Bollywood’s Top 10 Iconic Fights: On‑Screen & Beyond
The best fights in Bollywood are not only about punches, but also the character, stunts, the outcome, and the myths produced. The benchmark on-screen commences with Amitabh Bachchan in Zanjeer and Deewar, where primitive stunt work collided with moral dilemma to determine the era of the angry young man. The viciousness of Sunny Deol in Ghayal established a blueprint of kinetic, mob justice. The bruising train and prison fights of Jawan by Shah Rukh Khan, and the spy-versus-spy fights of Pathaan, made high-gloss spectacle but maintained the action close, fast, story-grounded. The duel between Hrithik Roshan vs Tiger Shroff in war was balletic, tactical, Aamir Khan in Dangal based the battle in discipline and heart. Take Ajay Devgn Singham, Ranveer Singh Simmba, Manoj Bajpayee Gangs of Wasseypur, and Vidyut Jammwal Kalaripayattu Commando and give it a complete range of Indian action grammar.
Top 10 list
- The fights of Amitabh Bachchan in Zanjeer (1973) and Deewar (1975): paradigm-setting roughness and ethical dilemmas.
- The ghayal (1990): lumbering justice of Sunny Deol on the streets: cathartic rewards of heavyweight intensity.
- Train fight and prison fight by Shah Rukh Khan in Jawan (2023): mass action in the present day, at close range.
- Shah Rukh Khan vs John Abraham in Pathaan (2023): air antics and fisticuffs spy-verse.
- Wrestling matches of Aamir Khan in Dangal (2016): technically authentic wrestling, character-first.
- Hrithik Roshan vs Tiger Shroff in War (2019): slick, action-packed, cat-and-mouse action.
- Ajay Devgn in Singham (2011) and Ranveer Singh in Simmba (2018): cop-verse power brawls.
- Salman Khan in Wanted (2009) and Dabangg (2010): stylized beatdowns that were the hallmark of a decade.
- Ensemble of Gangs of Wasseypur (2012): a hardboiled, consequence-oriented violence that changed crime drama.
- Vidyut Jammwal in Commando (2013): wire-light, martial-sportsmanship on Indian conditions.
The mythology was formed by off-screen feuds, as well. Its long Salman-SRK cold war split divides fandom, and subsides into cross-franchise goodwill and cameos; release-date wars elevate holiday weekends into war zones, and creative division between stars, directors and producers silently diverted seasons. There are action architects behind the frames: mayhem of Veeru Devgan and Tinu Verma, modern MMA-meets-wirework grammar of Parvez Shaikh, Anal Arasu, Vikram Dahiya, and foreign coordinators who fine-tuned global tricks to the Indian narrative. The battles which live onwards commit marriage stories to imaginative design–making reverberations long after the credits are finished.
