List of Indian film directors
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India has many regional film centres
Cinema of India
The cinema of India consists of films produced across India, which includes the cinematic culture of Andhra Pradesh, Assam, Gujarat, Haryana, Jammu and Kashmir, Karnataka, Kerala, Maharashtra, Orissa, Punjab, Tamil Nadu, and West Bengal. Indian films came to be followed throughout South Asia and...

, such as Bollywood
Bollywood
Bollywood is the informal term popularly used for the Hindi-language film industry based in Mumbai , Maharashtra, India. The term is often incorrectly used to refer to the whole of Indian cinema; it is only a part of the total Indian film industry, which includes other production centers producing...

 (Hindi) in Mumbai
Mumbai
Mumbai , formerly known as Bombay in English, is the capital of the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the most populous city in India, and the fourth most populous city in the world, with a total metropolitan area population of approximately 20.5 million...

, Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema
Tamil cinema is the film industry based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India, dedicated to the production of films in the Tamil language. It is based in Chennai's Kodambakkam district, where several South Indian film production companies are headquartered...

 in Chennai
Chennai
Chennai , formerly known as Madras or Madarasapatinam , is the capital city of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu, located on the Coromandel Coast off the Bay of Bengal. Chennai is the fourth most populous metropolitan area and the sixth most populous city in India...

, Telugu cinema in Hyderabad, Bengali cinema
Cinema of West Bengal
The cinema of West Bengal refers to the Tollygunge-based Bengali film industry in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. The origins of the nickname Tollywood, a portmanteau of the words Tollygunge and Hollywood, dates back to 1932...

 in Kolkata
Kolkata
Kolkata , formerly known as Calcutta, is the capital of the Indian state of West Bengal. Located on the east bank of the Hooghly River, it was the commercial capital of East India...

, and Malayalam cinema in Kochi
Kochi
-Places:* Kochi, a city in the state of Kerala, India, formerly known as Cochin* Kingdom of Cochin, a former feudal city-state on Malabar Coast, India** Fort Kochi, one of the three main urban components which constitute the present day city of Kochi, Kerala, India...

. Most Indian film directors are known for their work with one regional industry, while many others are active directors of films from multiple industries.

Active in multiple languages

The following is a list of film directors who have directed films from more than one regional film industry in India. This does not include directors who work in a single industry whose films have been dubbed into other languages. - ::: FILM-MAKERS IN MULTIPLE LANGUAGES ::: ->
DIRECTOR
Film director
A film director is a person who directs the actors and film crew in filmmaking. They control a film's artistic and dramatic nathan roach, while guiding the technical crew and actors.-Responsibilities:...

Assamese
Assamese language
Assamese is the easternmost Indo-Aryan language. It is used mainly in the state of Assam in North-East India. It is also the official language of Assam. It is also spoken in parts of Arunachal Pradesh and other northeast Indian states. Nagamese, an Assamese-based Creole language is widely used in...

Bengali
Bengali language
Bengali or Bangla is an eastern Indo-Aryan language. It is native to the region of eastern South Asia known as Bengal, which comprises present day Bangladesh, the Indian state of West Bengal, and parts of the Indian states of Tripura and Assam. It is written with the Bengali script...

Bhojpuri
Bhojpuri language
Bhojpuri is a language spoken in parts of north-central and eastern India. It is spoken in the western part of state of Bihar, the northwestern part of Jharkhand, and the Purvanchal region of Uttar Pradesh , as well as adjoining parts of the Nepal Terai. Bhojpuri is also spoken in Guyana,...

English
English language
English is a West Germanic language that arose in the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England and spread into what was to become south-east Scotland under the influence of the Anglian medieval kingdom of Northumbria...

Gujarati
Gujarati language
Gujarati is an Indo-Aryan language, and part of the greater Indo-European language family. It is derived from a language called Old Gujarati which is the ancestor language of the modern Gujarati and Rajasthani languages...

Hindi Kannada
Kannada language
Kannada or , is a language spoken in India predominantly in the state of Karnataka. Kannada, whose native speakers are called Kannadigas and number roughly 50 million, is one of the 30 most spoken languages in the world...

Malayalam
Malayalam language
Malayalam , is one of the four major Dravidian languages of southern India. It is one of the 22 scheduled languages of India with official language status in the state of Kerala and the union territories of Lakshadweep and Pondicherry. It is spoken by 35.9 million people...

Marathi
Marathi language
Marathi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by the Marathi people of western and central India. It is the official language of the state of Maharashtra. There are over 68 million fluent speakers worldwide. Marathi has the fourth largest number of native speakers in India and is the fifteenth most...

Oriya
Oriya language
Oriya , officially Odia from November, 2011, is an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family. It is mainly spoken in the Indian states of Orissa and West Bengal...

Punjabi
Punjabi language
Punjabi is an Indo-Aryan language spoken by inhabitants of the historical Punjab region . For Sikhs, the Punjabi language stands as the official language in which all ceremonies take place. In Pakistan, Punjabi is the most widely spoken language...

Tamil
Tamil language
Tamil is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. It has official status in the Indian state of Tamil Nadu and in the Indian union territory of Pondicherry. Tamil is also an official language of Sri Lanka and Singapore...

Telugu
Telugu language
Telugu is a Central Dravidian language primarily spoken in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India, where it is an official language. It is also spoken in the neighbouring states of Chattisgarh, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Orissa and Tamil Nadu...

Aparna Sen
Ashwani Thakur
Ashwani Thakur
Ashwani Thakur is an Indian filmmaker. He is also a music composer. His films have earned him recognition at various national and international film festivals....

Ajay Phansekar
Basu Bhattacharya
Basu Bhattacharya
Basu Bhattacharya was a Hindi film director , most famous for his 1966 film Teesri Kasam, starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman , which won the National Film Award for Best Film in 1967; he also produced Sparsh in 1985 starring Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah, which won the Filmfare Best Movie...

Bharathan
Bharathan
Bharathan was an Indian film director, artist, lyricist, music director, sculptor, poster designer, editor and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Padmarajan, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely...

Biju Viswanath
Bimal Roy
Bimal Roy
Bimal Roy was one of the most acclaimed Indian film directors of all time. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films like Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Madhumati, Sujata, and Bandini, making him an important director of Hindi cinema...

Dinesh Kumar Gupta
Dinesh Kumar Gupta
Dinesh Kumar Gupta is an Indian filmmaker, scriptwriter, documentary producer and a Bollywood producer. Gyanu Chala Sasural, Chumbak, Chhithee Aai Hai, Chak Chak Gaon Hamar are some of his movies...

Gautham Menon
Gautham Menon
Gautham Vasudev Menon is an Indian film director and producer. Mainly working in Tamil cinema, he has also directed Hindi and Telugu films which are remakes of his Tamil films...

Gurbir Singh Grewal
R. Madhesh
Mahesh Manjrekar
Mani Ratnam
Mani Ratnam
Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...

Manish Mokshagundam
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen
Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...

Nishikant Kamat
A. R. Murugadoss
A. R. Murugadoss
A. R. Murugadoss is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:A. R. Murugadoss was born in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu. He studied B.A. in Bishop Heber College, Trichy. In the College he had the great affinity towards Tamil films and friends...

Niddhish Puuzhakkal
Niddhish Puuzhakkal
Niddhish Puuzhakkal, is an an ad filmmaker and an independent Hindi film Tamil film Malayalam film Producer, Writer, director from India. Niddhish is the Managing Director of the Media production company Da Attitude Media Pvt Ltd , and...

Yogesh Dattatraya Gosavi
Pankaj Shukla
Partho Sen-Gupta
Priyadarshan
Priyadarshan
Priyadarshan is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. In a career spanning over two decades, Priyadarshan has directed over 80 films in several Indian languages including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu...

Radha Bharadwaj
Radha Bharadwaj
Radha Bharadwaj is an Indian filmmaker, film producer and screenwriter. She moved to the United States in her late teens to study film. Bharadwaj's screenwriting and directing feature debut is Closet Land...

Ram Gopal Varma
Sanchay Jaiswal
Shaji Karun
Singeetam Srinivasa Rao
S. V. Krishna Reddy
Shyam K. Shinde
Siddique
Siddique (director)
Siddique is an Indian film director and screenwriter who mainly works in Malayalam cinema.He started his career as an assistant director to Fazil. The duo of Siddique and Lal was spotted by Fazil when he saw them performing in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. Siddique later teamed up with Lal to...

Sonali Gulati
Sridhar Rangayan
Sudhakar Sneh
T. K. Rajeev Kumar
Vijay Singh
Vijay Singh (writer and filmmaker)
Not to be confused with Vijay Singh the Fijian golfer or Vijay Singh Vijay Singh is an Indian writer and filmmaker based in France.-Biography:Vijay Singh is a writer, filmmaker and screenplay writer from India living in Paris...


Hindi film directors

  • Aashok R Kondke
  • Abbas Burmawalla
  • Abhinav Singh Kashyap
  • Abhishek Srivastava
  • Abrar Alvi
  • Aditya Chopra
    Aditya Chopra
    Aditya Chopra is an Indian film producer, screenwriter and director. He is most known for directing his only three films Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , Mohabbatein , and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi...

  • Akash Kumar
  • Amjad Khan
    Amjad Khan
    Amjad Khan was an acclaimed Indian actor and director. He worked in over 130 films in his film career spanning nearly twenty years. He enjoyed popularity for his villainous roles in Hindi films the most famous being the unforgettable Gabbar Singh in 1975 classic Sholay...

  • Amrit Sagar
  • Anand Kumar
    Anand Kumar
    Anand Kumar is an Indian mathematician and a columnist for various national and international mathematical journals and magazines. He is best known for his Super 30 programme, which he started in Patna, Bihar in 2002, and which coaches economically backward students for IIT-JEE, the entrance...

  • Anil Sharma
    Anil Sharma
    -Biography:He made his directional debut with Shradhanjali with Raakhee Gulzar. He had directed several unsuccessful and unnoticed films in the early 1980s before he started also to produce films with Elaan-E-Jung which was also directed by him and became the first production film of his to become...

  • Anurag Kashyap
    Anurag Kashyap
    Anurag Singh Kashyap is an Indian film director and screenwriter. As a director, he is known for Black Friday , a controversial and award-winning Hindi film about the 1993 Bombay bombings, followed by No Smoking , Dev D and Gulaal...

  • Arjun Sablok
    Arjun Sablok
    Arjun Sablok is an Indian film director. He is currently one of the film directors working under the Yashraj Films banner.Before his foray into film directing he made brief appearances in two of director Yash Chopra's films Vijay and Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge .He made his directorial debut with...

  • Ashutosh Gowariker
    Ashutosh Gowariker
    Ashutosh Gowariker is an Indian film director, actor, writer and producer. He is known for directing the films Lagaan , Swades , Jodhaa Akbar , What's Your Raashee and Khelein Hum Jee Jaan Sey...

  • Aziz Mirza
    Aziz Mirza
    Aziz Mirza is an Indian film director and writer.-Biography:Mirza started his career in 1985 when he joined his brother Saeed Mirza and veteran director Kundan Shah to set a new production company called Iskra....

  • Baldev Raj Chopra
    Baldev Raj Chopra
    Baldev Raj Chopra was an Indian director and producer of Bollywood movies and television serials...

  • Basu Chatterjee
    Basu Chatterjee
    Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....

  • Bhagwan Dada
    Bhagwan Dada
    Bhagwan Dada was an Indian actor and film director. He is best known for his social film Albela.-Early life:...

  • Bimal Roy
    Bimal Roy
    Bimal Roy was one of the most acclaimed Indian film directors of all time. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films like Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Madhumati, Sujata, and Bandini, making him an important director of Hindi cinema...

  • Biswojyoti Banerjee
  • Chetan Anand
    Chetan Anand
    Chetan Anand may refer to:*Chetan Anand , Indian badminton player*Chetan Anand , Bollywood personality...

  • Chandresh Patel
  • Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta
    Deepa Mehta, LLD is a Genie Award-winning Indian-born Canadian film director and screenwriter, most known for her Elements Trilogy, Fire , Earth , and Water , among which Earth was submitted by Indian government for Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film...

  • Dinesh Kumar Gupta
    Dinesh Kumar Gupta
    Dinesh Kumar Gupta is an Indian filmmaker, scriptwriter, documentary producer and a Bollywood producer. Gyanu Chala Sasural, Chumbak, Chhithee Aai Hai, Chak Chak Gaon Hamar are some of his movies...

  • Dharmesh Darshan
    Dharmesh Darshan
    Dharmesh Darshan is an Indian filmmaker, film director and writer who works in Bollywood.-Biography:He made his directional debut with Lootere , for which he also wrote the story. The film was produced by his brother Suneel Darshan, and was a hit at the box office.In 1996, he made his second film...

  • Dibakar Banerjee
    Dibakar Banerjee
    Dibakar Banerjee is an Indian film director and screenwriter, who is most known for films, Khosla Ka Ghosla , Oye Lucky! Lucky Oye! , which he also wrote, both of which won National Film Awards...

  • Faisal Saif
  • Farah Khan
  • Farhan Akhtar
    Farhan Akhtar
    Farhan Akhtar is an Indian filmmaker, script writer, actor, playback singer, lyricist, film producer in Hindi cinema and a television host.His directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi...

  • Franz Osten
  • G. P. Sippy
    G. P. Sippy
    Gopaldas Parmanand Sippy was a Bollywood movie producer and director. He was of Sindhi Hindu descent...

  • Govind Nihalani
    Govind Nihalani
    Govind Nihalani is an Indian director, cinematographer, and also a screenwriter and film producer. He has been directing Hindi films since the late seventies, and worked in the television medium.- Biography :...

  • Guru Dutt
    Guru Dutt
    Vasanth Kumar Shivashankar Padukone , popularly known as Guru Dutt, was an Indian film director, producer and actor. He is often credited with ushering in the golden era of Hindi cinema...

  • Gulzar
    Gulzar (lyricist)
    Sampooran Singh Kalra , known popularly by his pen name Gulzar , is an Indian poet, lyricist and director. He primarily writes in Hindi-Urdu and has also written in Punjabi and several dialects of Hindi such as Braj Bhasha, Khariboli, Haryanvi and Marwari.Gulzar was awarded the Padma Bhushan in...

  • Harry Baweja
  • Himanshu Rai
  • Hrishikesh Mukherjee
    Hrishikesh Mukherjee
    Hrishikesh Mukherjee ) was a famous Indian film director known for a number of films, including Satyakam, Chupke Chupke, Anupama, Anand, Abhimaan, Guddi, Gol Maal, Aashirwad, Bawarchi, and Namak Haraam.Popularly known as Hrishi-da, he directed 42 films during his career spanning over four decades,...

  • Hyder Bilgrami
  • J.P. Dutta
  • K. C. Bokadia
  • Kabir Khan
    Kabir Khan (director)
    Kabir Khan is an Pathan Indian film director, screenwriter, and camera operator of documentary and Bollywood films.-Career:A graduate of Kirori Mal College, Delhi University, Khan started his career as a cinematographer for the documentary film, Beyond the Himalayas which was directed by Gautam...

  • Kalpana Lajmi
  • Karan Johar
    Karan Johar
    Karan Johar is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and Television host. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and Yash Johar. He is one of the most successful filmmakers in Bollywood. He is most known for directing and producing some of Bollywood's highest grossing films in India and the...

  • Kavitha Lankesh
    Kavitha Lankesh
    Kavitha Lankesh is a renowned filmmaker and director in the Kannada cinema industry.Lankesh is the younger daughter of well known Kannada writer and journalist P. Lankesh. Kavitha holds a Masters in English Literature from the Bangalore University and a diploma in advertising.Kavitha started her...

  • Kumar Shahani
    Kumar Shahani
    Kumar Shahani is a noted Indian Film director, born in Larkana, Sindh , on 7 December 1940. After the Partition of India his family shifted to the city of Bombay...

  • Kunal Kohli
    Kunal Kohli
    Kunal Kohli is an Indian film director, producer and writer- Biography :Born in Mumbai,Kunal Kohli is a true Indian director. He is a "family man" as he claims on a video interview....

  • Kundan Shah
    Kundan Shah
    Kundan Shah is an Indian film director and writer.He is most known for his comedy classic Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro and his 1985-1986, TV series Nukkad with Saeed Akhtar Mirza.-Biography:...

  • Lakh Tandon
  • Lovely Singh
  • Madhur Bhandarkar
    Madhur Bhandarkar
    Madhur Bhandarkar is a National Award-winning Indian film director, script writer, and producer. He is best known for his films such as Chandni Bar , Page 3 , Traffic Signal , and Fashion...

  • Mahesh Bhatt
    Mahesh Bhatt
    Mahesh Bhatt , is a prominent Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.Bhatt's early directional career consisted of acclaimed films, such as Arth, Saaransh, Janam, Naam and Zakhm....

  • Mahesh Manjrekar
    Mahesh Manjrekar
    Mahesh Manjrekar is an Indian director, actor, writer and producer. He is credited with directing the critically acclaimed films Vaastav: The Reality , Astitva and Viruddh... Family Comes First . He has won a National Film Award and two Star Screen Awards...

  • Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...

  • Manmohan Desai
    Manmohan Desai
    Manmohan Desai was a producer and director of Indian movies.- Background :His father, Kikubhai Desai, was an Indian film producer and owner of Paramount Studios from 1931 to 1941. His productions, mainly stunt films, included Circus Queen, Golden Gang, and Sheikh Challi...

  • Manmohan Singh
    Manmohan Singh
    Manmohan Singh is the 13th and current Prime Minister of India. He is the only Prime Minister since Jawaharlal Nehru to return to power after completing a full five-year term. A Sikh, he is the first non-Hindu to occupy the office. Singh is also the 7th Prime Minister belonging to the Indian...

  • Manoj Kumar
    Manoj Kumar
    Manoj Kumar is an award-winning Indian actor and director in the Bollywood film industry. He is known for acting in and directing films with patriotic themes, and has been given the nickname "Mr Bharat"...

  • Mansoor Khan
    Mansoor Khan
    Mansoor Khan, son of film maker Nasir Hussain, made his directorial debut with Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak which launched the career of his cousin Aamir Khan. The film, a soft Romeo-Juliet inspired romantic drama, was a huge success...

  • Manish Pandey
    Manish Pandey
    Manish Krishnanand Pandey is an Indian cricketer. He is primarily a right-handed middle order batsman, although he opened the innings for his club team, the Royal Challengers Bangalore. After 2 years of playing for the Royal Challengers Bangalore, he has opted to play for Pune Warriors India in...

  • Mehboob Khan
  • Mira Nair
    Mira Nair
    Mira Nair is an Indian film director and producer based in New York. Her production company is Mirabai Films.She was educated at Delhi University and Harvard University. Her debut feature film, Salaam Bombay! , won the Golden Camera award at the Cannes Film Festival and also earned the nomination...

  • Mustan Burmawalla
  • Mudassar Aziz
    Mudassar Aziz
    -Writer:* Dulha Mil Gaya * Showbiz * Zindaggi Rocks * Dil Diya Hai -References:...

  • Mukul S. Anand
    Mukul S. Anand
    Mukul S. Anand was an Indian film director and producer. He was the nephew of veteran film scriptwriter Inder Raj Anand and cousin of actor and director Tinnu Anand.-Career:...

  • Nagesh Kukunoor
    Nagesh Kukunoor
    Nagesh Kukunoor is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is known for movies such as Hyderabad Blues , Rockford , 3 Deewarein and Iqbal .-Early life:...

  • Nandan Kudhyadi
  • Nasir Hussain
    Nasir Hussain
    Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...

  • Niddhish Puuzhakkal
    Niddhish Puuzhakkal
    Niddhish Puuzhakkal, is an an ad filmmaker and an independent Hindi film Tamil film Malayalam film Producer, Writer, director from India. Niddhish is the Managing Director of the Media production company Da Attitude Media Pvt Ltd , and...

  • Nila Madhab Panda
  • Nikhil Advani
  • Nishant Bharadwaj
  • Partho Sen-Gupta
  • Pooja Bhatt
  • Pradeep Sarkar
    Pradeep Sarkar
    Pradeep Sakar is a writer and director who works in the Bollywood industry.He began his career with Vinod Chopra Productions, the production company of acclaimed director Vidhu Vinod Chopra....

  • Prakash Jha
    Prakash Jha
    Prakash Jha is an Indian film producer-director-screenwriter, who is most known for his political and socio-political films such as Damul , Mrityudand , Gangaajal , Apaharan and multistarrer hit movie Raajneeti...

  • Prakash Mehraa
  • Priyadarshan
    Priyadarshan
    Priyadarshan is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. In a career spanning over two decades, Priyadarshan has directed over 80 films in several Indian languages including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu...

  • Pramathesh Barua|Pramathesh barua
  • Puneet Sira
    Puneet Sira
    Puneet Sira , is a well known British and Bollywood film director, producer, screenwriter and actor.Sira's directorial career consists of several feature films. Two feature films released in 2009, Kisaan for Sohail Khan Production, starring Jackie Shroff, Sohail Khan, Arbaaz Khan and Dia Mirza...

  • Piyush Sarkar Mungi
  • Raj Khosla
    Raj Khosla
    Raj Khosla was one of the top directors, producer and screenwriter in Hindi films from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was known for bringing in ‘neo-noir’ and style in Indian cinema since black & white times, and also as a "women's director" because he showcased actresses at their best. He is often...

  • Rajiv Rai
  • Rakesh Roshan
    Rakesh Roshan
    Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan Rakesh Roshan (Hindi: राकेश रोशन (born Rakesh Roshan Lal Nagrath on 6 September 1949 in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India) is a producer, director and former actor in Bollywood films who was born in a Punjabi Hindu Kayastha family...

  • Ravi Chopra
    Ravi Chopra
    Ravi Chopra is an Indian movie producer and director.Ravi has directed thus far the movies, Zameer , The Burning Train , Mazdoor , Dehleez , Baghban , and Baabul...

  • Ravikant Nagaich
    Ravikant Nagaich
    Ravikant Nagaich is an Indian film personality born at Atrauli- Uttar Pradesh, India in a Brahmin family....

  • Raj Kanwar
  • Raj Kapoor
    Raj Kapoor
    Known as Ranbir Raj Kapoor Rāj Kapūr, 14 December 1924 – 2 June 1988), also known as The Show-Man, was an Indian film actor, producer and director of Hindi cinema. He was the winner of nine Filmfare Awards, while his films Awaara and Boot Polish were nominated for the Palme d'Or at the...

  • Raj Kumar Gupta
    Raj Kumar Gupta
    Raj Kumar Gupta is an acclaimed Indian film maker and screen writer. He made his debut as director with critically acclaimed Aamir and followed it up with Rani Mukherjee and Vidya Balan starrer No One Killed Jessica based on the Jessica Lall murder case, which also received critical acclaim...

  • Rajendra Kumar
  • Rajkumar Hirani
    Rajkumar Hirani
    Rajkumar Hirani is a National Award and Filmfare Award winning Indian director, screenwriter and film editor of Hindi films, best known for the films Munna Bhai MBBS , Lage Raho Munnabhai and 3 Idiots , considered the highest-grossing Hindi film by distributor-share.-Early life and...

  • Rajkumar Santoshi
    Rajkumar Santoshi
    Rajkumar Santoshi is a Filmfare award-winning Indian film director and producer of Hindi films. He is the son of producer-director P.L. Santoshi.-Career:...

  • Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
    Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
    Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing Rang De Basanti , for which he won Best Director awards at the 2006 Filmfare Awards and National Film Awards and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film...

  • Ram Gopal Varma
    Ram Gopal Varma
    Ram Gopal Varma is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer...

  • Ramanand Sagar
  • Ramesh Sippy
    Ramesh Sippy
    Ramesh Sippy is an Indian film director, probably best-known for directing the popular and critically acclaimed film Sholay ....

  • Rohan Sippy
    Rohan Sippy
    Rohan Sippy is an Indian film director and producer who has directed three films: Kuch Naa Kaho , Bluffmaster! and Dum Maaro Dum . He is the son of Ramesh Sippy, the director of the Hindi blockbuster film Sholay, and grandson of producer G. P. Sippy...

  • Rohit Shetty
    Rohit Shetty
    Rohit Shetty is an Indian film director, presenter and cinematographer. His work as director include the hits Golmaal, Golmaal Returns, Golmaal 3 and Singham....

  • Roopesh Rai Sikand
  • Sachin Bhowmick
    Sachin Bhowmick
    Sachin Bhowmick was an Indian Hindi film writer and director. Writing was his main work and he wrote stories or screenplays for over 94 films. He was also a regular contributor to Ultorath, a Bengali magazine on cinema.-Writing highlights:...

  • Sahil Pradeep Bhai Kundhiya
  • Sagar Bellary
  • Sanjay Leela Bhansali
    Sanjay Leela Bhansali
    Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an Indian film director. He is an alumnus of the Film and Television Institute of India...

  • Shaad Ali
    Shaad Ali
    -Early life:Shaad Ali was born to Muzaffar Ali and Subhashini Ali née Sehgal, an Indian politician and member of the Communist Party of India ). He is thus the grandson of Azad Hind Fauj commander Lakshmi Sahgal...

  • Shakti Samanta
    Shakti Samanta
    Shakti Samanta was an Indian film director and producer, who founded Shakti Films in 1957, which is most known for films like Howrah Bridge, China Town, Kashmir Ki Kali, An Evening in Paris, Kati Patang and Amar Prem.He received Filmfare Awards for Best Film for Aradhana, Anuraag and Amanush,...

  • Shakti Samanta
  • Shankhadeep
  • Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor
    Shashi Kapoor , born Balbir-Raj Prithviraj Kapoor on 18 March 1938 in Calcutta , is an award-winning Indian film actor and film producer. He has also been film director and assistant director in Hindi Films. He is a member of the Kapoor family, a film dynasty in India's Bollywood cinema...

  • Shekhar Kapur
    Shekhar Kapur
    Shekhar Kapur is an Indian film director and producer. A critically acclaimed director, he rose to popularity with the movie Bandit Queen...

  • Shimit Amin
  • Shirish Kunder
    Shirish Kunder
    Shirish Kunder is an editor and film director in the Hindi Film Industry. He was born in Mangalore on May 24, 1973.- Career :He graduated as an electronics engineer from SDM College of Engineering and Technology, Dharwad, Karnataka and worked for Motorola. He later entered the film industry as an...

  • Shyam Benegal
    Shyam Benegal
    Shyam Benegal is a prolific Indian director and screenwriter. With his first four feature films Ankur , Nishant Manthan and Bhumika he created a new genre, which has now come to be called the "middle cinema" in India although he himself has expressed dislike in the term preferring his work to...

  • Siddharth Anand
    Siddharth Anand
    Siddharth Anand is an Indian film director. He is the son of film producer Bittu Anand who produced the Amitabh Bachchan hit, Shahenshah. Anand's grandfather was screenwriter Inder Raj Anand who wrote 120 films including Safar, Sangam and Ek Duje Ke Liye...

  • Sohrab Modi
    Sohrab Modi
    Sohrab Modi was an Indian Parsi stage and film actor, director and producer. His films include Khoon Ka Khoon , a version of Shakespeare's Hamlet, Sikandar, Pukar, Prithvi Vallabh, Jhansi ki Rani, Mirza Ghalib, and Nausherwan-e-dil . His films always carried a message of strong commitment to...

  • Sooraj R. Barjatya
    Sooraj R. Barjatya
    Sooraj R. Barjatya is an Indian Hindi film director. His films are produced under the Rajshri Productions banner which was first founded in 1947 by his late grandfather Tarachand Barjatya. As a director he is most known for his early hits, Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun .-Early...

  • Sridhar Rangayan
  • Subhash Ghai
    Subhash Ghai
    Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. His most notable films include Kalicharan ,Karz , Hero , Meri Jung , Karma ,Ram Lakhan ,Saudagar , Khalnayak , Pardes and Taal...

  • Sudhir Mishra
    Sudhir Mishra
    Sudhir Mishra is an Indian film director and screenwriter most renowned for directing critically acclaimed films like Hazaaron Khwaishein Aisi, Dharavi and Chameli.-Early life and education:...

  • Suneel Darshan
    Suneel Darshan
    Suneel Darshan is an Indian filmmaker, film director, producer and writer who works in the Bollywood industry.-Biography:Darshan began his career in 1987 as a film producer. He produced the film Inteqaam which starred Sunny Deol and Anil Kapoor...

  • Suparn Verma
  • Tapan Sinha
  • Tanuja Chandra
    Tanuja Chandra
    Tanuja Chandra is an Indian film director and writer. She is known for frequently directing woman-oriented films where the heroines are the main protagonists of her films.-Biography:...

  • Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...

  • Vijay Anand
  • Vikram Bhatt
    Vikram Bhatt
    Vikram Bhatt is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. He has more than 21 films to his credit. He is also the creative head of a conglomerate called ASA Productions.-Early life:...

  • Vikramaditya Motwane
  • Vishal Bhardwaj
    Vishal Bhardwaj
    Vishal Bhardwaj is an Indian film director, writer, screenwriter, music composer and playback singer.-Early life:Bhardwaj was born in Bijnor but raised in Meerut, Uttar Pradesh to Satya Bhardwaj, a homemaker, and Ram Bhardwaj, a popular poet and lyricist. His father was a government employee and...

  • Vivin Arora
  • Yash Chopra
    Yash Chopra
    Yash Raj Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, film director, screenwriter, and a highly successful Bollywood producer. Waqt, Deewar, Kabhi Kabhie, Silsila, Lamhe, Chandni, Darr, Dil To Pagal Hai, and Veer-Zaara are some of his highly popular movies...

  • Yogesh Dattatraya Gosavi
  • Yogesh Mittal
  • Shankar
    Shankar
    Shankar or Shamkar is a Sanskrit noun, and means "Beneficent" or "Giver of Bliss". It generally refers to a Hindu descriptions of one of the chief gods, Lord Shiva.It may also refer to:-People:...


Bengali film directors



  • Premankur Atorthy
    Premankur Atorthy
    Premankur Atorthy was a novelist, journalist, and film director, born in Faridpur. His father, Mahesh Chandra Atorthy, was a propagator and writer of the brahma samaj. Premankur's initial schooling started at Brahmo School, Kolkata...

  • Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
    Bappaditya Bandopadhyay
    Bappaditya Bandopadhyay or Bappaditya Banerjee is an Indian director and poet.He is the recipient of the Most Promising Director award for the year 2003, by the BFJA . His second feature film Silpantar was premiered at the Sofia International Film Festival, Bulgaria...

  • Riingo Banerjee
    Riingo Banerjee
    -Filmography:*System *Ray *Jodi Ekdin *Risk *Love *Neel Rajar Deshe *Kranti -References:...

  • Basu Bhattacharya
    Basu Bhattacharya
    Basu Bhattacharya was a Hindi film director , most famous for his 1966 film Teesri Kasam, starring Raj Kapoor and Waheeda Rehman , which won the National Film Award for Best Film in 1967; he also produced Sparsh in 1985 starring Shabana Azmi and Naseeruddin Shah, which won the Filmfare Best Movie...

  • Debaki Bose
    Debaki Bose
    Debaki Bose , also known as Debaki Kumar Bose, was a top director, writer, actor of Bengali cinema/Indian cinema. He was born on 25 November 1898 in Akalpoush, Burdwan, Bengal, British India. He died on 17 November 1971 in Calcutta, West Bengal, India. He is known for his innovative use of sound...

  • Nitin Bose
    Nitin Bose
    Nitin Bose was an Indian film director, cinematographer and screenwriter of the nation's film industry. He was born in Calcutta and died in the same city. In the 1930s and early 1940s, he worked with New Theatres, who made bilingual movies: in both Bengali and Hindi...

  • Satyen Bose (director)
    Satyen Bose (director)
    Satyen Bose was a film director from India. He has directed both Bengali and Hindi films. Among his most notable films are: Raat Aur Din, Chalti Ka Naam Gaadi, Dosti and Jagriti...

  • Arjun Chakraborty
    Arjun Chakraborty
    Arjun Chakraborty is an Indian actor and director presently based at Kolkata.He made is debut as an actor in the 1983 Hindi film Zara Si Zindagi, and his first major role was in the 1986 film Ankush starring Nana Patekar. Later he shifted mainly to the Bengali film industry starting with the 1989...

  • Kushal Chakraborty
    Kushal Chakraborty
    Kushal Chakraborty is a bengali actor and film director. At the age of six he played the main role in Satyajit Ray’s film Sonar Kella.-As Actor:*Mahasangram 2006*Tin Ekke Tin 2004*Sharbari 2003*Anamni Angana 2002*Deba 2002...

  • Haranath Chakraborty
    Haranath Chakraborty
    Haranath Chakraborty is a noted Indian Bengali film director. He is the most prominent director of the Bengali film Industry. He is assistant director of Anjan Chowdhury Group...

  • Raj Chakraborty
    Raj Chakraborty
    Raj Chakraborty is an Indian Bengali film director. A person from middle class family background. Born in Halisahar of West Bengal. His first directorial debut film Chirodini Tumi Je Amar was released in 2008...

  • Basu Chatterjee
    Basu Chatterjee
    Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....

  • Aniket Chattopadhaya
    Aniket Chattopadhaya
    Aniket Chattopadhyay is a journalist and director of the Bengali films, Chha E Chhuti [released] and Bye Bye Bangkok . He is also the News Editor of Bengali News Channel Kolkata TV.Aniket Chattopadhyay's next film is GORAY GONDOGOL-References:...

  • Amar Choudhury
    Amar Choudhury
    Amar Choudhury ) was a Bengali film Actor, Director, Editor, Writer. He directed Jamai Shashthi in 1931 produced by Madan Theatre Limited, credited as the first Bengali talkie . It was released in the same year as Alam Ara, first Indian talkie.Released on 11 April 1931 at Crown Cinem Hall in...

  • Anjan Choudhury
    Anjan Choudhury
    Anjan Choudhury was born in the year 1944, and died on 21 February 2007. He was a Bengali film director, writer, and screenplay writer. He was survived by his wife Jaysree Choudhury and two daughters and son. His two daughters, namely Chumki Choudhury and Rina Choudhury, and his elder son in law...


  • Buddhadev Dasgupta
  • Chidananda Dasgupta
    Chidananda Dasgupta
    Chidananda Das Gupta , , was a Bengali Indian filmmaker, a leading film critic, a film historian and one of the founders of Calcutta Film Society with Satyajit Ray in 1947...

  • Anjan Dutta
    Anjan Dutta
    Anjan Dutta is a popular artist of the 1990s Bengali music scene defined by anyodharar gaan . Anjan Dutta's style of music is different from the others in the sense that it has simple tunes, one that is reminiscent of western folk music. His lyrics are simple and more natural...

  • Kaushik Ganguly
    Kaushik Ganguly
    Kaushik Ganguly is an Indian director, screenwriter and actor in Bengali cinema. He is known for his works that explore sexuality like Ushnatar Janye which deals with a lesbian relationship and Arekti Premer Golpo that examines transgendered identity.-Life and career:Ganguly was born in Kolkata...

  • Ritwik Ghatak
  • Atanu Ghosh
    Atanu Ghosh
    Atanu Ghosh is a critically acclaimed Bengali film director and screenwriter-Biography:After completing post-graduation in journalism from the University of Calcutta, Atanu Ghosh started his career in 1996 as scriptwriter and director of documentary films, the first series being Pioneers of Indian...

  • Goutam Ghose
  • Rituparno Ghosh
    Rituparno Ghosh
    Rituparno Ghosh is a Bengali film director. He has won 8 National Film Awards in India and several awards at international film festivals abroad.- Early life and background :...

  • Sujit Guha
    Sujit Guha
    Sujit Guha ) is a Bengali film diector and scriptwriter.-Director:* Mon Maane Naa 2008* Sangharsha 2007* Eri Naam Prem 2006* Nayak 2006* Agnipath 2005* Deba 2002* Tak Misti Jiban 2002* Prem Pratigya 2001...

  • Goutam Halder
  • Ravi Kinagi
  • Tarun Majumdar
    Tarun Majumdar
    Tarun Majumdar is a renowned Bengali Indian film director who makes films in Bengali and is notable for his depiction of Bengali culture and society. Many of his films are literature-based...

  • Suman Mukhopadhyay
    Suman Mukhopadhyay
    Suman Mukhopadhyay or Suman Mukherjee is a prominent contemporary Indian filmmaker and a theatre director.-Career:He has done theatre productions ranging from European drama to major adaptations of Bengali masterpieces. Among which are Teesta Paarer Brittanto and Samay Asamayer Brittanto,...

  • Arin Paul
    Arin Paul
    Arin Paul is a Bengali film director, writer and researcher on film history.-Early life:Paul was born in Belur, West Bengal and raised in Shillong, Meghalaya and Calcutta. He attended St. Edmund's School, Shillong, Andrews High School, the Scottish Church Collegiate School, and Shyamaprasad...

  • Sandip Ray
    Sandip Ray
    Sandip Ray is a film director living in the city of Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the only son of the noted Bengali director Satyajit Ray, and Bijoya Ray.-Career:...


  • Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray
    Satyajit Ray was an Indian Bengali filmmaker. He is regarded as one of the greatest auteurs of 20th century cinema. Ray was born in the city of Kolkata into a Bengali family prominent in the world of arts and literature...

  • Bimal Roy
    Bimal Roy
    Bimal Roy was one of the most acclaimed Indian film directors of all time. He is particularly noted for his realistic and socialistic films like Do Bigha Zamin, Parineeta, Biraj Bahu, Madhumati, Sujata, and Bandini, making him an important director of Hindi cinema...

  • Prabhat Roy
    Prabhat Roy
    Prabhat Roy is a noted Indian Bengali film director. His first directorial debut film Pratidan was released in 1983.- Director:* Bhorer Allo 2011 * Pitri Bhumi 2007* Priyotama 2006* Ek Mutho Chhabi 2005* Manik 2005...

  • Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
    Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury
    Aniruddha Roy "Tony" Chowdhury is a Bengali film director. He is the director and producer of two films: Antaheen and Anuranan.-Early life:...

  • Swapan Saha
    Swapan Saha
    Swapan Saha is a noted Indian film director.-His speciality:With the air of somebody who has achieved the impossible Swapan Saha says, "I've just completed Sat Bhai . It took 10 days, cost Rs 11 lakh and was shot within 100 hours." For Saha, this is about par...

  • Shakti Samanta
    Shakti Samanta
    Shakti Samanta was an Indian film director and producer, who founded Shakti Films in 1957, which is most known for films like Howrah Bridge, China Town, Kashmir Ki Kali, An Evening in Paris, Kati Patang and Amar Prem.He received Filmfare Awards for Best Film for Aradhana, Anuraag and Amanush,...

  • Hiralal Sen
    Hiralal Sen
    Hiralal Sen was an Indian photographer generally considered one of India's first filmmakers. He is also credited with creating India's first advertising films and quite possibly India's first political film...

  • Mrinal Sen
    Mrinal Sen
    Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...

  • Raja Sen
    Raja Sen
    Raja Sen is an Indian film and television director, and the winner of three National Film Awards from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.-Career:...

  • Subrata Sen
    Subrata Sen
    Subrata Sen , is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian film director, writer, novelist and producer.- Early life :Subrata Sen was born in Kolkata in 1963...

  • Shakti Samanta
    Shakti Samanta
    Shakti Samanta was an Indian film director and producer, who founded Shakti Films in 1957, which is most known for films like Howrah Bridge, China Town, Kashmir Ki Kali, An Evening in Paris, Kati Patang and Amar Prem.He received Filmfare Awards for Best Film for Aradhana, Anuraag and Amanush,...

  • Aparna Sen
    Aparna Sen
    Aparna Sen is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian filmmaker, script writer, and actress. She is the winner of three National Film Awards and eight international film festival awards.-Biography:...

  • Subrata Sen
    Subrata Sen
    Subrata Sen , is a critically acclaimed Bengali Indian film director, writer, novelist and producer.- Early life :Subrata Sen was born in Kolkata in 1963...

  • Raja Sen
    Raja Sen
    Raja Sen is an Indian film and television director, and the winner of three National Film Awards from Kolkata, West Bengal, India.-Career:...

  • Tapan Sinha
    Tapan Sinha
    Tapan Sinha , was a Indian film director. He was arguably the most uncompromising filmmaker outside the orbit of Parallel Cinema.-Personal life and background:...

  • Moheen Reeyad


  • Ashok R. Kondake

Marathi Film Directors

  • Baburao Painter
    Baburao Painter
    Baburao Painter ; was an Indian film director.-Life:...

  • Babasaheb Fattelal
  • Aashok R Kondke
  • Jabbar Patel
    Jabbar Patel
    Dr. Jabbar Patel is a theatre and film director of India. His production of the play Vijay Tendulkar's play Ghashiram Kotwal, in 1973 is considered a classic in Modern Indian Theatre....

  • V. Shantaram
    V. Shantaram
    V. Shantaram is a renowned Indian filmmaker, film producer and actor. He is most known for his films like Dr...

  • Dadasaheb Phalke
    Dadasaheb Phalke
    Dhundiraj Govind Phalke, popularly known as Dadasaheb Phalke was an Indian producer-director-screenwriter, known as the father of Indian cinema...

  • Bhalji Pendharkar
  • Sai Paranjape
  • Dada Kondke
    Dada Kondke
    Krishna Kondke , popularly known as Dada Kondke, was a Marathi actor and film producer. He was one of the most renowned personalities in Marathi film industry, famous for his double entendre dialogs in movies....

  • Amol Palekar
    Amol Palekar
    Amol Palekar is an Indian actor of the 1970s and a director of Hindi and Marathi cinema.-Theater career:Palekar began in Marathi experimental theatre with Satyadev Dubey, and later started his own group, Aniket, in 1972 [citation needed]...

  • Chitra Palekar
  • Nishikant Kamat
    Nishikant Kamat
    Nishikanth Kamat, मराठी - निशिकांत कामत is an Indian filmmaker. His debut film, Dombivali Fast earned him accolades in Marathi Cinema, as it went on to become the biggest Marathi film of the year...

  • Sumitra Bhave
  • Sandeep Sawant
  • Satish Rajwade
  • Sanjay Jadhav
  • Satish Manwar
  • Yogesh Dattatraya Gosavi
  • Arun Khopkar
  • Kedar Shinde
  • Mahesh Kothare
    Mahesh Kothare
    Mahesh Kothare is an actor, director and producer of Marathi and Hindi films. He has been working with Indian cinema since when he was small child. He acted as a child artist in well known movie Raja Aur Rank, Chhota Bhai, Mere Laal, Ghar Ghar ki Kahani...

  • Sachin Kundalkar
  • achin Pilgaonkar}}
  • Vijay Kondke
  • Shashank udapurkar
  • Gajendra Ahire
  • Pitambar Kale
  • Milind Lele
  • Umesh Kulkarni
  • Mangesh Hadawale
  • Mahesh Manjrekar
    Mahesh Manjrekar
    Mahesh Manjrekar is an Indian director, actor, writer and producer. He is credited with directing the critically acclaimed films Vaastav: The Reality , Astitva and Viruddh... Family Comes First . He has won a National Film Award and two Star Screen Awards...

  • Chandrakant Kulkarni
  • Satish Ranadiwe
  • Yashwant Bhalkar
  • Bhaskar Jadhav
  • G.G.Bhosale

Kannada film directors

  • S.R. Puttanna Kanagal
  • Yograj Bhat
    Yograj Bhat
    Yograj Bhat is a prominent Kannada film director, producer, screenwriter and a lyricist. He is most predominantly known for the 2006 film Mungaru Male, which he co-wrote with Preetam Gubbi. He was also the director of the film and was one of the lyricists in the film...

  • Dinesh Baboo
    Dinesh Baboo
    Dinesh Baboo , is an Indian film director, cinematographer, producer, actor and screenwriter. He has worked in both Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema. His directorial ventures were chiefly with Kannada films...

  • Nagathihalli Chandrasekhar
  • Dr. Rajeev Menon
  • G V Iyer
  • K.V. Raju
  • Puttanna Kanagal
    Puttanna Kanagal
    Puttanna Kanagal was one of the most prominent Kannada film directors of the 1960s and the 70s. Although the majority of his films were on offbeat or taboo subjects, he endeared himself to both the critics and ordinary film goers alike. He also directed a handful Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu and...

  • Kashinath
    Kashinath
    Kashinath is an actor and a director in the Kannada Film Industry in India, generally known in the industry as a trend setter. He probably started the trend of acting, directing, music directing and the producing of films...

  • Girish Kasaravalli
    Girish Kasaravalli
    Girish Kasaravalli is a noted film director, and one of the pioneers of the Parallel Cinema in Kannada cinema, who has won the National Film Award for Best Film four times, Ghatashraddha , Tabarana Kathe , Thaayi Saheba and Dweepa...

  • Girish Karnad
    Girish Karnad
    Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...

  • B V Karanth
  • m.s.Ramesh
  • Sunil Kumar Desai
    Sunil Kumar Desai
    Sunil Kumar Desai is a Kannada film director. In most of his movies, Desai blends art and commercial cinema. He has written and directed suspense/thrillers and love stories. He has won the Karnataka state awards in the Best Screenplay & Best Dialogs categories. He has also won the Filmfare awards...

  • Indrajith Lankesh
  • S Mahendar
  • T.N.Narasimhan
  • T S Naagabharana
  • Shankar Nag
    Shankar Nag
    Shankar Nagarkatte , 9 November 1954 - 30 September 1990) popularly known as Shankar Nag was a popular actor and director of Kannada cinema. He also directed and acted in the teleserial, Malgudi days, based on celebrated novelist R.K.Narayan's short stories. Besides these, he was actively involved...

  • S Narayan
  • Prem
    Prem (Kiran)
    Prem is one of the star directors in Kannada film industry. He is basicaly from Mandya. His name was Kiran, before entering the film industry.He had directed 5 films to date.*Kariya *Excuse Me...

  • M.S Rajshekar
  • S P Rajendra singh Babu
  • A.M.R. Ramesh
  • Ratnaja
  • T N Seetharam
  • V. Ravichandran
    V. Ravichandran
    V. Ravichandran is an actor, director, producer, music director, Editor and lyricist in the Kannada film industry. He is the son of film producer N. Veeraswamy. As producer, Ravichandran continues to run his father's production house, Sri Eswari Productions...

  • Siddalingaiah
  • P Sheshadri
  • Upendra
    Upendra
    Upendra is a cine actor, director, script writer and singer. Born in a middle class family at Koteshwara near Kundapura, he belongs to Kannada speaking Kota Brahmin community. Upendra started his career off with famous director Kashinath as a writer and an assistant director...

  • S.Raaghu Kaashyap
  • Vijaya Reddy
  • Bharat Gaur
  • AMAR SARATHI

Malayalam film directors

  • John Abraham
  • G. Aravindan
    G. Aravindan
    Govindan Aravindan who was popularly known as G. Aravindan was a national award winning film director, screenwriter, musician and cartoonist from Kerala, India. He was known for his unorthodox way of film-making; he changed his cinematic forms consistently and experimented in story telling without...

  • Priyanandanan
    Priyanandanan
    Priyanandanan is a film and drama director from Kerala, India. His second movie Pulijanmam bagged the National Film Award for Best Film in 2007.-Biography:...

  • Sathyan Anthikkad
    Sathyan Anthikkad
    Sathyan Anthikad is an Indian film director and screenwriter known primarily for his family based Malayalam films.He has created many critical and commercially successful films, especially when working with Sreenivasan as the scriptwriter...

  • Siddique
    Siddique (director)
    Siddique is an Indian film director and screenwriter who mainly works in Malayalam cinema.He started his career as an assistant director to Fazil. The duo of Siddique and Lal was spotted by Fazil when he saw them performing in the Cochin Kalabhavan troupe. Siddique later teamed up with Lal to...

  • Lal
  • Priyadarsan
  • Surjith
  • Dinesh Baboo
    Dinesh Baboo
    Dinesh Baboo , is an Indian film director, cinematographer, producer, actor and screenwriter. He has worked in both Malayalam cinema and Kannada cinema. His directorial ventures were chiefly with Kannada films...

  • P.A. Backer
  • Dr.Rajeev Menon
  • Bharathan
    Bharathan
    Bharathan was an Indian film director, artist, lyricist, music director, sculptor, poster designer, editor and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Padmarajan, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely...

  • T.V. Chandran
  • Lal Jose
    Lal Jose
    Lal Jose is an Indian film director. His debut film as a director is Oru Maravathoor Kanavu . His popular films include Meesa Madhavan , Classmates and Arabikkatha .- Biography :...

  • TK Rajeev Kumar
  • Fazil
    Fazil
    A. M. Fazil is an Indian filmmaker, producer, and screenwriter of Malayalam cinema.His father wanted him to be a doctor, but in school and college, extra curricular activities engulfed him. He wrote plays, enacted them with his friends A. M. Fazil (born 1953, in Alleppey, Kerala) is an Indian...

  • Adoor Gopalakrishnan
    Adoor Gopalakrishnan
    Moutatthu "Adoor" Gopalakrishnan Unnithan is an Indian film director, script writer, and producer. Adoor Gopalakrishnan had a major role in revolutionizing Malayalam cinema and is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of India.. Adoor's first film Swayamvaram pioneered the new wave cinema...

  • K.G. George
  • Hariharan
    Hariharan (director)
    Hariharan is a Malayali film director. His movies mainly revolved around the cultural and relational aspects of a typical Kerala society. His notable works include Pazhassi Raja, Oru Vadakkan Veeragatha, Sargam, Parinayam, Amrutham Gamaya and Nakhakshathangal, which won him national...

  • Shaji Karun
  • K.P. Kumaran
  • Lohithadas
    Lohithadas
    Ambazhathil Karunakaran Lohithadas was an Indian screenwriter, director, and producer known for his extensive work in Malayalam cinema....

  • Kamal
    Kamaluddin Mohammed
    Kamaluddin Mohammed, usually credited as Kamal, is a Malayali Indian film director. His first film was Mizhineer Pookkal in 1986 and to date, he has directed more than 32 movies, among which include 2 non-malayalam movies, one each in Tamil and Hindi...

  • Balachandra Menon
    Balachandra Menon
    Balachandra Menon is an Indian film actor, director, script writer, lyricist, and producer who works in Malayalam cinema. He made some popular films in the 1980s and 1990s...

  • P.N. Menon
  • Mohan
    Mohan
    Mohan is a common male Hindu name derived from Sanskrit meaning "delightful", "charming", or "attractive".- People :* A. G. Mohan, Indian yoga teacher, yoga therapist and author* Krishna, an avatar of Vishnu in Hindu history...

     
  • K.R. Mohanan
  • M.T. Vasudevan Nair
  • P. Padmarajan
    Padmarajan
    P. Padmarajan was an Indian author, screenwriter, and film director who contributed in Malayalam language. Padmarajan was the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam, along with Bharathan, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed...

  • Lenin Rajendran
    Lenin Rajendran
    Lenin Rajendran is an Indian film director and screenwriter who has worked in Malayalam cinema.- Career :Beginning his film-making career as an assistant to director P. A. Backer, Rajendran made his directorial debut with Venal...

  • Niddhish Puuzhakkal
    Niddhish Puuzhakkal
    Niddhish Puuzhakkal, is an an ad filmmaker and an independent Hindi film Tamil film Malayalam film Producer, Writer, director from India. Niddhish is the Managing Director of the Media production company Da Attitude Media Pvt Ltd , and...

  • Rajivnath
  • I.V. Sasi
  • K.S. Sethumadhavan
  • Vijayakrishnan
    Vijayakrishnan
    Vijayakrishnan was born in 1952 in Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala. He is a well-known film critic as well as a film director who also writes stories and movie reviews. Vijayakrishnan has received eight State Awards, one National Award, and two Critics Awards, among many others...

  • Shyamaprasad
    Shyamaprasad
    Shyamaprasad is an Indian film director. Directing highly acclaimed and complex films such as Agnisakshi, Akale, Ore Kadal and Elektra, he has won several state, national and international film awards.-Biography:...

  • Sreenivasan
  • A. Vincent
    A. Vincent
    Aloysius Vincent born June 14, 1928 in Calicut, Kerala, India is an Indian cinematographer of Hindi movies and director of Malayalam movies. Since the mid 1960s he has directed some 30 movies...

  • Gautham Menon
    Gautham Menon
    Gautham Vasudev Menon is an Indian film director and producer. Mainly working in Tamil cinema, he has also directed Hindi and Telugu films which are remakes of his Tamil films...

  • Bharat Gaur

Tamil film directors

  • Priyadarshan
    Priyadarshan
    Priyadarshan is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. In a career spanning over two decades, Priyadarshan has directed over 80 films in several Indian languages including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu...

  • C.V.Sridhar
  • John Abraham
  • Jeeva
    Jeeva
    Jeeva may refer to:* Jeeva, P. Jeevanandham , Indian politician* Jeeva , Tamil Movie Director* Jeeva , Indian* Jeeva , Indian Tamil actor* Jeeva, Lollu Sabha actor...

  • Ameer Sultan
    Ameer Sultan
    Ameer Sultan ; born 5 December 1966) is an Indian film director, producer and actor, working in the Tamil film industry. He has directed three films and has gained notable critical praise for two of them, the mystery thriller Raam and the drama Paruthiveeran...

  • Agathian
  • Thangar Bachan
  • Bala
    Bala (director)
    Bala is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, working in Tamil cinema. Bala is frequently credited with having "revolutionized Tamil cinema", through his realistic, dark and disturbing films that have garnered high critical acclaim...

  • K. Balachander
    K. Balachander
    K. Balachander is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. Balachander is known for his distinct film-making style. His films analyse unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes. He has directed nearly 80 films and has worked in 100 films either as director or...

  • Bharathan
    Bharathan
    Bharathan was an Indian film director, artist, lyricist, music director, sculptor, poster designer, editor and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Padmarajan, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely...

  • Bharathiraja
    Bharathiraja
    P. Bharathiraja , is a critically acclaimed South Indian filmmaker.He displayed a story-teller's potential from an early age. Bharathiraja is known for his realistic and sensitive portrayal of village-life in his movies....

  • A. Bhimsingh
    A. Bhimsingh
    A. Bhimsingh or Bhim Singh was a film maker, producer, editor and writer . He was born on October 15, 1924. His film career started as an assistant editor with the film making duo Krishnan-Panju, in the late 1940s. His directorial debut was with Ammaiyappan , he directed several movies thereafter....

  • S.S. Vasan
  • Cheran
    Cheran (director)
    Cheran is a Tamil film director from Tamil Nadu, India. He has won the Indian National Film Award thrice for Vetri Kodi Kattu , Autograph , and Thavamai Thavamirundhu . Besides he is three-time Filmfare Award winner as well....

  • Kamal Hassan
  • S.P.Jananathan
    S.P.Jananathan
    S. P. Jananathan is a Tamil film director. His first film as director - Iyarkai won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Tamil in 2004. Prior to becoming a director, he worked as an assistant to directors like B. Lenin, Bharathan and Keyar.-Filmography:-References:...

  • Prabu Solomon
    Prabu Solomon
    -Filmography:-References:...

  • liyakath ali
  • Balu Mahendra
    Balu Mahendra
    Balanathan "Balu" Mahendran is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, and cinematographer widely regarded as part of the first in a wave of directors and screenwriters from the Chennai film industry who revitalised Tamil cinema...

  • Bharat Gaur
  • S.P.Muthuraman
  • J. Mahendran
    J. Mahendran
    J. Mahendran is a film director in Tamil film industry, who is best known for his true narration of screenplay and making.Mahendran made an immediate impact with his first film Mullum Malarum . His next film Udhiri Pookal was based on a short story written by Pudumaipithan and firmly established...

  • Gautham Menon
    Gautham Menon
    Gautham Vasudev Menon is an Indian film director and producer. Mainly working in Tamil cinema, he has also directed Hindi and Telugu films which are remakes of his Tamil films...

  • vijay raghavan
  • Rajiv Menon
    Rajiv Menon
    Rajiv Menon is an Indian cinematographer and film maker. He is known for directing critically acclaimed Tamil films like Minsaara Kanavu and Kandukondain Kandukondain.-Early Life:...

  • A. R. Murugadoss
    A. R. Murugadoss
    A. R. Murugadoss is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:A. R. Murugadoss was born in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu. He studied B.A. in Bishop Heber College, Trichy. In the College he had the great affinity towards Tamil films and friends...

  • A.P. Nagarajan
  • M. Raja
    M. Raja
    Raja Mohan is an Indian film director, primarily working in the Tamil film industry. As of 2011, he has directed seven films, all of them being a remake even velayutham. Notably all his five directorials in Tamil starred his brother Jayam Ravi and were produced by his father, editor Mohan under his...

  • T.Rajendar
  • Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam
    Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...

  • K.S. Ravikumar
  • Rudraiya
    Rudraiya
    Rudraiah Chockalingam is an Indian film director most known for directing the film, Aval Appadithan which starred Kamal Haasan, Rajinikanth and Sripriya. He graduated with a Bachelor Degree in Economics from St. Josephs College, Trichy and went on to pursue a degree in film direction from Film...

  • Santosh Sivan
    Santosh Sivan
    Santosh Sivan is an Indian cinematographer, film director, and producer who has worked in Malayalam, Kannada, Tamil, and Hindi cinema....

  • Selvaraghavan
    Selvaraghavan
    -Personal life:Selvaraghavan is the son of film director Kasthuri Raja, elder brother of actor Dhanush and has two sisters, who are both doctors. On 15 December 2006, he married actress Sonia Agarwal, with whom he had previously worked with on three films...

  • R. K. Selvamani
    R. K. Selvamani
    R. K. Selvamani is a well known Tamil director. He is known to make many movies of the police or whodunit genre.-Career:R. K. Selvamani made his debut with the thriller Pulan Visaranai which was based on an allegation by...

  • Shankar
    S. Shankar
    Shankar is an Indian film director and producer who predominantly works in Tamil cinema. He made his directional debut in Gentleman for which he was awarded the Filmfare Best Director Award...

  • Balaji Sakthivel
    Balaji Sakthivel
    Balaji Sakthivel is a prominent Tamil film director, best known for directing the 2004 film, Kaadhal.-Career:Balaji Sakthivel began as an assistant director under popular director S. Shankar. In 2002, he directed his first film, Samurai for Vikram - however despite receiving positive reviews, did...

  • Bala
    Bala (director)
    Bala is an Indian film director, screenwriter, and producer, working in Tamil cinema. Bala is frequently credited with having "revolutionized Tamil cinema", through his realistic, dark and disturbing films that have garnered high critical acclaim...

  • Rafiq Erode
  • P C Sreeram
  • m.s.shakthivel
  • S.J. Suryaah
  • Vishnu Vardhan
    Vishnuvardhan (director)
    Vishnuvardhan Kulasekaran, often credited simply as Vishnuvardhan, is an Indian film director. A one-time associate of Santosh Sivan he made his directorial debut in 2003 with Kurumbu, which did not fare well at the box office...

  • Niddhish Puuzhakkal
    Niddhish Puuzhakkal
    Niddhish Puuzhakkal, is an an ad filmmaker and an independent Hindi film Tamil film Malayalam film Producer, Writer, director from India. Niddhish is the Managing Director of the Media production company Da Attitude Media Pvt Ltd , and...

  • Vikraman
    Vikraman
    Vikraman is a reputed Tamil filmmaker. He is also one of the most successful Tamil directors.-Early career:Vikraman made his debut with the movie Pudhu Vasantham, a story of four unemployed friends who are musical experts. This movie released in 1989 was successful. Its hero Murali went on to...

  • Vasanthabalan
    Vasanthabalan
    -Career:The director began his career with Album, which failed at the box-office. His second film, produced by the prestigious S Pictures company, Veyil became a blockbuster and was shown as the Indian representative at Cannes in 2007...

  • Bhagyaraj
    Bhagyaraj
    K. Bhagyaraj is a Tamil film director, actor, writer and producer. He has directed and produced several Tamil films, along with a few Telugu and Hindi films. He is well known for his mastery in screenplay. He has won a Filmfare Best Actor Award for Mundhanai Mudichu, a film he wrote, directed and...

  • Neelan.K.Sekar
    Neelan.K.Sekar
    Neelan.K.Sekar is a Tamil film director. He worked with director Bhagyaraj and Vishnuvardhan.-Filmography:* Ali Baba * Arinthum Ariyamalum...

  • N.S.Maniam
  • T. P. Arunachalam
  • R. Madhesh
  • Sasikumar
    M. Sasikumar
    M. Sasikumar is a Tamil film director, actor and producer. He is best known in the Tamil film industry for his debut film Subramaniapuram...

  • shivam
  • suseenthiran
  • k.v.anand

Telugu film directors

  • Aashok R Kondke
  • Adurthi Subba Rao
    Adurthi Subba Rao
    Adurthi Subba Rao is a prominent old-time director of Telugu & Hindi Films. He also produced few films.-Early life:...

  • Priyadarshan
    Priyadarshan
    Priyadarshan is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter. In a career spanning over two decades, Priyadarshan has directed over 80 films in several Indian languages including Malayalam, Hindi, Tamil, and Telugu...

  • R. Narayana Murthy
    R. Narayana Murthy
    R. Narayana Murthy is a film director and producer of Tollywood films in India. He is known for his ‘red’ or communist revolutionary films that expose the exploitation of society's lower strata....

  • M.A.Chowdary
  • Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao
  • V.Srikanth
  • Bapu
    Bapu (artist)
    Bapu is an Indian film director, known for his works in Telugu cinema.He is a music artist, painter, cartoonist, and designer...

  • Relangi Narasimha Rao
  • K. Vijaya Bhaskar
    K. Vijaya Bhaskar
    K. Vijaya Bhaskar is a film director in the Telugu film industry, Most of the films he directed were blockbusters.- Filmography as Director :* Prema Kavali * Bhale Dongalu * Classmates * Jai Chiranjeeva...

  • Bhaskar
  • Y.V.S Chowdary
  • Prabhu Deva
  • B. Gopal
  • Gunasekhar
    Gunasekhar
    Gunasekhar is a Telugu film director. He directed the films Choodalani Vundi, Okkadu, Arjun, Sainikudu. In the South Indian Filmfare Awards, Gunasekhar won Filmfare Best Director Award for Okkadu and also he won several nandhi awards including national award for best children's film director for...

  • Jandhyala
  • Puri Jagannadh
    Puri Jagannadh
    Puri Jagannath , born 28 September 1966, is a prominent Tollywood film director and producer. He is also a two-time Nandi Award recipient.- Director :- Writer :* Bumper Offer - story, dialogues...

  • A. Karunakaran
    A. Karunakaran
    A. Karunakaran is a Telugu film director.-Background:Before entering Telugu Film Industry, his parents forced him to join polytechnics. After finishing polytechnics in 1989, he went to Madras. He became an assistant director to a few successful directors like Shankar.-Career:Karunakaran's first...

  • Devadas Kanakala
  • Sekhar Kammula
    Sekhar Kammula
    Sekhar Kammula is an award-winning Indian Film director, writer and producer from Telugu cinema.-Early life:Sekhar was schooled at St. Patrick's High School, Secunderabad. He completed his intermediate studies from St...

  • S. V. Krishna Reddy
    S. V. Krishna Reddy
    S.V. Krishna Reddy is an Indian film director. He has been a successful and an influential director since a decade. His contribution to the Telugu Film Industry is a landmark; to his credits he adds 38 films till date which were not only hits at box office, but also his name was carved in the...

  • Raghava Lawrence
  • A. R. Murugadoss
    A. R. Murugadoss
    A. R. Murugadoss is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter.-Early life:A. R. Murugadoss was born in Kallakurichi, Tamil Nadu. He studied B.A. in Bishop Heber College, Trichy. In the College he had the great affinity towards Tamil films and friends...

  • Neelakanta
  • L.V. Prasad
  • Raviraja Pinisetti
  • C. Pullaiah
    C. Pullaiah
    Chittajallu Pullaiah popularly known as C. Pullaiah is an eminent Telugu film director. He is one among those film personalities associated with the Telugu movie right from its silent movie days. His son C. S...

  • P. Pullaiah
  • Vedantam Raghavaiah
    Vedantam Raghavaiah
    Vedantam Raghavaiah was veteran Telugu film actor, choreographer, director and producer.-Devadasu:He was the director and producer of Telugu film Devdas with music by C.R. Subburaman. The hero of Raghavaiah's Devadas, Akkineni Nageshwara Rao, became an overnight star...

  • S.S. Rajamouli
  • Kodi Ramakrishna
  • B. S. Ranga
    B. S. Ranga
    Bindinganavale Srinivas Iyengar Ranga was born in Magadi Village in the erstwhile princely state of Mysore . After an art-enriched childhood wherein he interacted with many stage personalities, B.S.Ranga entered the field of photography...

  • B.A. Subba Rao
  • Dasari Narayana Rao
    Dasari Narayana Rao
    Dr. Dasari Narayana Rao B.A. is a politician, film director, and film producer. Narayana Rao directed about 150 films, produced 53 films and worked in more than 250 films as a dialogue writer and as a lyricist.Beside graduating with a BA degree, he used to take part in scores of drama competitions...

  • K. Raghavendra Rao
    K. Raghavendra Rao
    Kovelamudi Raghavendra Rao shortly K. Raghavendra is a renowned director. He is one of the most commercially successful directors of Telugu cinema, and many believe that his contribution has been instrumental to the success of Telugu cinema. As of 2006, Raghavendra Rao has directed 103 films...

  • K.S. Prakasa Rao
  • Singitam Srinivasa Rao
  • Katta Subba Rao
    Katta Subba Rao
    Katta Subba Rao is a renowned film director known for directing family-oriented and social movies in the Telugu film industry. Almost all the movies which he directed during his career depict the Indian family relationships with respect to issues and romance between naughty husbands and wives,...

  • Bhimaneni Srinivas Rao
  • A. Kodandarami Reddy
    A. Kodandarami Reddy
    A. Kodandarami Reddy , is a Telugu film director who made successful films in 1980s and early 90s.His association with Chiranjeevi created blockbusters like Khaidi, Pasivadi Pranam, Athaku Yamudu Ammayiki Mogudu, Nyayam Kavali, Abhilasha, Goonda, Challenge , Donga, Rakshasudu, Jebu Donga,...

  • T. Prakasa Rao
  • E.V.V. Satyanarayana
  • Gankidi Raghavender Reddy
  • Trivikram Srinivas
    Trivikram Srinivas
    Trivikram Srinivas Sarma is a dialogue writer turned screenwriter and film director in Telugu Cinema.-Background:...

  • Sukumar
    Sukumar
    Sukumar Bandreddi , better known by his first name, is a Tollywood film director and screenwriter. He worked as assistant director for the films Kshemanga Velli Labhanga Randi and Dil and made his directorial debut with Arya.- Background :...

  • Chanakya Tapi
  • Krishna Vamsi
    Krishna Vamsi
    Krishna Vamsi Pasupuleti is an award-winning Indian film director in Telugu Cinema.-Early life and background:...

  • Ram Gopal Varma
    Ram Gopal Varma
    Ram Gopal Varma is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer...

  • Srinu Vytla
  • V.V. Vinayak
  • Veera Sanker
  • G.C.Sekhar
    G.C.Sekhar
    G.C. Sekhar is a well known Telugu and Tamil film director between the 1970s and 1980s. He directed movies with prominent actors, including Krishna, Suman, Mohan Babu, Krishnam Raju and others.-Director:* Jeevana Teeralu in Telugu in 1977...

  • Vamsy
  • Dr. K. Vishwanath
    Kasinadhuni Viswanath
    Kasinadhuni Vishwanath is an Indian film director and actor from Telugu Cinema. He is a multiple winner of National Film Award and Nandi Award...

  • Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
    Chandra Sekhar Yeleti
    Chandra Sekhar Yeleti is a Tollywood film director. He directed 4 films in his career. The movies Aithe and Anukokunda Oka Roju went on to be big hits. He does not like directing art films. He prefers commercial films. He got married on 19 May 2006...

  • D. Yoganand
  • Boyapaati sreenu
  • Allani Sridhar
  • T. Anil Kishore
  • jaffar shaik
  • srinivas reddy
  • Anand Ranga
  • vijay raghavan
  • Deva Katta
  • Samudhra
  • Gopichand Malineni
  • Mehar Ramesh
  • Surender Reddy
  • Chandra Siddardha
  • Vishnu vardhan
  • P.Vasu
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