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Indian cinema

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

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Girish Kasaravalli

Overview Girish Kasaravalli is an Indian filmmaker associated with the parallel cinema movement in Kannada. Widely regarded as one of the most significant directors to emerge from Karnataka after Pattabhirama Reddy an...

Prashanth Neel

Overview Prashanth Neel is an Indian film director and screenwriter who works predominantly in Kannada cinema. He is best known for creating the KGF film franchise, which significantly expanded the commercial reach of...

Hrishikesh Mukherjee

Overview Hrishikesh Mukherjee (1922–2006) was an Indian film director, editor and screenwriter widely regarded as one of the foremost makers of Hindi middle-of-the-road cinema. Active primarily between the 1950s and t...

Mira Nair

Mira Nair Mira Nair is an Indian-American filmmaker known for cinema that bridges South Asian and Western themes, often focusing on diaspora identity, family, and social inequality. Her debut feature Salaam Bombay! (1...

Deepa Mehta

Overview Deepa Mehta is an Indian-Canadian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer best known for her socially conscious cinema exploring identity, gender, displacement and communal tensions in South Asia. She is most wi...

Vidhu Vinod Chopra

Vidhu Vinod Chopra Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian filmmaker, producer and screenwriter associated with Hindi cinema. He is the founder of Vinod Chopra Films, a production company based in Mumbai, and is known for dir...

Ronnie Screwvala

Overview Rohinton "Ronnie" Screwvala is an Indian entrepreneur, film producer and philanthropist, widely regarded as one of the pioneers of the modern Indian media and entertainment industry. He is the founder of UTV ...

Tigmanshu Dhulia

Overview Tigmanshu Dhulia is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, casting director, and actor associated primarily with Hindi cinema. He is known for directing films rooted in the heartland of north India, particularly ...

Shoojit Sircar

Shoojit Sircar Shoojit Sircar is an Indian filmmaker known for directing socially conscious films that blend commercial cinema with realist storytelling. Working primarily in Hindi cinema, he has directed films such a...

Dibakar Banerjee

Overview Dibakar Banerjee is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer known for his work in Hindi cinema. He is regarded as one of the leading voices of contemporary independent and alternative filmmaking in Ind...

Ketan Mehta

Overview Ketan Mehta is an Indian filmmaker associated with the parallel cinema movement of the 1980s and a subsequent body of mainstream historical and biographical films. A graduate of the Film and Television Instit...

Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

Overview Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is an Indian actress and former model who works primarily in Hindi and Tamil cinema, with additional work in Bengali, English and Telugu films. She rose to international prominence afte...

Shraddha Kapoor

Overview Shraddha Kapoor is an Indian actress who works predominantly in Hindi cinema. Among the highest-paid actresses in India during the 2010s, she is known for her work in commercial romantic dramas, horror films,...

Uttam Kumar

Uttam Kumar Uttam Kumar (born Arun Kumar Chatterjee; 3 September 1926 – 24 July 1980) was an Indian actor, film producer, director, screenwriter, composer and playback singer who worked predominantly in Bengali cinema...

Soumitra Chatterjee

Overview Soumitra Chatterjee (19 January 1935 – 15 November 2020) was an Indian actor, poet, playwright, theatre director, essayist, and elocutionist who worked predominantly in Bengali cinema. Widely regarded as one ...

Suchitra Sen

Overview Suchitra Sen (born Roma Dasgupta; 6 April 1931 – 17 January 2014) was an Indian actress who worked predominantly in Bengali cinema and also in a few Hindi films. Active between 1952 and 1978, she is regarded ...

Satyajit Ray

Overview Satyajit Ray (1921–1992) was an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, music composer, graphic artist, illustrator, and author, widely regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. Working primaril...

Mrinal Sen

Mrinal Sen Mrinal Sen was an Indian filmmaker widely regarded as one of the foremost figures of parallel cinema and a leading exponent of socially engaged film-making in post-Independence India. Working primarily in B...

Ritwik Ghatak

Ritwik Ghatak Ritwik Kumar Ghatak was a Bengali Indian filmmaker, screenwriter, playwright and film theorist, widely regarded as one of the most significant figures in Indian parallel cinema. His work, deeply marked b...

Mehboob Khan

Overview Mehboob Khan (1907–1964) was an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who was among the most influential figures in Hindi cinema between the late 1930s and the early 1960s. He is best remembered for...