Agent Vinod begins a globe-trotting mission to find out what was the connection between the series of event in the past and his colleagues, murder. This film has a borrowed name from 1977 film 'Agent Vinod'. The film was directed by Sriram Raghavan.

Ek Tha Tiger (2012)

A RAW agent Tiger is on a mission to acquire information from a scientist in Dublin, where he falls in love with a girl is apparently ISI agent Zoya. The film revolves around the love story for the two spys. The film has been directed by Kabir Khan and it was one of the highest earning films of all time.

Kahaani (2012)

The story revolves around a pregnant woman who visit's Kolkata to find her missing husband. But to her surprise the no one in the city recognizes her husbands name or face. However as the story moves further the mistry unfolds and meets an unexpected end! Dilm was directed by Sujoy Ghosh.

Madras Cafe (2013)

'Madras Cafe' is an Indian political spy thriller film by Shoojit Sircar. In the film John Abraham plays the character of a army officer, during the time of Indian intervention in the Sri Lankan civil war and assassination of former Indian prime minister Rajiv Gandhi.

D-Day (2013)

The story of the film involves a team of experts who are sent on a mission to bring back India's most wanted man. But as the chain of events follow something goes terribly wrong in their mission. D-day is a film directed by Nikhil Advani starring Rishi Kapoor, Arjun Rampal and Irrfan Khan.

Baby (2014)

An officer from Counter Intelligence Unit, who is a trying to protect the nation from a terror attack. The unit goes through escalating challenges with time ticking against them and risks escalating.

The film is due for release on January 23, 2015. Akhshay Khanna starrer, Neeraj Pandey's 'Baby' is an action thriller based on terrorism.