Bruce Lee: The Fighter

Bruce Lee: The Fighter is a 2014 Indian Telugu-language masala film directed by Sreenu Vaitla who co-wrote the film with Kona Venkat and Gopimohan. Produced by D. V. V. Danayya under the banner DVV Entertainments, the film stars Ram Charan Konidela, Rakul Preet Singh, Arun Vijay, Kriti Kharbanda, Sampath Raj and Nadhiya. The film features music composed by S. Thaman, while Manoj Paramahamsa took charge of the film's cinematography and M. R. Varma edited the film. It follows Kartik who sacrifices his studies for his sister and becomes a stuntman. Often mistaken for an undercover policeman, he helps to unearth the evil designs of drug dealers Deepak Raj and his father Jayaraj.

Srinu Vaitla narrated the script to Charan in March 2014, and planned to work on the storyline post the release of Aagadu (2014). The film was launched on 5 March 2015, and the principal photography of the film took place on 16 March, which was ended on 6 October. Filmed across Hyderabad, Spain and Bangkok, The film was shot in 110 working days with 15 working hours per day. Bruce Lee: The Fighter was released on 16 October 2015, coinciding with Dasara. Originally shot in Telugu, it was dubbed and released in Tamil and Malayalam. The film mainly received negative reviews from critics and audience with praise for the film's music, cast performances and action sequences but criticism for the writing, humour and dialogues. The film was a commercial failure. One of the sub-plots of the film where the protagonist Karthik (Ram Charan) is mistaken for a police officer by Ria (Rakul Preet Singh) was reportedly inspired from the 2006 French film The Valet. The film was remade into Bengali Bangladesh as Beporowa (2019).