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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{EngvarB|date=September 2014}}<br /> {{Use dmy dates|date=September 2014}}<br /> {{Multiple image<br /> | align = right<br /> | direction = vertical<br /> | width = <br /> | footer = <br /> | image1 = Guru Dutt dans Mr and Mrs 55 (1955).jpg<br /> | width1 = 150<br /> | caption1 = [[Guru Dutt]] (Hindi)<br /> | image2 = Satyajit Ray in New York.jpg<br /> | width2 = 150<br /> | caption2 = [[Satyajit Ray]] (Bengali)<br /> | image3 = Raj Kapoor In Aah (1953).png<br /> | width3 = 150<br /> | caption3 = [[Raj Kapoor]] (Hindi)<br /> | total_width = <br /> | alt1 = <br /> }}<br /> [[Cinema of India|India has many regional film centres]], such as [[Bollywood]] (Hindi) in [[Mumbai]], [[Cinema of Andhra Pradesh|Telugu cinema]] (Tollywood) in [[Hyderabad (India)|Hyderabad]], [[Marathi cinema]] in [[Pune]], [[Tamil cinema]] in [[Chennai]], [[Cinema of Kerala|Malayalam cinema]] in [[Kochi]], [[Kannada cinema]] in [[Bangalore]], [[Cinema of Orissa|Odia Cinema]] in [[Bhubaneswar]], [[Assamese cinema]] in [[Guwahati]], [[Punjabi cinema]] in [[Mohali]] and [[Cinema of West Bengal|Bengali cinema]] in [[Kolkata]] . Most &#039;&#039;&#039;Indian film directors&#039;&#039;&#039; are known for their work with one regional industry, while many others are active directors of films from multiple industries.<br /> &lt;!--THIS MUST BE INCLUDED IN OTHER APPROPRIATE LISTS. THIS ARTICLE SHOULDN&#039;T BE A LIST THAT CATEGORIZES DIRECTORS BY GENRES.--&gt;<br /> <br /> ==Directors of parallel or independent cinema==<br /> [[Parallel Cinema]] is otherwise known as &quot;[[Art films]]&quot; cinema, and is known for its serious and realistic films with real-life situations. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian government financed a number of such films, on Indian themes. Many of the directors were graduates of the [[Film and Television Institute of India]], Pune. [[Ritwik Ghatak]] was a professor at the institute and a well-known director in his own right. The best-known Indian &quot;neo-realist&quot; is [[Satyajit Ray]].<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[AR Murugadoss]]<br /> * [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]<br /> * [[Ajita Suchitra Veera]]<br /> *[https://m.imdb.com/name/nm12747737/?ref_=nm_mv Aloy Deb Barma]<br /> * [[Amit Dutta]]<br /> * [[Anurag Kashyap]]<br /> * [[Aparna Sen]]<br /> * [[G Aravindan]]<br /> * [[Bala (director)|Bala]]<br /> * [[K. Balachander]]<br /> * [[Biju Viswanath]]<br /> * [[Bimal Roy]]<br /> * [[Budhdhadeb Dasgupta]]<br /> * [[T. V. Chandran]]<br /> * [[Dadasaheb Phalke]]<br /> * [[Dasari Narayana Rao]]<br /> * [[Dedipya Joshii]]<br /> * [[Dibakar Banerjee]]<br /> * [[Ganesh Acharya]]<br /> * [[Girish Kasaravalli]]<br /> *[[Gautam Bora|Goutam Bora]]<br /> * [[Govind Nihalani]]<br /> * [[Harpreet Sandhu (Actor)|Harpreet Sandhu]]<br /> * [[Jabbar Patel]]<br /> * [[Jahnu Barua]]<br /> * [[Joe Rajan]]<br /> * [[John Abraham (director)]]<br /> * [[Kalpana Lajmi]]<br /> * [[Kundan Shah]]<br /> * [[Mahesh Narayanan]]<br /> * [[Mani Ratnam]]<br /> * [[Mira Nair]]<br /> * [[Mrinal Sen]]<br /> * [[Onir]]<br /> * [[Partho Sen-Gupta]]<br /> * [[Piyush Jha]]<br /> * [[Piyush Sarkar Mungi]]<br /> * [[Prakash Jha]]<br /> * [[Praveen Morchhale]]<br /> * [[Prince Joy]]<br /> * [[Puttanna Kanagal]]<br /> * [[L. V. Prasad]]<br /> * [[Puneet Sira]]<br /> * [[T. K. Rajeev Kumar]]<br /> * [[K. Raghavendra Rao]]<br /> * [[Ram Gopal Varma]]<br /> * [[Raju Kafley]]<br /> * [[B. N. Reddy]]<br /> * [[Rahul Dholakia]]<br /> * [[Rituparno Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Ritwik Ghatak]]<br /> * [[S. Shankar]]<br /> * [[Saeed Akhtar Mirza]]<br /> * [[Sahil Chaudhary]]<br /> * [[Sathish Kalathil]]<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]]<br /> * [[Satyaprakash Upadhyay]]<br /> * [[Shaji N. Karun]]<br /> * [[V. Shantaram]]<br /> * [[Shyam Benegal]]<br /> * [[Sonali Gulati]]<br /> * [[Sridhar Rangayan]]<br /> * [[Sudhir Mishra]]<br /> * [[Suresh Joachim]]<br /> * [[Tapan Sinha]]<br /> * [[Tigmanshu Dhulia]]<br /> * [[Upendra (actor)|Upendra]]<br /> * [[Vijayakrishnan]]<br /> * [[Vierendrra Lalit]]<br /> * [[Vijay Singh (writer and filmmaker)|Vijay Singh]]<br /> * [[K. Viswanath]]<br /> * [[Raju Kafley]]<br /> * [[Zoya Akhtar]]<br /> * [[Karan Johar|Karon Johar]] <br /> * [[Sai Prakash]]<br /> <br /> ==Active in multiple languages==<br /> 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.<br /> <br /> {| class=&quot;wikitable&quot;<br /> |-<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;DIRECTOR&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Assamese language|Assamese]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Bengali language|Bengali]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Bhojpuri language|Bhojpuri]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[English language|English]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Gujarati language|Gujarati]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Hindi language|Hindi]]&lt;/small&gt; <br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Kannada language|Kannada]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Malayalam language|Malayalam]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Marathi language|Marathi]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Maithili language|Maithili]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Odia language|Odia]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Punjabi language|Punjabi]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Tamil language|Tamil]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> ! &lt;small&gt;[[Telugu language|Telugu]]&lt;/small&gt;<br /> |-<br /> |[[Ram Gopal Varma]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |-<br /> | [[K. Raghavendra Rao]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |{{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |-<br /> | [[Dasari Narayana Rao]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |{{yes}}<br /> | <br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |-<br /> | [[S. S. Rajamouli]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |-<br /> | [[Puri Jagannadh]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |{{yes}} <br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[S. Shankar]]<br /> | <br /> |<br /> | <br /> |<br /> |<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |-<br /> | [[Bharathan]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | <br /> | <br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Basu Bhattacharya]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Gautham Menon]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Girish Karnad]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |{{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Girish Kasaravalli]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{Yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Mani Ratnam]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |-<br /> | [[AR Murugadoss]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |-<br /> | [[Puttanna Kanagal]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Satish Rajwade]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{Yes}}<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |-<br /> | [[Sachin Kundalkar]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{Yes}}<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |-<br /> | [[Prasanta Nanda]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{Yes}}<br /> | <br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | <br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |-<br /> | [[Hara Patnaik]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{Yes}}<br /> | <br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | <br /> | <br /> |<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> |[[Sunil Kumar Desai]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |-<br /> | [[Mahesh Manjrekar]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{Yes}}<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> |-<br /> | [[Upendra (actor)|Upendra]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> | <br /> | <br /> | {{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |-<br /> |-<br /> |[[Anup Bhandari]]<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |{{yes}}<br /> |}<br /> <br /> ==Bengali film directors==<br /> :{{Main|:Category:Bengali film directors}}<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[Hiralal Sen]]<br /> * [[Dhirendranath Gangopadhyay]] (D. G.)<br /> * [[Sisir Bhaduri]]<br /> * [[J. J. Madan]]<br /> * [[Madhu Bose]]<br /> * [[Niranjan Pal]]<br /> * [[Premankur Atorthy]]<br /> * [[Prafulla Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Bimal Roy]]<br /> * [[Pramathesh Barua]]<br /> * [[Satyajit Ray]]<br /> * [[Ritwik Ghatak]]<br /> * [[Satyen Bose]]<br /> * [[Mrinal Sen]]<br /> * [[Hiren Nag]]<br /> * [[Nitin Bose]]<br /> * [[Tulsi Lahiri]]<br /> * [[Hemen Gupta]]<br /> * [[Agradoot]]<br /> * [[Naresh Mitra]]<br /> * [[Yatrik]]<br /> * [[Chitta Bose]]<br /> * [[Niren Lahiri]]<br /> * [[Ajoy Kar]]<br /> * [[Satyen Bose]]<br /> * [[Subodh Mitra]]<br /> * [[Amar Choudhury]]<br /> * [[Haridas Bhattacharya]]<br /> * [[Tapan Sinha]]<br /> * [[Prafulla Chakraborty]] <br /> * [[Asit Sen (director)|Asit Sen]]<br /> * [[Manju Dey]]<br /> * [[Salil Dutta]]<br /> * [[Alamgir Kabir (film maker)|Alamgir Kabir]] <br /> * [[Buddhadev Dasgupta]]<br /> * [[Tarun Majumdar]]<br /> * [[Utpal Dutta]]<br /> * [[Dilip Ray]]<br /> * [[Goutam Ghose]]<br /> * [[Basu Chatterjee]]<br /> * [[Rituparno Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Aparna Sen]]<br /> * [[Chidananda Dasgupta]]<br /> * [[Prabhat Roy]]<br /> * [[Anjan Choudhury]]<br /> * [[Shakti Samanta]]<br /> * [[Saroj Dey]]<br /> * [[Ashoke Viswanathan]]<br /> * [[Raja Sen]]<br /> * [[Sandip Ray]]<br /> * [[Sukhen Das]]<br /> * [[Bratya Basu]]<br /> * [[Kaushik Ganguly]]<br /> * [[Bappaditya Bandopadhyay]]<br /> * [[Arjun Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Suman Mukhopadhyay]]<br /> * [[Kushal Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Srijit Mukherji]]<br /> * [[Basu Bhattacharya]]<br /> * [[Sekhar Das]]<br /> * [[Atanu Ghosh]]<br /> * [[Anjan Dutt]]<br /> * [[Goutam Halder]]<br /> * [[Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury]]<br /> * [[Abhijit Guha (director)|Abhijit Guha]]<br /> * [[Sudeshna Roy]]<br /> * [[Kamaleshwar Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Gaurav Pandey]]<br /> * [[Aditya Vikram Sengupta]]<br /> * [[Haranath Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Indrani Pal-Chaudhuri]]<br /> * [[Sujit Mondal]]<br /> * [[Raj Chakraborty]]<br /> * [[Swapan Saha]]<br /> * [[Nandita Roy]]<br /> * [[Shiboprosad Mukherjee]] <br /> * [[Sujit Guha]]<br /> * [[Qaushiq Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Aniket Chattopadhaya]]<br /> * [[Tathagata Mukherjee]]<br /> * [[Ravi Kinagi]]<br /> * [[Narugopal Mandal]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Punjabi film directors==<br /> * [[Smeep Kang]]<br /> * [[Rana Ranbir]]<br /> <br /> ==Gujrati film directors==<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> *[[Abhishek Jain]] <br /> *[[Chandulal Shah]]<br /> *[[Dhwani Gautam]]<br /> *[[Govindbhai Patel]]<br /> *[[Ketan Mehta]]<br /> *[[Mulraj Rajda]]<br /> *[[Nanubhai Vakil]]<br /> *[[Shantilal Soni]]<br /> *[[Sooni Taraporevala]]<br /> *[[Zanane Rajsingh]]<br /> <br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Kannada film directors==<br /> :{{Main|:Category:Kannada film directors}}<br /> *[[Puttanna Kanagal]]<br /> *[[Upendra (actor)|Upendra]]<br /> *[[Kichcha Sudeepa]]<br /> *[[Yograj Bhat]]<br /> *[[Duniya Soori]]<br /> *[[Anup Bhandari]]<br /> *[[Pawan Kumar (director)|Pawan Kumar]]<br /> *[[Rakshit Shetty]]<br /> *[[Dinesh Baboo]]<br /> *[[Nagathihalli Chandrasekhar]]<br /> *[[B Ramamurthy]]<br /> *[[Dorai-Bhagavan]]<br /> *[[G. V. Iyer]]<br /> *[[B. S. Ranga]]<br /> *[[V. Somashekhar]]<br /> *[[Kashinath (actor)|Kashinath]]<br /> *[[Girish Kasaravalli]]<br /> *[[Girish Karnad]]<br /> *[[S. V. Rajendra Singh Babu]]<br /> *[[D. Rajendra Babu]]<br /> *[[Sunil Kumar Desai]]<br /> *[[Om Prakash Rao]]<br /> *[[Baraguru Ramachandrappa]]<br /> *[[Shankar Nag]]<br /> *[[Prem (Kiran)|Prem]]<br /> *[[V. Ravichandran]]<br /> *[[Preetham Gubbi]]<br /> *[[R. Chandru]]<br /> *[[A. M. R. Ramesh]]<br /> *[[S. Narayan]]<br /> *[[Dayal Padmanabhan]]<br /> *[[Abhaya Simha]]<br /> *[[P. Vasu]]<br /> *[[Rishab Shetty]]<br /> *[[Mohan Shankar]]<br /> *[[Shashank (director)|Shashank]]<br /> *[[Agni Shridhar]]<br /> *[[Jayatheertha]]<br /> *[[Vinay Bharadwaj]]<br /> *[[Prashanth Neel]]<br /> *[[T. S. Nagabharana]]<br /> *[[H. R. Bhargava]]<br /> <br /> ==Malayalam film directors==<br /> :{{Main|:Category:Malayalam film directors}}<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[Renjith|Ranjith]]<br /> * [[John Abraham (director)|John Abraham]]<br /> * [[Aashiq Abu]]<br /> * [[G. Aravindan]]<br /> * [[Sathish Kalathil]]<br /> * [[Sathyan Anthikkad]]<br /> * [[Dinesh Baboo]]<br /> * [[Priyadarshan]]<br /> * [[P. A. Backer]]<br /> * [[Bharathan]]<br /> * [[T. V. Chandran]]<br /> * [[Lal Jose]]<br /> * [[T. K. Rajeev Kumar]]<br /> * [[Fazil (director)|Fazil]]<br /> * [[Adoor Gopalakrishnan]]<br /> * [[K. G. George]]<br /> * [[Hariharan (director)|Hariharan]]<br /> * [[Kamaluddin Mohammed|Kamal]]<br /> * [[Shaji Karun]]<br /> * [[K. P. Kumaran]]<br /> * [[Lal (director)|Lal]]<br /> * [[Lohithadas]]<br /> * [[Joy Mathew]]<br /> * [[Anjali Menon]]<br /> * [[Balachandra Menon]]<br /> * [[Gautham Menon]]<br /> * [[P. N. Menon (director)|P.N. Menon]]<br /> * [[Mohan (director)|Mohan]]<br /> * [[K. R. Mohanan]]<br /> * [[Mahesh Narayanan]]<br /> * [[M. T. Vasudevan Nair]]<br /> * [[Amal Neerad]]<br /> * [[Padmarajan|P. Padmarajan]]<br /> * [[Rajesh Pillai]]<br /> * [[Dileesh Pothan]]<br /> * [[Priyadarsan]]<br /> * [[Alphonse Putharen]]<br /> * [[Lenin Rajendran]]<br /> * [[Anwar Rasheed]]<br /> * [[Rajeev Ravi]]<br /> * [[Sankar director|V.R. Sankar]]<br /> * [[I. V. Sasi]]<br /> * [[K. S. Sethumadhavan]]<br /> * [[Shyamaprasad]]<br /> * [[Siddique (director)|Siddique]]<br /> * [[Sreenivasan]]<br /> * [[Sameer Thahir]]<br /> * [[Vijayakrishnan]]<br /> * [[A. Vincent]]<br /> * [[Rajasenan]]<br /> * [[Shaji Kailas]]<br /> * [[K. Madhu]]<br /> * [[Joshiy]]<br /> * [[Vineeth Sreenivasan]]<br /> * [[RK DreamWest]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Marathi film directors==<br /> :{{Main|:Category:Marathi film directors}}<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[Satish Motling]]<br /> * [[Baburao Painter]]<br /> * [[Jabbar Patel]]<br /> * [[V. Shantaram]]<br /> * [[Dadasaheb Phalke]]<br /> * [[Dada Kondke]]<br /> * [[Amol Palekar]]<br /> * [[N. S. Vaidya]]<br /> * [[Nishikant Kamat]]<br /> * [[Mahesh Kothare]]<br /> * [[Sachin Pilgaonkar]]<br /> * [[Mahesh Manjrekar]]<br /> * [[Gajendra Ahire]]<br /> * [[Pralhad Keshav Atre]]<br /> * [[Ravi Jadhav]]<br /> * [[P. L. Deshpande]]<br /> * [[Chandrakant Kulkarni]]<br /> * [[Sachin Kundalkar]]<br /> * [[Paresh Mokashi]]<br /> * [[Bhalji Pendharkar]]<br /> * [[Raja Paranjape]]<br /> * [[Ram Gabale]]<br /> * [[Ramesh Deo]]<br /> * [[Satish Rajwade]]<br /> * [[Sayaji Shinde]]<br /> * [[Sanjay Surkar]]<br /> * [[Suryakant Mandhare]]<br /> * [[Smita Talwalkar]]<br /> * [[Mrinal Kulkarni]]<br /> * [[Dadasaheb Torne]]<br /> * [[Vijay Gokhale]]<br /> * [[Vishnupant Damle]]<br /> * [[Sujay Dahake]]<br /> * [[Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni]]<br /> * [[Avdhoot Gupte]]<br /> * [[Nitin Chandrakant Desai]]<br /> * [[Ashutosh Gowarikar]]<br /> * [[Amol Palekar]]<br /> * [[Madhur Bhandarkar]]<br /> * [[Amol Gupte]]<br /> * [[Sandeep Sawant]]<br /> * [[Anand Patwardhan]]<br /> * [[Bhagwan Dada]]<br /> * [[Master Vinayak]]<br /> * [[Kunal Deshmukh]]<br /> * [[Vishram Sawant]]<br /> * [[Abhinay Deo]]<br /> * [[Gauri Shinde]]<br /> * [[Nagraj Manjule]]<br /> * [[Dinkar D. Patil]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Tamil film directors==<br /> :{{Main|:Category:Tamil film directors}}<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|* [[Thangar Bachan]]<br /> * [[C. V. Sridhar]]<br /> * [[A. P. Nagarajan]]<br /> * [[A. C. Tirulokchandar]]<br /> * [[K. Balachander]]<br /> * [[Balu Mahendra]]<br /> * [[Mahendran (filmmaker)|Mahendran]]<br /> * [[Bharathiraja]]<br /> * [[Bharathan]]<br /> * [[A. Bhimsingh]]<br /> * [[S. P. Muthuraman]]<br /> * [[S. A. Chandrasekhar]]<br /> * [[Bhagyaraj]]<br /> * [[T. Rajendar]]<br /> * [[P. Vasu]]<br /> * [[Suresh Krissna]]<br /> * [[K. S. Ravikumar]]<br /> * [[Mani Ratnam]]<br /> * [[S. Shankar]]<br /> * [[Vetrimaaran]]<br /> * [[Atlee (director)|Atlee]]<br /> * [[Lokesh Kanagaraj]]<br /> * [[AR Murugadoss]]<br /> * [[V. Z. Durai]]<br /> * [[Seenu Ramasamy]]<br /> * [[Selvaraghavan]]<br /> * [[Thiagarajan Kumararaja]]<br /> * [[Bala (director)|Bala]]<br /> * [[Karthik Subbaraj]]<br /> * [[Nalan Kumarasamy]]<br /> * [[Gautham Menon]]<br /> * [[M. Raja]]<br /> * [[Vasanthabalan]]<br /> * [[Ram (director)|Ram]]<br /> * [[S. J. Surya]]<br /> * [[R. Ajay Gnanamuthu]]<br /> * [[Karthick Naren]]<br /> * [[Kamal Haasan]]<br /> * [[Balaji Sakthivel]]<br /> * [[K. V. Anand]]<br /> * [[P. C. Sreeram]]<br /> * [[Jeeva (director)|Jeeva]]<br /> * [[Rajiv Menon]]<br /> * [[Santosh Sivan]]<br /> * [[Vijay Milton]]<br /> * [[Dharani (director)|Dharani]]<br /> * [[Hari (director)|Hari]]<br /> * [[Ameer Sultan]]<br /> * [[Agathian]]<br /> * [[S. P. Jananathan]]<br /> * [[Mysskin]]<br /> * [[Prabu Solomon]]<br /> * [[Pandiraj]]<br /> * [[Siruthai Siva]]<br /> * [[Pa. Ranjith]]<br /> * [[Samuthirakani]]<br /> * [[M. Sasikumar|Sasikumar]]<br /> * [[Sasi (director)|Sasi]]<br /> * [[R. K. Selvamani]]<br /> * [[Ezhil]]<br /> * [[Saran (director)|Saran]]<br /> * [[Prabhu Deva]]<br /> * [[Dhanush]]<br /> * [[Silambarasan]]<br /> * [[Suseenthiran]]<br /> * [[Venkat Prabhu]]<br /> * [[Vishnuvardhan (director)|Vishnuvardhan]]<br /> * [[Vikraman]]<br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==Telugu film directors==<br /> :{{Main|:Category:Telugu film directors}}<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> * [[Surender Reddy]]<br /> * [[Krishna Vamsi]]<br /> * [[Ram Gopal Varma]]<br /> * [[Teja (film director)|Teja]]<br /> * [[Adurthi Subba Rao]]<br /> * [[Priyadarshan]]<br /> * [[R. Narayana Murthy]]<br /> * [[Nandamuri Taraka Ramarao]]<br /> * [[Bapu (director)|Bapu]]<br /> * [[K. Vijaya Bhaskar]]<br /> * [[Bhaskar (director)|Bhaskar]]<br /> * [[YVS Chowdary]]<br /> * [[Prabhu Deva]]<br /> * [[Gunasekhar]]<br /> * [[Jandhyala]]<br /> * [[Puri Jagannadh]]<br /> * [[Muppalaneni Shiva]]<br /> * [[A. Karunakaran]]<br /> * [[Sekhar Kammula]]<br /> * [[S. V. Krishna Reddy]]<br /> * [[Raghava Lawrence]]<br /> * [[G. Neelakanta Reddy|Neelakanta]]<br /> * [[L. V. Prasad]]<br /> * [[C. Pullaiah]]<br /> * [[Vedantam Raghavaiah]]<br /> * [[S. S. Rajamouli]]<br /> * [[B. S. Ranga]]<br /> * [[Dasari Narayana Rao]]<br /> * [[Krishna Chaitanya (lyricist)]]<br /> * [[K. Raghavendra Rao]]<br /> * [[Katta Subba Rao]]<br /> * [[S.Shivgopal Krishna]]<br /> * [[A. Kodandarami Reddy]]<br /> * [[Trivikram Srinivas]]<br /> * [[Sukumar (director)|Sukumar]]<br /> * [[G. C. Sekhar]]<br /> * [[K. Viswanath|Dr. K. Vishwanath]]<br /> * [[Chandra Sekhar Yeleti]]<br /> * [[Harish Shankar]]<br /> * [[Koratala Siva]]<br /> * [[Boyapati Srinu]]<br /> * [[Anil Ravipudi]]<br /> * [[Srikanth Addala]]<br /> * [[B. V. Nandini Reddy]]<br /> * [[Ajay Bhupathi]]<br /> * [[Prasanth Varma]]<br /> * [[Radha Krishna Kumar]]}}<br /> <br /> ==Jammu and Kashmir film directors==<br /> {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|<br /> *[[Mir Sarwar]] <br /> }}<br /> <br /> ==References==<br /> {{reflist}}<br /> <br /> {{Asian film directors}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Lists of Indian film directors|Film directors]]</div>

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