The Warrior is a 2001 film by British filmmaker Asif Kapadia. It stars Irrfan Khan as Lafcadia, a warrior in feudal Rajasthan who attempts to give up the sword. The film is in Hindi and was filmed in Rajasthan, India. The film is credited with convincing Irrfan Khan to not give up on his acting career.The Warrior is the story of spiritual transformation of a cruel warrior Lafcadia. The movie unfolds taking you from Rajasthan to the Himalayas. Kapadia started work on the 2001 film within a year of graduating from the Royal College of Art. Even though this was his first feature film, The Warrior was produced by companies from the UK, Germany and France. At the BAFTA Awards it won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film.

It was also one of the films, short-listed for UK's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film but was ultimately disqualified by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences because the film did not take place in, nor was it filmed in a language indigenous to, the United Kingdom. Britain's official Oscar selection was ultimately going to the Welsh-language film Eldra.