Indian film directors

India has many regional film centres: Bollywood, the largest, in Mumbai, producing films in the Hindi language; Kolkata, for films in Bengali; Chennai, for films in [[Tamil], etc. Most Indian film directors are known for their work with one regional industry. Star directors can get funding to film in any language. Hence directors may be listed more than once.

Contents
1 Directors of parallel or independent cinema
2 Directors filming in several languages
3 Bengali film directors
4 Bollywood film directors
5 Malayalam film directors
6 Tamil film directors
7 Telugu film directors
8 See also

Directors of parallel or independent cinema

Parallel cinema is otherwise known as New Indian Cinema, Indian New Wave, Indian Neo-Realism, or by the man/woman in the street, "art films". 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 FTII (Film and Television Institute of India), in 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.

As government funding for cinema has declined, cinematic experimentation has migrated to the small-budget "independent" film. Mira Nair may be the best-known example of this trend -- and also of the current tendency for successful independent film-makers to be tapped for commercial projects. After a string of well-reviewed but not particularly commercially successful projects, her Monsoon Wedding (made on a shoe-string) struck the public fancy. After that success, her big-budget Vanity Fair, 2004, was funded by Miramax, the maverick Hollywood film company.

Directors filming in several languages

Bengali film directors

Bollywood film directors

Malayalam film directors

Tamil film directors

Telugu film directors

See also

See also: Indian film directors, Adoor Gopalakrishanan, Anjali, Balachandra Menon, Bandit Queen, Bapu (artist), Bengali, Bengali cinema, Bharathan, Bimal Roy