Today, the 26th day of November is celebrated in India as Constitution Day aka National Law Day. On the same day in the year 1949, the Constitution of India was adopted, which eventually came into effect from 26th January 1950.
On the occasion of Constitution Day, we have collated for our readers a list (in no particular order) of Indian movies which, in some way, revolve around, touch upon, or allude to the Constitution of India and/or its underlying ingredients. You can watch these films on various Indian OTT platforms.
Section 375 (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
As the name suggests, the film is based on Section 375 of the Indian Penal Code. The film’s plotline follows a legal battle between a senior criminal lawyer (Akshaye Khanna) and his former protégé (Richa Chadha), who fight for and against a famous Bollywood director (Rahul Bhatt) who has been accused of rape. Whether the accused is guilty or not and how the opposing lawyers fight the case forms the rest of the plot.
Article 15 (Streaming on Netflix)
Helmed by Anubhav Sinha (Thappad, Tum Bin), the film is set amidst the backdrop of caste discrimination. The hard-hitting movie features Ayushmann Khurrana in the role of an IPS officer who is in charge of the investigation of three young girls who went missing from a small village.
Jai Bhim (Streaming on Amazon Prime Video)
It’s an intense and disturbing courtroom investigative drama that starts off with the story of a man from a primitive tribal community who is accused of stealing from an affluent house and eventually goes missing under police custody. The man’s pregnant wife takes the help of an upright High Court advocate Chandru (Suriya) to find her missing husband. How the lawyer fights for the justice of the tribal couple, forms the rest of the narrative. ‘Jai Bhim’ is currently the highest-rated movie globally on IMDb.
Pink (Streaming on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ Hotstar)
Directed by Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, this gripping legal thriller revolves around a retired lawyer’s (Amitabh Bachchan) fight to get justice for three girls (played by Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, and Andrea Tariang) who are implicated for a crime they claim they did not commit, by a rich and influential chauvinist (Angad Bedi).
Aligarh (Streaming on Jio Cinema, Zee5, Eros Now)
Helmed by ‘Scam 1992’ director Hansal Mehta, the film features Manoj Bajpayee as a professor at the Aligarh Muslim University. After a sting operation that exposes his sexual orientation, the professor gets suspended from his job and loses his university house. A journalist (Rajkumar Rao) approaches the professor and tries to get him his job back.
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