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200 Best Indian Directors (currently)

by seccess • Created 8 years ago • Modified 5 years ago
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  • Adoor Gopalakrishnan

    1. Adoor Gopalakrishnan

    Added
    May 12, 2017
  • Mira Nair at an event for IMDb First Credit (2016)

    2. Mira Nair

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Shekhar Kapur at an event for Elizabeth: The Golden Age (2007)

    3. Shekhar Kapur

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Mani Ratnam at an event for Guru (2007)

    4. Mani Ratnam

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Ram Gopal Varma

    5. Ram Gopal Varma

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Anurag Kashyap

    6. Anurag Kashyap

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Vishal Bhardwaj

    7. Vishal Bhardwaj

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Dibakar Banerjee

    8. Dibakar Banerjee

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Rajkumar Hirani

    9. Rajkumar Hirani

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Ashutosh Gowariker

    10. Ashutosh Gowariker

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Deepa Mehta

    11. Deepa Mehta

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Jayaraj

    12. Jayaraj

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Amit Dutta

    13. Amit Dutta

    Added
    May 10, 2019
  • Sanjay Leela Bhansali

    14. Sanjay Leela Bhansali

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Vidhu Vinod Chopra

    15. Vidhu Vinod Chopra

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017

  • 16. T.K. Rajeev Kumar

    Added
    Jun 16, 2017
  • Abhishek Chaubey

    17. Abhishek Chaubey

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Nagraj Manjule

    18. Nagraj Manjule

    Added
    May 12, 2017

  • 19. Sanjay Puran Singh Chauhan

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Gurvinder Singh in Alms for a Blind Horse (2011)

    20. Gurvinder Singh

    Added
    May 12, 2019

  • 21. Arun Prabhu Purushothaman

    Added
    Mar 2, 2018

  • 22. Mahesh Mathai

    Added
    May 12, 2017

  • 23. Ram Madhvani

    Added
    May 12, 2017
  • Vetrimaaran

    24. Vetrimaaran

    Added
    May 12, 2017
  • T.S. Nagabharana

    25. T.S. Nagabharana

    Added
    Jun 14, 2017

  • 26. Girish Kasaravalli

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • K. Raghavendra Rao in Om Namo Venkatesaya (2017)

    27. K. Raghavendra Rao

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Cheran

    28. Cheran

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Bharathiraja

    29. Bharathiraja

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017

  • 30. Pawan Kumar

    Added
    Jun 8, 2017
  • Yograj Bhat

    31. Yograj Bhat

    Added
    Jun 8, 2017

  • 32. M. Manikandan

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Anjali Menon

    33. Anjali Menon

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017

  • 34. T.K. Rajeev Kumar

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Vikramaditya Motwane

    35. Vikramaditya Motwane

    Added
    Jun 8, 2017
  • Anurag Basu

    36. Anurag Basu

    Added
    Jun 8, 2017
  • Ayan Mukerji

    37. Ayan Mukerji

    Added
    Jun 8, 2017
  • Nila Madhab Panda

    38. Nila Madhab Panda

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Karthick Naren

    39. Karthick Naren

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Neeraj Pandey

    40. Neeraj Pandey

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017

  • 41. Nandita Roy

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Srijit Mukherji

    42. Srijit Mukherji

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017

  • 43. Shiboprosad Mukherjee

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Priyadarshan

    44. Priyadarshan

    Added
    Jun 16, 2017

  • 45. Bedabrata Pain

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017

  • 46. R.S. Vimal

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Alphonse Puthren

    47. Alphonse Puthren

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Bala

    48. Bala

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Kamaleswar Mukherjee

    49. Kamaleswar Mukherjee

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Thiagarajan Kumararaja

    50. Thiagarajan Kumararaja

    Added
    Aug 8, 2017
  • Rakshit Shetty in Ulidavaru Kandanthe (2014)

    51. Rakshit Shetty

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Kamal Haasan

    52. Kamal Haasan

    Added
    Feb 12, 2017
  • Shoojit Sircar

    53. Shoojit Sircar

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Aanand L. Rai

    54. Aanand L. Rai

    Added
    Jul 9, 2017
  • Prakash Jha

    55. Prakash Jha

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

    56. Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Mahesh Manjrekar

    57. Mahesh Manjrekar

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017

  • 58. Shimit Amin

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • S.S. Rajamouli

    59. S.S. Rajamouli

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Anand at a cafe in Versova

    60. Anand Gandhi

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Pan Nalin on the set of Last Film Show

    61. Pan Nalin

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017

  • 62. Abhishek Jain

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017

  • 63. Radha Krishna Jagarlamudi

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Kaushik Ganguly

    64. Kaushik Ganguly

    Added
    Jun 11, 2017
  • Ketan Mehta at an event for Mangal Pandey (2005)

    65. Ketan Mehta

    Added
    Jun 16, 2017
  • Rajkumar Santoshi

    66. Rajkumar Santoshi

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Chaitanya Tamhane

    67. Chaitanya Tamhane

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Madhur Bhandarkar

    68. Madhur Bhandarkar

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Aparna Sen

    69. Aparna Sen

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Tigmanshu Dhulia at an event for Main Tera Hero (2014)

    70. Tigmanshu Dhulia

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Nagesh Kukunoor

    71. Nagesh Kukunoor

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

    72. Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • R Balki

    73. R Balki

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017

  • 74. Gajendra Vitthal Ahire

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Sudhir Mishra

    75. Sudhir Mishra

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Suman Ghosh at an event for The Scavenger of Dreams (2023)

    76. Suman Ghosh

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017

  • 77. Raj Kumar Gupta

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Buddhadev Dasgupta

    78. Buddhadev Dasgupta

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Shaji N. Karun

    79. Shaji N. Karun

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017

  • 80. Krishna Vamsi

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Shyamaprasad

    81. Shyamaprasad

    Added
    Jun 27, 2017
  • Reema Kagti

    82. Reema Kagti

    Added
    Jun 18, 2017
  • Raam Reddy

    83. Raam Reddy

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

    84. Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Ritesh Batra

    85. Ritesh Batra

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Asif Kapadia

    86. Asif Kapadia

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017

  • 87. Ruchika Oberoi

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Leena Yadav

    88. Leena Yadav

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Geethu Mohandas

    89. Geethu Mohandas

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017
  • Nishikant Kamat

    90. Nishikant Kamat

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017

  • 91. Partho Sen-Gupta

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017

  • 92. Abhay Kumar

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Anusha Rizvi

    93. Anusha Rizvi

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Bhaskar Hazarika

    94. Bhaskar Hazarika

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017

  • 95. Sundar C.

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Prashant Nair in Umrika (2015)

    96. Prashant Nair

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Gautham Vasudev Menon

    97. Gautham Vasudev Menon

    Added
    Aug 8, 2017
  • Farhan Akhtar

    98. Farhan Akhtar

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Homi Adajania

    99. Homi Adajania

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Sriram Raghavan

    100. Sriram Raghavan

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Nag Ashwin

    101. Nag Ashwin

    Added
    May 1, 2019
  • Vasan Bala

    102. Vasan Bala

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Om Raut

    103. Om Raut

    Added
    Jul 20, 2017

  • 104. Rajesh Mapuskar

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • S. Shankar

    105. S. Shankar

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • Shrihari Sathe

    106. Shrihari Sathe

    Added
    Jun 21, 2017
  • V.A. Shrikumar Menon

    107. V.A. Shrikumar Menon

    Added
    Jun 19, 2017
  • Abhishek Kapoor

    108. Abhishek Kapoor

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017

  • 109. Rajni Basumatary

    Added
    Jun 26, 2017
  • Rahul Dholakia

    110. Rahul Dholakia

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017
  • Meghna Gulzar at an event for Guilty (2015)

    111. Meghna Gulzar

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017

  • 112. Saket Chaudhary

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017
  • Kiran Rao

    113. Kiran Rao

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017
  • Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

    114. Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017

  • 115. Raja Menon

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017
  • Hansal Mehta (r) with cinematographer Satya Rai Nagpaul

    116. Hansal Mehta

    Added
    Jun 28, 2017
  • Kodi Ramakrishna

    117. Kodi Ramakrishna

    Added
    Jul 3, 2017
  • Shanker Raman

    118. Shanker Raman

    Added
    Jul 5, 2017
  • Nitesh Tiwari

    119. Nitesh Tiwari

    Added
    Jul 5, 2017

  • 120. Arundhava Raja

    Added
    Jul 9, 2017
  • Chandra Prakash Dwivedi

    121. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi

    Added
    Jul 13, 2017
  • Bejoy Nambiar

    122. Bejoy Nambiar

    Added
    Jul 15, 2017
  • Mysskin

    123. Mysskin

    Added
    Aug 8, 2017
  • Alankrita Shrivastava

    124. Alankrita Shrivastava

    Added
    Oct 2, 2017
  • Navdeep Singh

    125. Navdeep Singh

    Added
    Oct 16, 2017
  • Amar Kaushik

    126. Amar Kaushik

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019
  • Amit Ravindernath Sharma

    127. Amit Ravindernath Sharma

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019

  • 128. Rs Prasanna

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019

  • 129. Arpita Pattanayak

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019
  • Jyoti Kapur Das

    130. Jyoti Kapur Das

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019
  • Adhiraj Bose

    131. Adhiraj Bose

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019
  • Sonam Nair

    132. Sonam Nair

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019
  • Mansi Jain

    133. Mansi Jain

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019
  • Shayon Maitra

    134. Shayon Maitra

    Added
    Jan 12, 2019
  • Manish Jha

    135. Manish Jha

    Added
    Jan 13, 2019

  • 136. Sanjay M. Khanduri

    Added
    Jan 16, 2019
  • Abhinay Deo

    137. Abhinay Deo

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 138. Feroz Abbas Khan

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 139. Amit Rai

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 140. Samar Khan

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 141. Subhash Kapoor

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Chandan Arora in Company (2002)

    142. Chandan Arora

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Abhishek Sharma

    143. Abhishek Sharma

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Jag Mundhra

    144. Jag Mundhra

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Raj Nidimoru

    145. Raj Nidimoru

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • West is West - on set

    146. Andy De Emmony

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Nikkhil Advani

    147. Nikkhil Advani

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 148. Arnab Chaudhuri

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 149. Rajan Khosa

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Aamir Bashir

    150. Aamir Bashir

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Karan Gour

    151. Karan Gour

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Umesh Shukla

    152. Umesh Shukla

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 153. Sanjiv Jaiswal

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 154. Sidharth Srinivasan

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 155. Faiza Ahmad Khan

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Tanuja Chandra

    156. Tanuja Chandra

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 157. Amit Saxena

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 158. Abhay Kumar

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 159. Anu Menon

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 160. Akshay Singh

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Shubhashish Bhutiani

    161. Shubhashish Bhutiani

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Kanu Behl

    162. Kanu Behl

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Neeraj Ghaywan

    163. Neeraj Ghaywan

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019

  • 164. Umesh Kulkarni

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Amit Masurkar

    165. Amit Masurkar

    Added
    Jan 17, 2019
  • Kabir Chopra

    166. Kabir Chopra

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019
  • B.R. Chopra

    167. B.R. Chopra

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019
  • Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

    168. Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019
  • Aruna Raje

    169. Aruna Raje

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019

  • 170. Gajendra Vitthal Ahire

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019
  • Jabbar Patel

    171. Jabbar Patel

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019
  • Sai Paranjpye

    172. Sai Paranjpye

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019
  • Kalpana Lajmi

    173. Kalpana Lajmi

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019

  • 174. Kiran Yadnyopavit

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019
  • Salim Ahmed

    175. Salim Ahmed

    Added
    Jan 20, 2019
  • Aditya Sarpotdar

    176. Aditya Sarpotdar

    Added
    Feb 2, 2019

  • 177. Manjeet Singh

    Added
    Feb 2, 2019

  • 178. Prantik Narayan Basu

    Added
    Feb 3, 2019
  • Kshitij Sharma at an event for Kaalchakra (2016)

    179. Kshitij Sharma

    Added
    Feb 3, 2019
  • Amole Gupte at an event for Hawaa Hawaai (2014)

    180. Amole Gupte

    Added
    Mar 25, 2019
  • Imtiaz Ali

    181. Imtiaz Ali

    Added
    Feb 3, 2019
  • K. Selvaraghavan

    182. K. Selvaraghavan

    Added
    Feb 15, 2019
  • Lijo Jose Pellissery

    183. Lijo Jose Pellissery

    Added
    Feb 15, 2019
  • Atlee

    184. Atlee

    Added
    Feb 15, 2019
  • Karthik Subbaraj

    185. Karthik Subbaraj

    Added
    Feb 15, 2019
  • Chandra Prakash Dwivedi

    186. Chandra Prakash Dwivedi

    Added
    Feb 18, 2019
  • Sujoy Ghosh

    187. Sujoy Ghosh

    Added
    Mar 22, 2019

  • 188. Nitin Kakkar

    Added
    Mar 22, 2019

  • 189. Rahi Anil Barve

    Added
    Mar 22, 2019
  • Rajat Kapoor

    190. Rajat Kapoor

    Added
    Mar 25, 2019

  • 191. Adesh Prasad

    Added
    Mar 22, 2019
  • Konkona Sen Sharma

    192. Konkona Sen Sharma

    Added
    Mar 25, 2019

  • 193. Irfan Kamal

    Added
    Mar 22, 2019

  • 194. Arun Prabhu Purushothaman

    Added
    Mar 22, 2019
  • Shlok Sharma

    195. Shlok Sharma

    Added
    Mar 24, 2019

  • 196. Ravi Jadhav

    Added
    Mar 25, 2019

  • 197. Sanal Kumar Sasidharan

    Added
    Mar 25, 2019

  • 198. Ashwini Chaudhary

    Added
    Mar 25, 2019
  • Avinash Das

    199. Avinash Das

    Added
    Mar 25, 2019
  • Rahul Bose

    200. Rahul Bose

    Added
    Mar 25, 2019
  • Sandeep Reddy Vanga

    201. Sandeep Reddy Vanga

    Added
    Mar 26, 2019

  • 202. Bharatbala

    Added
    Mar 26, 2019

  • 203. Mrighdeep Lamba

    Added
    Apr 4, 2019

  • 204. Ravi Udyawar

    Added
    Apr 4, 2019

  • 205. Raju Murugan

    Added
    Apr 4, 2019
  • Sandeep Mohan

    206. Sandeep Mohan

    Added
    Apr 15, 2019

  • 207. Sabyasachi Mohapatra

    Added
    May 6, 2019

  • 208. Jayaprakash Radhakrishnan

    Added
    May 13, 2019

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