Movies Similar to Ankur: The Seedling

Beti No. 1(2000)

This warmhearted comedy takes place in a household completely dominated by Durga Bhatnagar, an imposing matriarch who's desperate for a grandson and heir.

3.5

Boundary(1973)

Pajo is a hardworking, lonely but also very rich farmer. His son Toma was, however, bored with country life and tried to seek fortune in the city. Short on money, Toma returns to the farm for a handout while Pajo tries to convince him to stay.

7.0

Tadka(2022)

A middle-aged Tukaram is passionate about food and archaeology but it’s a misplaced call from Madhura that adds the tadka to his life. While love simmers, Nicole and Sidharth’s story spices up too.

6.7

Anaarkali of Aarah(2017)

Hailing from Aarah in Bihar, Anarkali is an item girl, famous for her vocals, suggestive dance moves and innuendo laden lyrics. She enjoys her stardom and revels in the lusty glances. The singer acknowledges that she is no saint and even makes peace with the hatred she evokes among civilised society but what she refuses to tolerate is being exploited in public by an influential politician.

6.8

Pratighaat(1987)

Remake of the Telugu film Pratighatana (1986). The film deals with politics-criminal nexus and a college lecturer who takes them on, even after she faces public disrobing.

6.0

Chal Pichchur Banate Hain(2012)

Suraj has everything any young man would kill for–an MBA, a well-paid job and an offer from the UK. But his dream is to become a filmmaker, and so he says goodbye to his career. Disowned by his family and friends, Suraj starts out at the bottom, pasting movie posters on walls and also faces rejection from the industry as well. This movie follows his journey from being an MBA to a filmmaker.

0.0

Moksha: Salvation(2001)

A young law student finds his strongly held ideals clashing with the work he has to undertake, leading to a crisis of confidence in this 2001 Bollywood feature from director Ashok Mehta.

5.9

Gawaahi(1989)

Jhanvi Kaul is on trial for the murder of her lover and employer, Ranjeet Choudhary. A series of prosecution witnesses build a damning case against her - that the two of them had embezzled large sums of money, that she had another lover who is also a local goon and that a witness even saw her throwing the body of Ranjeet over her apartment balcony.

0.0

Love, Sitara(2024)

Tara and Arjun travel to her hometown to work on their relationship before marriage. What happens when her family starts sharing their darkest secrets?

4.0

Antim Nyay(1993)

Jay Singh lives a middle-classed lifestyle along with his dad, Raghunath, and mom, in Bombay. His dad is killed, and both he and his mother attempt to get justice, but their efforts prove to be all in vain. Then he meets with Seema, the only daughter of Editor Aadesh Varma, both fall in love and get engaged. Jay takes a course in Indian Police Services and hopes to become a police officer.

4.0

Pad Man(2018)

Upon realizing the extent to which women are affected by their menses, a man sets out to create a sanitary pad machine and to provide inexpensive sanitary pads to the women of rural India.

7.4

Siya(2022)

A small town girl Siya, who decides to fight for justice,, fighting against all odds and starts a movement against the vicious system.

6.5

2 States(2014)

A man and a woman come from two very different cultural backgrounds, and decide that they won't get married until they convince their parents. As feared, differences between the families pose a hurdle.

6.5

Jigra(2024)

When Ankur is wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death in a foreign country, his steely sister Satya is driven by a lethal resolve to break him free.

6.3

Emergency(2025)

Based on true events that unfolded in 1975, the film chronicles incidents that took place under the leadership of Indira Gandhi, one of the most powerful women in Indian history.

3.8

Fanaa(2006)

Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan, a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.

6.8

Tamasha(1952)

Fed up of Dilip's involvement with gold digging actress Nayantara, Dilip's uncle pretends to be gravely ill in hopes of guilting him into marrying a decent girl. Dilip convinces reluctant Kiran to pretend to be his fiancée. Dilip and Kiran soon fall in love, and Nayantara decides to intervene.

0.0

Earth(1998)

It's 1947 and the borderlines between India and Pakistan are being drawn. A young girl bears witnesses to tragedy as her ayah is caught between the love of two men and the rising tide of political and religious violence.

6.6

Like Stars on Earth(2007)

Ishaan Awasthi is an eight-year-old whose world is filled with wonders that no one else seems to appreciate. Colours, fish, dogs, and kites don't seem important to the adults, who are much more interested in things like homework, marks, and neatness. Ishaan cannot seem to get anything right in class; he is then sent to boarding school, where his life changes forever.

8.0

Water(2005)

The year is 1938, and Mahatma Gandhi's groundbreaking philosophies are sweeping across India, but 8-year-old Chuyia, newly widowed, must go to live with other outcast widows on an ashram. Her presence transforms the ashram as she befriends two of her compatriots.

6.8