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Films, actors, directors, and cinema industries in India.

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K. Asif

Overview Karimuddin Asif (1922–1971), popularly known as K. Asif, was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter best known for directing the historical epic Mughal-e-Azam (1960), widely regarded as one of the...

V. Shantaram

Overview V. Shantaram (Shantaram Rajaram Vankudre, 18 November 1901 – 30 October 1990) was an Indian filmmaker, actor and producer regarded as one of the pioneers of Indian cinema. Active across the silent, early talk...

Yash Chopra

Overview Yash Chopra (27 September 1932 – 21 October 2012) was an Indian filmmaker who worked predominantly in Hindi cinema. Widely regarded as one of the most influential directors of his era, he was the founder of Y...

Karan Johar

Overview Karan Johar is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter, television personality and entrepreneur, primarily associated with Hindi cinema. He is the chief executive of Dharma Productions, a film product...

Sanjay Leela Bhansali

Sanjay Leela Bhansali Sanjay Leela Bhansali is an Indian filmmaker, music composer, and producer best known for directing visually elaborate Hindi-language films that blend romance, tragedy, and operatic spectacle. He...

Rajkumar Hirani

Rajkumar Hirani Rajkumar Hirani is an Indian film director, screenwriter, editor and producer who works primarily in Hindi cinema. He is widely regarded as one of the most commercially successful and critically acclai...

Zoya Akhtar

Zoya Akhtar Zoya Akhtar is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer associated with contemporary Hindi cinema. She is known for character-driven narratives that examine class, family relationships and aspiration...

Farhan Akhtar

Overview Farhan Akhtar is an Indian filmmaker, actor, screenwriter, producer, playback singer and television presenter who works primarily in Hindi cinema. He made his directorial debut with Dil Chahta Hai (2001), a f...

Mani Ratnam

Mani Ratnam Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker who works primarily in Tamil cinema, with notable forays into Hindi and other Indian languages. Widely regarded as one of the most influential figures in modern Indian ci...

K. Balachander

Overview K. Balachander (9 July 1930 – 23 December 2014) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and playwright who worked predominantly in Tamil cinema. Often referred to by the honorific "Iyakkunar Sigaram" (Pinnacle ...

S. S. Rajamouli

Overview Koduri Srisaila Sri Rajamouli, popularly known as S. S. Rajamouli, is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works primarily in Telugu cinema. He is widely regarded as one of the most influential filmma...

K. Viswanath

K. Viswanath Kasinadhuni Viswanath (19 February 1930 – 2 February 2023), popularly known as K. Viswanath and addressed as Kalatapasvi ("the ascetic of arts"), was an Indian film director, screenwriter and actor who wo...

Trivikram Srinivas

Overview Trivikram Srinivas is an Indian film director, screenwriter and dialogue writer who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. He is widely known for his distinctive dialogue writing style, which blends literary T...

Sukumar (director)

Overview Sukumar Bandreddi, known professionally as Sukumar, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer who works predominantly in Telugu cinema. Recognised for his complex narratives and visually distincti...

Priyadarshan

Overview Priyadarshan Soman Nair, known mononymously as Priyadarshan, is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer who works primarily in Malayalam and Hindi cinema. Active since the early 1980s, he is recogn...

Subhash Ghai

Overview Subhash Ghai is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, producer and educator, widely associated with mainstream Hindi cinema from the late 1970s through the 2000s. Known popularly as the "Showman" of Bollywood, h...

Shyam Benegal

Shyam Benegal Shyam Benegal was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and documentarian widely regarded as a leading figure of the parallel cinema movement in India. Active from the early 1970s, he directed feature films,...

Govind Nihalani

Govind Nihalani Govind Nihalani is an Indian filmmaker, cinematographer and screenwriter, widely regarded as one of the leading figures of the parallel cinema movement of the 1980s. He is known for socially engaged fi...

David Dhawan

Overview David Dhawan is an Indian film director and editor primarily associated with Hindi cinema. He is best known for directing a long string of commercially successful comedy films from the early 1990s onwards, ma...

Mukesh Bhatt

Overview Mukesh Bhatt is an Indian film producer associated with Hindi cinema. He is the co-founder of Vishesh Films, a production company he established with his elder brother, the filmmaker Mahesh Bhatt. Through Vis...