List of Indian film directors

Template:Short description Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates 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 Kerala, Kannada cinema in Bangalore, Odia Cinema in Bhubaneswar and Cuttack, Assamese cinema in Guwahati, Punjabi cinema in Mohali, Gujarati cinema (Dhollywood) in Gujarat and Bengali cinema (Tollywood) in Kolkata. Most film directors are known for their work with one regional industry, while many others are active directors of films from multiple industries. {{#invoke:Hatnote|hatnote}}{{#ifeq:||}}

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. Template:Columns-list

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	Bengali	English	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
Mrinal Sen	Template:Yes			Template:Yes					Template:Yes			Template:Yes
Puri Jagannadh				Template:Yes	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 Vasudev 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
Rituparno Ghosh	Template:Yes	Template:Yes		Template:Yes
Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar				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
Shonali Bose		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
Nagraj Manjule				Template:Yes			Template:Yes
Om Raut				Template:Yes			Template:Yes
Anup Bhandari				Template:Yes	Template:Yes	Template:Yes					Template:Yes	Template:Yes
Laxman Utekar				Template:Yes			Template:Yes
Srijit Mukherji	Template:Yes			Template:Yes
Shaji N Karun				Template:Yes		Template:Yes