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On the Yamuna plain in northern India, Delhi is a huge metropolis where old walled quarters stand beside wide government avenues and new suburbs. Mughal emperors built Shahjahanabad here and Britain added New Delhi as imperial capital in 1911, so stories layer courts, partition arrivals and pressured family life. Rang De Basanti and Hindi Medium sit on its shelf. Open Delhi on the StoryTerra map and filter its stories by any era.

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10 famous stories set in Delhi

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Browse 27 books and 61 movies set in Delhi.

Attack

Attack

JA Entertainment-Pen Studios-Ajay Kapoor Productions
movie

With the Parliament under siege India’s first super soldier Arjun Shergill is tasked to get hold of the terrorists in the nick of time save the Prime Minister from their clutches and stop a dirty bomb from exploding and…

Setting: Delhi, IndiaTime Period: 2022
Rang De Basanti

Rang De Basanti

UTV Motion Pictures-Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra Pictures
movie

After a group of friends graduate from Delhi University they listlessly haunt their old campus until a British filmmaker casts them in a film she's making about freedom fighters under British rule. Although the group is…

Setting: Delhi, IndiaTime Period: Early 2000s; British India
Mom

Mom

Mad Films-Third Eye Pictures
movie

After her stepdaughter is sexually assaulted at a party a furious mother sets out to destroy the lives of the four perpetrators who walked free.

Setting: Delhi, IndiaTime Period: 2010s
Hindi Medium

Hindi Medium

Maddock Films
movie

Mita and Raj Batra an affluent couple from Delhi’s Chandni Chowk are grappling with getting their daughter admission into an English medium school. But there is one big problem. Their zubaan is Hindi and the elitist…

Setting: Delhi, IndiaTime Period: 2017
Fanaa

Fanaa

Yash Raj Films
movie

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…

Setting: Delhi, India; Kashmir, IndiaTime Period: 2006
Viceroy's House

Viceroy's House

BBC Films-India Take One Productions-Pathé Productions-BFI-Reliance Entertainment-Bend It Films-Ingenious-Deepak Nayar Productions-Anguille Productions-Filmgate
movie

In 1947 Lord Mountbatten assumes the post of last Viceroy charged with handing India back to its people living upstairs at the house which was the home of British rulers whilst 500 Hindu Muslim and Sikh servants lived…

Setting: Delhi, IndiaTime Period: 1947
India's Daughter

India's Daughter

Assassin Films-Tathagat Films-BBC Storyville
movie

The story of the short life and brutal gang rape and murder in Delhi in December 2012 of an exceptional and inspiring young woman. The rape of the 23 year old medical student by 6 men on a moving bus and her death…

Setting: Delhi, IndiaTime Period: December 2012
Delhi Belly

Delhi Belly

Aamir Khan Productions-UTV Motion Pictures
movie

Three unsuspecting average guys find themselves on the hit list of one of India's most-powerful crime syndicates.

Setting: Delhi, IndiaTime Period: 2010s
Monsoon Wedding

Monsoon Wedding

Mirabai Films-IFC Films
movie

As the romantic monsoon rains loom the extended Verma family reunites from around the globe for a last-minute arranged marriage in New Delhi. This film traces five intersecting stories each navigating different aspects…

Setting: New Delhi, IndiaTime Period: 2000s
Khosla Ka Ghosla!

Khosla Ka Ghosla!

UTV Motion Pictures
movie

Upon retirement cranky control freak Kamal Kishore Khosla obsesses about procuring a plot of land in Delhi where he plans to build his dream house. After investing his entire life's savings to acquire the land he…

Setting: Delhi, IndiaTime Period: 2006

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