Most of the movies released in the Telugu film industry are based on love, romance and family backdrop. But there is a category which makes the audience thrilled till the end of the movies, that genre is Telugu sports movies on OTT and mixed with drama. You may be stunned to watch those movies streaming on popular OTT platforms.
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We discuss the films one by one how they became that much popular among the audience. And also we will spread the word to encourage others to watch sports movies by signing up to the OTT platforms like netflix, amazon prime video, zee5, sony liv, jio hotstar, sun nxt, aha etc.
We could not stay back without saying more about sports movies across the world, telugu movies are having touch of native swag and culture undermined in the movies. Songs, emotion, risk, disappointment on one hand and encouragement by the lead of the film, positive thinking, struggles faced with ease and courage to reach the goal on the other hand will make the audience sit at the edge of their seats in theaters. Here in this article we come across many Best Telugu sports films. Continue reading the article for further information.
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However our audience not only watch movies in theaters but also watch live and visit the stadium for IPL kind of matches as we have seen recently in june 2025 in patel stadium in ahmedabad. We have seen the cricket lovers come out of their houses and celebrate the RCB victory on roads by gathering in hundreds or thousands. So, we can say there are lovers for sports movies to the core.
The list goes as mentioned below.
1. Thammudu (1999):
The movie is based on the boxing sport. Pawan kalyan acted as an easy going life kind of person. Throughout the day he roams on roads, around college girls and repeatedly fails in his exams. He became a big headache to his father and his family. He has an older brother who is sincere at studies, sports (boxing) and helps his parents in his free time. This movie comes under the list of telugu movies about sports and athletes. This movie was a huge hit at that time.
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Pawan has a neighbor, family friend named Subbu (preethi) who became friend to pawan kalyan. Both of them are classmates. He takes the help of her when he needs pocket money etc. his brother once competed with an opponent in college games and failed. Finally pawan kalyan changed his mind and fulfilled his brothers dream of winning the boxing championship and also winning the heart of his family and Subbu as well.
This story is purely emotional and shows all kinds of humour, angry, love, greed etc. so this is a must watch movie on ott streaming platform.
2. Okkadu (2003)
This movie is directed by guna sekhar. Mahesh babu performed so well in this movie. The film is based on a kabaddi match. He is a kabaddi player, having a nice family living in hyderabad near charminar. Once he visited kurnool along with his friend. He accidentally saw a man hurting a woman. He hit the goon and took her to the safe place (to his house) in Hyderabad.
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She falls in love with him. He won a contest against the goon who found the place where the woman and hero resides and reached the stadium where the hero attempted to win a kabaddi match. Goons occupied the rival team and fought rigorously and finally the hero won. There are many such Sports-based Telugu films online, but this one is very intensive.
The action, love, emotion and sports drama cultivated very well by the director. This is a must watch movie on ott streaming platform.
3. Amma nanna o tamil ammayi (2003)
This is a pure sports drama directed by puri jagannath, a great stylish and dashing director of telugu film industry. He made an “idiot” with ravi teja, and immediately started the movie "amma nanna o tamila Ammayi”. The movie is very much intensified with the narration of the story along with comedy sequences.
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We think every telugu film lover has watched this movie already, but that is not the case here. You can watch these Inspirational sports movies in Telugu again as you grow up, and you will understand the movies in a new dimension. For instance you watched movies in your childhood, but you understood it very less. Now watch the same movie, you are now matured enough to understand the depth of the film. So, this way everybody must watch the films a couple of times to understand the plot and hidden points to catch up frequently.
The story goes like this. Ravi Teja and his mother stay in Hyderabad. He is a boxing lover. His father, also a boxer, left both of them to focus more on boxing and went to vizag. Later Ravi Teja's mother dies and reveals the story. He visits vizag city and finds out his father settled with another woman and had a girl too. He gets angry but he stays there.
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Anand , a favorite student of Ravi Teja's father, deceived the coach and betrayed his daughter. Ravi Teja fights for justice and finally marries the Tamil woman who is the love of his life.
The scenes are pretty interesting and the dialogues, story telling blows our mind. One must watch once again and feel the sports conceptual emotional drama.
4. Lakshya (2004):
This is an Indian historic sport “archery” based film. Naga sourya performed well in this sports movie. The plot of the film and narration was fine. One must watch the film how a sports man struggles to reach his goal in the present circumstances.
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Coming to the story of the film, naga sourya is a talented archer from childhood. His grandfather trained him well to reach new heights. But as the days moved on some opponents killed his grandfather and naga sourya became addicted to drugs. This is a purely Sports genre movie in Telugu which might not create a box office hit, but you can learn a lesson from this movie.
Later he comes to know that it is all a trap, but he could not recover. His father;s friend came to know this and encouraged him to do well again in archery. He also has a girlfriend ketika sharma, she left when he was low in his life, but later joins him to support to win international archery games. Finally he wins the cup and the story reaches a happy ending.
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The story of this Telugu sports biopics OTT movie narration is good but lack of screenplay and some negative sense caused this movie to fail at box office, but the story inspires every one and this movie shows how the will power moves a person to reach his goal. A must watch by all sports film lovers. Watch it on the OTT platform now..
4. Ningi nela nadhe (2009):
This movie is not a straight film in telugu but it receives huge applause from both film lovers and critics. One who wishes to get inspiration, they must watch this movie.
Coming to the storyline, there was a family who had a daughter. The couple dreamt of their daughter to study in a great university and settle well in her life. For that they make kites day and night to arrange money for her studies. One day the daughter lost her 2 hands in a kite accident.
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Since that time the struggle for the family starts. How they overcome the hurdles and how they succeed in racing to a new point of their life is the rest of the story of this Must-watch Telugu sports based movie. This movie is an eye opener for society about how they treat physically challenged people.
One must watch this kind of film at least once in their life to gain inspiration in their life. Watch this film on telugu ott streaming platforms now along with the list given above. Never think that a movie can bring change in your thoughts, but it does.
The other movies that are based on sports background, you must watch. As we can not explain all of them here you just browse for the movie on otthunt website, read the description and watch it on the guided platform. Thanks…
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Dhoni (2012)
Guru (2017)
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