Republic Day 2025: List of Evergreen Patriotic Films Streaming On OTT To Watch On 26th January

Republic Day 2025: India is bracing to witness the celebrations of its 76th Republic Day. A day of immense pride reminiscing the strength and sacrifices of the country’s braves, and intellects who fought for our freedom and sovereignty. 

Films have played a crucial role in reiterating this sense of nationalism and patriotism in the generations of all time. Bollywood boasts of patriotic cinema that has moved, inspired, and encouraged many to walk the same path as our great leaders and revere their actions. 

So if you also want to feel the blood rush and enthusiasm of its fighters and makers, watch these evergreen patriotic films, available to stream on OTT. 

Evergreen Patriotic Films On OTT

OTT has given ease and access to viewers to watch these patriotic films at one click. But if you’re still wondering what to watch, here are some options.

Rang De Basanti on Netflix 

A must-watch film for the younger generation, Rang De Basanti follows a group of young students unaware of their patriotism, and the vices of the nation living only to party and celebrate their youth. As an English filmmaker casts them as actors in her docudrama on Indian freedom, they feel the tremors of revolution and rebellion in their blood to bring the change their great leader envisioned.

URI: The Surgical Strike on Zee5 

A film that will fill your lungs with tragedy and pride, followed by one another, URI: The Surgical Strike is based on the Indian army’s retaliation for the terrorist attack on the Uri’s military camp by Pakistan-based militants. The film takes the viewers closely into the planning, technological interventions, and military might of the country that made the strike a success. 

Swades on Netflix 

Indians have often eulogised the West for its modernity and advancements leading to the widely read phenomenon of brain drain. The film follows the same theme, where Mohan is an NRI scientist working with NASA making a return to India to take his grandmother to the US. But as he lives on his roots, his advocacy of the West turns into his conviction to make India advanced.  

Fighter on Netflix

Zooming the lens on the Indian Air Force, their valor, and intellect, the Siddharth Anand film highlights how their shared love of the nation gives them a second family and home at the border fighting together as comrades. The film’s high-octane action is balanced with its emphasis on the human aspect of soldiers. 

Shehshaah on Prime Video 

The biographical war-drama film, Shersaah is based on the life of Vikram Batra, martyred in action in the Kargil War. The film centers on his crazy love for the country and his all-encompassing love for his lover who he has to leave behind to serve his country.

Sam Bahadur on Zee5

Based on the life of India’s most decorated officers in the Indian army, serving for over four decades and fighting in five wars, Sam Manekshaw, the first Indian to be promoted to the rank of field marshal. The film focuses on his poignant contribution to the Bangladesh Liberation War in 1971, as the chief of the Indian army.