Top 12 Bollywood Woman Empowerment Movies

Being Feminist? Here are some amazing movies that will blow your mind with the story-telling and woman empowerment concept. Some movies are also so disturbing, as we are all aware of how sensitive the word “Rape” is, so it is suggested that emotionally weak people should not watch these movies. Still, the rest, grab your popcorn, and let’s start the Entertainment with Newzertainment. 

Pink

The Pink movie revolves around the lives of three unfortunate women who were molested by three wealthy and well-known boys, one of whom was directly connected to an influential politician. The police also sided with those boys instead of supporting the women. Those women faced further molestations, false allegations, loss of their jobs, society, and family disapproval, and many more. Only one man, Deepak, the old lawyer, supported those women in their whole war against molestation.  This movie taught everyone that a “NO” from a woman means “NO”. 

• Release date: 16 September 2016 
• Ott release date: 25 March 2019
• OTT platform: Hotstar, Amazon Prime Video
• Genre: Drama, Crime
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Amitabh Bachchan, Taapsee Pannu, Kirti Kulhari, Amit Baisoya, Vinod Rai, Mamta Malik, Angad Bedi, Andrea Tariang, Piyush Mishra, Prashant Bhagia, Vijay Varma, Tushar Pandey, Arjun Chakrabarty
• Director: Anurudhha Roy Chowdhury 
• Writer: Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury, Shoojit Sircar, Ritesh Shah
• Producer: Shoojit Sircar
• Production: Rising Sun Films

For You: Top 10 K-Drama Releases for May 2026

Guilty

The Guilty movie follows the life of a badass songwriter, “Nanki” of a college band. Nanki’s boyfriend was very wealthy and was the son of a politician. Everything was going well before the arrival of a new student named Tanu at the university. Tanu had a crush on Nanki’s Boyfriend. After rejection from him, she posted a tweet stating that he raped her on Valentine’s Day.

Nanki supported his boyfriend throughout the legal process. But she was a little suspicious about him, and she started facing mental traumas and hallucinations. At the end of the movie, Nanki decided to listen to the whole story from Tanu herself, which gave her a great sense of guilt for fighting against Tanu all the time. If a woman likes you, it doesn’t mean she wants to sleep with you. Her Concern is always necessary. 

• Release date: 6 March 2020
• OTT release date: 6 March 2020
• OTT platform: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video
• Genre: Crime, Drama 
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Kiara Advani, Akansha Ranjan Kapoor, Gurfateh Pirzada, Taher Shabbir 
• Director: Ruchi Narain
• Writer: Kanika Dhillon, Ruchi Narain, Atika Chohan
• Producer: Karan Johar, Apoorva Mehta
• Production: Dharmatic Entertainment

Tottaa pataaka Item Maal

Disturbed by the constant fear of rape, harassment, and molestation every day, four women decided to bring about a revolution. They pledged that until every man realizes this same feeling, the world will not understand why everything becomes difficult for a woman. They kidnapped a man and then treated him the way a victimized woman is treated, and made a video of it. Finally, after recording a fake rape scene, they let the man go without physically harming him, like the rest of the women victims. Tottaa pataaka item maal movie tells us that rape can happen to men as well, and it cautions all men not to provoke women to do this. 

• Release date: 27 June 2019
• OTT release date: 27 June 2019
• OTT platform: Netflix, YouTube (Paid)
• Genre: Drama, Crime
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Shalini Vatsa, Chitrangada Satarupa, Sanal Joshi, Kritika Pande, Vinay Sharma, Ahmareen Anjum, Komal Chhabria, Manish Nawani, Aditya Kriplani, Sikandar Kumar, Nabila Khan
• Director: Aditya Kriplani
• Writer: Aditya Kriplani
• Producer: Aditya Kriplani
• Production: Mumba Devi Motion Pictures 

For You: How AI in Filmmaking Changing Movies in 2026: From Script to Screen

Ajji

Ajji is a movie that will surely give you goosebumps at every point. In this movie, a 9-year-old little girl named “Manda” was found raped and dumped in the trash near her slum. Her family found that a big politician did this to her, and they backed down from the fight and asked for their daughter’s medical treatment only. Even the police in this movie were very corrupt. But Ajji (Granny) won’t accept the injustice. She cut off his genital part to teach him a lesson. 

• Release date: 24 November 2017
• OTT release date: 24 November 2017
• OTT platform: Amazon Prime Video, ZEE 5, Google Play
• Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Sushama Deshpande, Abhishek Banerjee, Sharvani Suryavanshi, Smita Tambe, Sadiya Siddiqui, Vikas Kumar, Kiran Khoje
• Director: Devashish Makhija
• Writer: Devashish Makhija, Mirat Trivedi, Maya Tideman
• Producer: Siddhartha Anand Kumar, Vikram Mehra
• Production: Yoodlee Films

A Thursday 

A Thursday movie follows the life of Naina Jaiswal, who was a teacher at Little Dots Play School in Colaba. Naina took 16 students as her hostages and informed the police about this by herself. She demanded a particular inspector to work on her case. Everyone, even her fiancé, was unaware of her reasons and actions. The end of the movie reveals that it was about a rapist who raped her several years ago, and she wanted to punish him in front of the country; also, she never harmed any of her students during the process.  

• Release date: 17 February 2022
• OTT release date: 17 February 2022
• OTT platform: Disney+ Hotstar, 
• Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Yami Gautam, Atul Kulkarni, Neha Dhupia, Dimple Kapadia, Karanvir Sharma
• Director: Behzad Khambata
• Writer: Behzad Khambata
• Producer: Ronnies Screvala, Mabel Rajagopalan, Premnath Rajagopalan, Rohit Vaid
• Production: RSVP Movies

Bulbbul

This movie revolves around the life of a Bengali girl, Bulbbul, who was unknowingly married in her childhood to a man doubles her age. She, after moving to her in-laws’ house, found a best friend in her brother-in-law, who was the same age as Bulbbul. Time passed, and Bulbbul fell in love with her brother-in-law. This movie shows the brutality of child marriage, domestic violence, harassment, and rape with a blend of supernatural powers and fairy tales. 

• Release date: 24 June 2020
• OTT release date: 24 June 2020
• OTT platform: Netflix
• Genre: Horror, Thriller, Drama, Crime
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast:  Tripti Dimri, Avinash Tiwary, Paoli Dam, Rahul Bose, Parambrata Chatterjee
• Director: Anvita Dutta
• Writer: Anvita Dutta
• Producer: Anushka Sharma, Karnesh Sharma, Hetvi Karia
• Production: Netflix

For You: Top 12 Bollywood movies that will never get old

Bandit Queen

This movie is based on the true story of the life of “Phoolan Devi”. The movie shows how Phoolan Devi had to face one rape after another and how she was brutally beaten every time. Whether it was her husband, the police, or the goons, Phoolan Devi had to face harassment, molestation, and rape everywhere. After becoming a major part of a big gang, Phoolan Devi took revenge for all the crimes committed against her through a massive attack. This act of vengeance brings her to the attention of the national law enforcement authorities (in New Delhi). The top police officials now begin a massive manhunt for Phoolan. 

Finally, in 1983, she surrendered herself to the authorities for the sake of her gang’s safety. In 1994, all the charges against her were withdrawn, and finally Phoolan Devi was set free. The movie Bandit Queen can be considered as one of the most disturbing movies, and it becomes more horrible after thinking that this happened in reality with a woman. 

• Release date: 26 January 1996
• OTT platform: Amazon Prime Video, YouTube (FREE)
• Genre: Brutality, Crime, Thriller, Action, Biography
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Seema Biswas, Nirmal Pandey, Rajesh Vivek, Raghuvir Yadav, Anirudh Agarwal, Aseem Bajaj, Manoj Bajpayee, Pallavi Bharti.
• Director: Shekhar Kapur
• Writer: Mala Sen
• Producer: Bobby Bedi
• Production: Film4 Productions, Kaleidoscope Entertainment, Kaleidoscope Pictures

Mardaani 2

Mardaani 2 is the second sequel of Mardaani. In this movie, a female officer Shivani Roy handled a rape and murder case of a woman. She suspects Sunny, who was working for a politician and was in a high post. It was somehow clear from the beginning of the story that Sunny was the one who raped and murdered the woman, but making him confess to it or proving this by some evidence is a challenging task that Shivani Roy vows to complete and bring him to justice.

• Release date: 13 December 2019
• OTT release date: 13 December 2019
• OTT platform: Amazon Prime Video
• Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Rani Mukerji, Sunny Hinduja, Shruti Bapna, Vikram Singh Chauhan, Jisshu Sengupta, Rajesh Sharma, Avneet Kaur, Pariva Pranati.
• Director: Gopi Puthran
• Writer: Gopi Puthran
• Producer: Aditya Chopra
• Production: Yash Raj Films

For You: Hand-Picked Bollywood Netflix Originals

Bhoomi

Bhoomi movie revolves around the life of Bhoomi, who was a designer and was planning to get married to Neeraj Mathur, his best friend. But her neighbor, Vishal, was not happy with this marriage because he had a crush on Bhoomi. He started stalking her and forcing her to cancel this marriage, which resulted in Bhoomi’s anger, and she slapped him. Vishal, burning in the flames of revenge, kidnapped Bhoomi along with her cousin and subjected them to gang rape one by one. After not receiving any help from the police, Bhoomi and her father decided to take matters into their own hands and seek revenge against Vishal and the other perpetrators.

• Release date:  22 September 2017
• OTT platform: Amazon Prime Video
• Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin:  India
• Cast: Sanjay Dutt, Aditi Rao Hydari, Shekhar Suman, Sidhant Gupta, Sharad Kelkar
• Director: Omung Kumar
• Writer: Raaj Shaandilyaa
• Producer: Omung Kumar, Sandip S singh, Krishan Kumar, Bhushan Kumar, Sandeep Singh, Manish Singh
• Production: T-series, Legend Studios

Chhapaak

Chhapaak movie is a biography of real acid attack victim Laxmi Agarwal. Laxmi wanted to learn singing and wanted to become a very good and famous singer. She also had a boyfriend. Laxmi had a neighbor who was much older than her and had an evil eye on her. Laxmi refused the proposal of her neighbor, which led him to throw acid on her face in a crowded market in front of everyone. Laxmi accepted her condition and her disfigured face and went to great lengths to send the man who attacked her to jail.

Later, it was found that there was not much change in the life of the man who attacked Laxmi, and he easily got bail. In fact, he was going to get married in a few years and was eventually released from jail. After that, Laxmi joined an NGO that works for acid attack victims and started working for them. Along with that, she also got involved in increasing the punishment for acid attacks in court.

• Release date: 10 January 2020
• OTT platform: Disney+ Hotstar
• Genre: Crime, Drama, Biography
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Deepika Padukone, Vikrant Massey, Madhurjeet Sarghi, Archana Bajaj, Shiraz Jamshed
• Director: Meghn Gulzar
• Writer: Atika Chohan; Meghna Gulzar
• Producer: Govind Singh Sandhu Meghna Gulzar
• Production: Fox Star Studios, Ka Productions, Avernus Productions, Mriga Films

22 Female Kottayam

22 Female Kottayam is a story of a woman named Tessa who fell in love with Cyril, an aggressive, wealth-greedy man who believes in the concept of male supremacy. Cyril offered his boss Hegde to rape Tessa. Tessa was raped twice by Hegde. When Tessa decided to murder Hegde, Hegde and Cyril planned to imprison her by putting drugs in her bag. She realized that Cyril was behind all this. After getting released from jail, she murdered Hegde and cut the male genital part of Cyril. She told Cyril that she only lost someone who cheated on her, but he lost someone who loved him.

• Release date: 13 April 2012
• OTT platform: Amazon Prime Video
• Genre: Romance, Drama, Thriller, Crime
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Fahadh Faasil, Rima Kallingal, Pratap Pothen, Riya Saira, Srinda
• Director: Aashiq Abu
• Writer: Abhilash S. Kumar, Syam Pushkaran
• Producer: OG Sunil, Ogee Sunil
• Production: FilmBrewery

For You: Upcoming Bollywood Movies releasing in Summer 2026

Lajja

This movie revolves around a housewife named Vaidehi. She was assaulted by her husband continuously. When she got pregnant, her husband and her father-in-law planned to make the son from her womb the heir of the family, and if Vaidehi came in between, they would kill her. She ran away from her husband. During her journey of escape, she met many other women who were either victims of dowry, harassment, or rape.

• Release date: 31 August 2001
• OTT platform: Amazon Prime Video, Eros Now, YouTube (Paid)
• Genre: Drama
• Language: Hindi
• Country of origin: India 
• Cast: Manisha Koirala, Jackie Shroff, Madhuri Dixit
• Director: Rajkumar Santoshi
• Writer: Rajkumar Santoshi, Ajay Devgan, Tinnu Anand, Jagdeep
• Producer: Rajkumar Santoshi
• Production: Santosh Productions

Which Woman Empowerment Movie Did You Like?

Did you choose any movie from the above suggestions? If yes, then please don’t forget to give us your feedback on both the movie and our suggestions in the comments below. Stay connected to Newsertainment for more suggestions like this and for up-to-date information about upcoming Hollywood, Bollywood, and Anime movies or web series. Providing you with all the ways of Entertainment is what the job of Newzertainment is.

Frequently Asked Questions