Bullett Raja, Mirzapur, Khuda Haafiz and other films and shows that captured grit and glory of Uttar Pradesh on screen

Though the story is set in Bareilly, the film was shot largely in Lucknow, with the team recreating the narrow streets and railway station of Bareilly in the capital city of Uttar Pradesh. The romantic comedy blends local flavour with authentic small-town life, featuring Ayushmann Khurrana, Kriti Sanon, and Rajkummar Rao.

The 2019 remake, starring Kartik Aaryan, Bhumi Pednekar, and Ananya Panday, is set in Lucknow, and includes key characters like Inspector Mukhtar Singh of the Lucknow Police, underscoring its UP setting. This modern comedy explores urban marital dynamics with a North‑Indian twist.

Shot across Mirzapur, Jaunpur, Azamgarh, Ghazipur, Lucknow, Gorakhpur, and Varanasi, the gritty crime thriller uses real locales like the Azmatgarh Palace (depicted as Tripathi Manor) to bring its UP gangland world to life.

While the film’s main storyline unfolds abroad, action-packed sequences were filmed in Lucknow, adding a regional touch to Vidyut Jammwal’s rescue mission tale.

Primarily shot in Jharkhand’s coal belt, select sequences were filmed in Mirzapur, UP, to capture the authentic rural ambience characteristic of the region’s crime saga.

This crime thriller starring Nawazuddin Siddiqui filmed several scenes in Lucknow’s Thakurganj, where Siddiqui’s cop character investigates a murder in local neighbourhoods.

This Saif Ali Khan-starrer action film was shot extensively in Lucknow and Raebareli, earning a Rs 1 crore subsidy from the UP government, a nod to the state’s film-friendly incentives.