List of Indian film directors


, such as Bollywood in Mumbai, Marathi cinema in Pune Telugu cinema in Hyderabad, Tamil cinema in Chennai, Malayalam cinema in Kochi, Kannada cinema in Bangalore, Odia Cinema in Bhubaneswar, Assamese cinema in Guwahati 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

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.

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.
DIRECTORAssameseBengaliBhojpuriEnglishGujaratiHindiKannadaMalayalamMarathiMaithiliOdiaPunjabiTamilTelugu
Ram Gopal Varma
K. Raghavendra Rao-
Dasari Narayana Rao-
S. S. Rajamouli
Puri Jagannath-
S. Shankar
Bharathan-
Basu Bhattacharya-
Gautham Menon-
Girish Karnad-
Girish Kasaravalli-
Mani Ratnam
AR Murugadoss
Puttanna Kanagal-
Satish Rajwade-
Sachin Kundalkar-
Prasanta Nanda-
Hara Patnaik-
Radha Bharadwaj-
Siddique-
P.VasuYESYES-
Sunil Kumar Desai-
Mahesh Manjrekar-
Upendra-
Aarun Nagar

Bengali film directors

Gujrati film directors

Kannada film directors

Malayalam film directors

Marathi film directors

Tamil film directors

Telugu film directors

J&K film directors

Bihari film directors