Siddharth Anand is the director of the 2024 Indian Hindi-language action movie Fighter, which is based on a script he co-wrote with Ramon Chibb. Starring Hrithik Roshan, Deepika Padukone, and Anil Kapoor, the film is produced by Viacom18 Studios and Marflix Pictures. It is the first in a planned series of aerial action films.

The movie was revealed on January 10, 2021. The COVID-19 epidemic caused a delay in pre-production. Ultimately, principal photography started in November 2022 and ran concurrently in Assam, Hyderabad, Jammu & Kashmir, Mumbai, and other locations. It was completed in late October. For the movie, real Indian Air Force cadets were involved. The movie makes allusions to the 2019 Balakot airstrike, the 2019 Pulwama assault, and the 2019 border skirmishes between India and Pakistan.[7][8] Five tracks make up Vishal-Shekhar’s soundtrack CD for the movie. Satchith Paulose is the cinematographer for the movie. DNEG is in charge of the graphics.

Terrorist group Guruvadi, commanded by Azhar Akhtar, plans to attack India in Srinagar, Kashmir, aiming to target the Indian Air Force and the Srinagar Air Force Station.[9]

Captain of the group, Rakesh “Rocky” As part of his mission to neutralize the threat, Jai Singh assembles a group of expert jet pilots known as the “Air Dragons.” The squad consists of Squadron Leaders Sukhdeep Singh “Sukhi,” Basheer Khan “Bash,” Minal Rathore “Minni,” Shamsher Pathania “Patty,” and Sartaj Gill “Taj.” The squad members become closer during training, and Minni starts to sense a love attraction toward Patty. But Patty’s history haunts him because he lost his fiancée on a previous assignment. The group finds out about an Akhtar-organized attack on CRPF men in Pulwama.

Fighter’s planned September 30, 2023, cinema release date was postponed owing to production issues. On January 25, 2024, it was released in theaters on the weekend of Republic Day.