List of Indian film directors

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Template:Multiple image India has many regional film centres, such as Bollywood (Hindi) in Mumbai, Telugu cinema (Tollywood) in Hyderabad, Marathi cinema in Pune, Tamil cinema in Chennai, Malayalam cinema in Kochi, Kannada cinema in Bangalore, Odia Cinema in Bhubaneswar, Assamese cinema in Guwahati, Punjabi cinema in Mohali and Bengali cinema in Kolkata . Most Indian film directors are known for their work with one regional industry, while many others are active directors of films from multiple industries.

Directors of parallel or independent cinema

Parallel Cinema is otherwise known as "Art films" 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 "neo-realist" is Satyajit Ray. {{columns-list|colwidth=20em|

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.

DIRECTOR	Gujarati	Hindi	Kannada	Malayalam	Marathi	Maithili	Odia	Punjabi	Tamil	Telugu
Ram Gopal Varma		Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes					Template:Yes	Template:Yes
K. Raghavendra Rao		Template:Yes	Template:Yes						Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Dasari Narayana Rao		Template:Yes							Template:Yes	Template:Yes
S. S. Rajamouli									Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Puri Jagannadh		Template:Yes	Template:Yes					Template:Yes	Template:Yes
S. Shankar		Template:Yes							Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Bharathan				Template:Yes
Basu Bhattacharya		Template:Yes							Template:Yes
Gautham Menon		Template:Yes						Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Girish Karnad		Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Girish Kasaravalli		Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Mani Ratnam		Template:Yes	Template:Yes						Template:Yes	Template:Yes
AR Murugadoss		Template:Yes							Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Puttanna Kanagal		Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Satish Rajwade		Template:Yes			Template:Yes
Sachin Kundalkar		Template:Yes			Template:Yes
Prasanta Nanda	Template:Yes				Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Hara Patnaik	Template:Yes				Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Siddique	Template:Yes		Template:Yes				Template:Yes
Sunil Kumar Desai		Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Mahesh Manjrekar		Template:Yes			Template:Yes
Upendra		Template:Yes	Template:Yes						Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Anup Bhandari		Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes					Template:Yes	Template:Yes