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List of Indian film directors

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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 Kochi, Kannada cinema in Bangalore, Odia Cinema in Bhubaneswar, Assamese cinema in Guwahati, Punjabi cinema in Mohali 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.

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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.

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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.

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! Assamese

! Bengali

! Bhojpuri

! English

! Gujarati

! Hindi

! Kannada

! Malayalam

! Marathi

! Maithili

! Odia

! Punjabi

! Tamil

! Telugu

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K. Raghavendra Rao

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Dasari Narayana Rao

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S. S. Rajamouli

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Mrinal Sen

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Puttanna Kanagal

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Sachin Kundalkar

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Shonali Bose

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Hara Patnaik

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Sunil Kumar Desai

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Nagraj Manjule

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Laxman Utekar

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Sanskrit film directors

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Bengali film directors

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Hindi film directors

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Punjabi film directors

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Gujrati film directors

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Kannada film directors

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Malayalam film directors

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Marathi film directors

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Tamil film directors

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Telugu film directors

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Jammu and Kashmir film directors

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References

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