Bollywood · Movies like it
These ten titles are the packet's closest matches for viewers drawn to Dragon's shifting persona, romantic fallout, and comic tension around a carefully built facade.
Starting from Dragon (2025) · Film
If Dragon worked for you because Raghavan moves from school topper to self-styled bad boy, becomes a heartbroken dropout, and then cons his way into a finance career, the recommendations below offer a practical next step without pretending to be remakes. Dragon is a 2025 film directed and written by Ashwath Marimuthu, with Pradeep Ranganathan playing D. Raghavan 'Dragon'.
The supplied research identifies ten recent titles through two broad connections: release proximity and shared genre. That makes this a deliberately wider recommendation list rather than a set of claimed plot twins. Each entry explains what the packet supports and flags the important difference: these are self-contained films with their own voices, not confirmed repeats of Raghavan's transformation or his increasingly difficult facade.
Begin with the titles below if you want to stay near the broad lane that the research packet associates with Dragon. The evidence is strongest at the level of shared genre and release proximity, so the useful question is not whether a film reproduces every beat of Raghavan's story, but whether it gives you another recent, self-contained entry point with a different voice.
Dragon's supplied synopsis gives the article a specific anchor: a topper adopts a bad-boy identity, suffers a heartbreak and dropout, enters finance through deception, and struggles to sustain the resulting image. The candidate records do not provide comparable plot summaries, tone labels, music details, or social-context evidence for the other films. For that reason, the recommendations stay close to the packet's stated dimensions instead of inventing character, performance, or cultural connections.
The strongest reason to start with this list is its honesty about the match. Dragon's appeal, as documented here, comes from the collision of romance, reinvention, ambition, and deception around Raghavan. The ten alternatives are recent shared-genre choices with their own voices, so the right expectation is not a replica but a broader set of films to explore from the same recommendation lane.
These picks update as the catalogue and streaming options change. Viewing options are shown for India.
Film · 2023 · 159 min · Hindi
WhyDunki matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through shared themes (comedy, humor) and overlapping genre ground (comedy, drama).
ButIt has its own voice, but keeps a similar overall feeling.
Film · 2025 · 156 min · Hindi
WhyJolly LLB 3 matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through shared themes (comedy, humor) and overlapping genre ground (comedy, drama).
ButIt has its own voice, but keeps a similar overall feeling.
Film · 2026 · 141 min · Tamil
WhyWith Love matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through overlapping genre ground (comedy, romance) and shared themes (comedy, humor).
ButExpect it to differ where theme leans toward romance, relationship.
Film · 2024 · 118 min · Malayalam
WhyAll We Imagine as Light matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through overlapping genre ground (drama, romance) and shared themes (drama, emotional).
ButExpect it to differ where theme leans toward romance, relationship.
Film · 2026 · 127 min · Telugu
WhyVishnu Vinyasam matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through overlapping genre ground (comedy, romance) and shared themes (comedy, humor).
ButExpect it to differ where theme leans toward romance, relationship.
Film · 2026 · 144 min · Tamil
WhyThaai Kizhavi matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through shared themes (comedy, humor) and overlapping genre ground (comedy, drama).
ButIt has its own voice, but keeps a similar overall feeling.
No confirmed streaming offer right now.
Full details →Film · 2026 · 116 min · Malayalam
WhySpa matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through shared themes (comedy, humor) and overlapping genre ground (comedy, drama).
ButIt has its own voice, but keeps a similar overall feeling.
No confirmed streaming offer right now.
Full details →Film · 1966 · 145 min · Telugu
WhyNavaratri matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through overlapping genre ground (comedy, drama) and shared themes (comedy, humor).
ButIt has its own voice, but keeps a similar overall feeling.
No confirmed streaming offer right now.
Full details →Film · 2023 · 174 min · Kannada
WhyOrchestra Mysuru matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through shared themes (comedy, humor) and overlapping genre ground (comedy, drama).
ButExpect it to differ where genre leans toward music.
No confirmed streaming offer right now.
Full details →Film · 2023 · 123 min · Malayalam
WhyPranaya Vilasam matches Dragon in the ways that matter most through overlapping genre ground (comedy, romance) and shared themes (comedy, humor).
ButExpect it to differ where theme leans toward romance, relationship.
No confirmed streaming offer right now.
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