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Partition sagas, Mumbai's maximum city, Kerala's backwaters and colonial hill stations — India anchors some of the richest fiction in English and beyond. These ten famous works are the doorway; StoryTerra's map holds thousands more, from ancient epics' settings to today's megacities, filterable by city and era.

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10 famous stories set in India

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Browse 508 books, 3,138 movies, 10 TV shows and 34 games set in India.

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge

Yash Raj Films
movie

Raj is a rich carefree happy-go-lucky second generation NRI. Simran is the daughter of Chaudhary Baldev Singh who in spite of being an NRI is very strict about adherence to Indian values. Simran has left for India to be…

Setting: London, UK; IndiaTime Period: 1990s
Lion

Lion

The Weinstein Company-See-Saw Films-Screen Australia-Aquarius Films-Sunstar Entertainment
movie

A five-year-old Indian boy gets lost on the streets of Calcutta thousands of kilometers from home. He survives many challenges before being adopted by a couple in Australia; 25 years later he sets out to find his lost…

Setting: India; AustraliaTime Period: 1980s & 2010s
Slumdog Millionaire

Slumdog Millionaire

Celador Films-Film4 Productions
movie

A teenager reflects on his life after being accused of cheating on the Indian version of "Who Wants to be a Millionaire?".

Setting: Mumbai, IndiaTime Period: 2000s
Life of Pi

Life of Pi

Fox 2000 Pictures-Dune Entertainment-Ingenious Media-Haishang Films-Netter Productions
movie

The story of an Indian boy named Pi a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena zebra orangutan and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.

Setting: India; Pacific OceanTime Period: 1970s
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

Paramount Pictures-Lucasfilm Ltd.
movie

After arriving in India Indiana Jones is asked by a desperate village to find a mystical stone. He agrees – and stumbles upon a secret cult plotting a terrible plan in the catacombs of an ancient palace.

Setting: IndiaTime Period: 1935
Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Mission: Impossible - Ghost Protocol

Paramount-Bad Robot-TC Productions-Skydance
movie

Ethan Hunt and his team are racing against time to track down a dangerous terrorist named Hendricks who has gained access to Russian nuclear launch codes and is planning a strike on the United States. An attempt to stop…

Setting: Moscow, Russia; Mumbai, India; Dubai, UAETime Period: 2011
Extraction

Extraction

AGBO-Thematic Entertainment-TGIM Films
movie

Tyler Rake a fearless mercenary who offers his services on the black market embarks on a dangerous mission when he is hired to rescue the kidnapped son of a Mumbai crime lord.

Setting: Dhaka, Bangladesh; Mumbai, IndiaTime Period: Contemporary
The Jungle Book

The Jungle Book

Walt Disney Productions
movie

The boy Mowgli makes his way to the man-village with Bagheera the wise panther. Along the way he meets jazzy King Louie the hypnotic snake Kaa and the lovable happy-go-lucky bear Baloo who teaches Mowgli "The Bare…

Setting: IndiaTime Period: Fantasy: Late 19th Century
3 Idiots

3 Idiots

Vidhu Vinod Chopra Productions-Vinod Chopra Films
movie

Rascal. Joker. Dreamer. Genius... You've never met a college student quite like "Rancho." From the moment he arrives at India's most prestigious university Rancho's outlandish schemes turn the campus upside down—along…

Setting: IndiaTime Period: 2000s
RRR

RRR

DVV Entertainment-Pen Studios-Lyca Productions
movie

A fictional history of two legendary revolutionaries' journey away from home before they began fighting for their country in the 1920s.

Setting: IndiaTime Period: 1920s

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