India has
many regional film centres: Bollywood, the
largest, in Mumbai
, producing
films in the Hindi language; Bangalore
,for films in Kannada;
Kolkata
, for films in Bengali; Chennai
, for films
in Tamil: Hyderabad
, for films in Telugu
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.
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
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.
Directors filming in several languages
- Bharathan (Malayalam, Tamil,
Telugu)
- Basu Bhattacharya (Bengali,
Hindi)
- Adoor Gopalakrishnan
(Malayalam)
- Sonali Gulati (Hindi,
English)
- Shaji Karun ( Malayalam, Hindi)
- Priyadarshan
(Malayalam,Tamil,Hindi)
- TK Rajeev Kumar ( Malayalam,Hindi )
- Mani Ratnam
(Tamil,Hindi,Telugu,Kannada,Malayalam)
- Shankar (Tamil, Telugu, Hindi)
- Bimal Roy (Bengali, Hindi)
- Sridhar Rangayan (Hindi,
English)
- Mrinal Sen (Bengali, Hindi, Oriya,
Telugu)
- Partho Sen-Gupta (Hindi,
English, French)
- Aparna Sen (English, Bengali,
Hindi)
- Ram Gopal Varma (telugu Hindi
Tamil)
- Biju Viswanath(English, Hindi,
Tamil, Malayalam, Sinhala)
- R.Madhesh (Tamil, Telegu)
- Nidhish P
Kavinnamannil(English, Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam)
- Pankaj Shukla(English, Hindi,
Bhojpuri)
- Vijay Singh(English, Hindi)
Hindi film directors
Bengali film directors
Marathi Film Directors
Kannada film directors
Malayalam film directors
Tamil film directors
Telugu film directors