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Top 100 Directors in India

The most publicly visible directors in India.

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The most famous directors in India right now — ranked by the public attention they command across search, news, Wikipedia, and social.

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#	Δ	Person	Country	Category	Fame	Momentum
#1	4	Ajay Devgn	India	Directors	80.4	3.1
#2	1	Satyajit Ray	India	Directors	74.9	0.0
#3	1	Venkat Prabhu	India	Directors	71.3	6.2
#4	1	Raj Kapoor	India	Directors	61.1	0.2
#5	1	Vidhu Vinod Chopra	India	Directors	60.4	6.9
#6	—	Ashutosh Gowariker	India	Directors	59.8	10.0
#7	—	Paresh Rawal	India	Directors	59.7	15.0
#8	—	Sanjay Dutt	India	Directors	59.6	0.0
#9	—	Mira Nair	India	Directors	59.3	0.0
#10	—	Yash Chopra	India	Directors	58.9	8.6
#11	—	Bimal Roy	India	Directors	58.1	0.0
#12	—	Ravi Shankar	India	Directors	57.6	0.0
#13	—	Zoya Akhtar	India	Directors	57.5	2.2
#14	—	Priyadarshan	India	Directors	57.4	15.0
#15	1	Mehmood Ali	India	Directors	57.3	8.2
#16	1	Vikram Bhatt	India	Directors	57.2	15.8
#17	—	Gauri Khan	India	Directors	57.0	1.0
#18	—	Rituparno Ghosh	India	Directors	56.9	9.0
#19	—	PN Pahlaj Nihalani	India	Directors	56.8	16.3
#20	—	Shashi Kapoor	India	Directors	56.8	0.0
#21	—	Rajkumar Santoshi	India	Directors	56.7	15.4
#22	—	Aishwarya R. Dhanush	India	Directors	56.5	2.4
#23	—	Ramanand Sagar	India	Directors	56.0	10.0
#24	—	Meghna Gulzar	India	Directors	56.0	7.6
#25	—	Nandita Das	India	Directors	56.0	2.2
#26	—	Sukumar	India	Directors	56.0	10.0
#27	—	Balu Mahendra	India	Directors	55.6	18.3
#28	new	Tarsem Singh	India	Directors	55.4	0.0
#29	1	Neena Gupta	India	Directors	55.0	0.0
#30	1	Rajendra Sadashiv Nikalje	India	Directors	54.8	5.8
#31	1	Silambarasan TR	India	Directors	54.7	0.0
#32	1	Santosh Sivan	India	Directors	54.6	10.6
#33	1	Bhushan Kumar	India	Directors	54.6	7.7
#34	1	Ronnie Screwvala	India	Directors	54.4	15.6
#35	1	Prakash Jha	India	Directors	54.2	2.2
#36	1	Mansoor Khan	India	Directors	54.1	2.0
#37	1	Sanjay Khan	India	Directors	54.1	1.7
#38	1	Shyam Benegal	India	Directors	54.1	1.1
#39	1	Parmeet Sethi	India	Directors	54.0	2.4
#40	1	Hrishikesh Mukherjee	India	Directors	54.0	0.8
#41	1	Ayesha Dutt	India	Directors	53.9	2.5
#42	1	Ritwik Ghatak	India	Directors	53.8	1.0
#43	1	Rohit Shetty	India	Directors	53.7	0.3
#44	1	VK Vikram Kumar	India	Directors	53.6	11.0
#45	1	Dasari Narayana Rao	India	Directors	53.6	4.2
#46	1	Allu Aravind	India	Directors	53.5	16.8
#47	1	Ayan Mukerji	India	Directors	53.4	2.4
#48	2	Sooraj R. Barjatya	India	Directors	53.0	0.9
#49	2	Anil Kumar	India	Directors	52.9	4.2
#50	2	Mehboob Khan	India	Directors	52.8	0.0
#51	2	Ramesh Sippy	India	Directors	52.8	0.0
#52	1	K. Selvaraghavan	India	Directors	52.7	1.6
#53	1	Nishikant Kamat	India	Directors	52.7	3.7
#54	1	Muzaffar Ali	India	Directors	52.6	1.6
#55	1	Nasir Hussain	India	Directors	52.5	0.0
#56	1	S Siddique	India	Directors	52.4	8.6
#57	1	Koratala Siva	India	Directors	52.4	9.5
#58	1	K. Balaji	India	Directors	52.4	6.9
#59	1	Sumeet Saigal	India	Directors	52.3	4.4
#60	1	Ramkumar Ganesan	India	Directors	52.3	4.0
#61	2	Rajeev Ravi	India	Directors	52.3	7.1
#62	new	Adoor Gopalakrishnan	India	Directors	52.4	0.4
#63	new	A Abbas	India	Directors	52.1	0.0
#64	4	Chetan Anand	India	Directors	52.1	0.4
#65	3	Goldie Behl	India	Directors	52.0	15.0
#66	3	KR Kasthuri Raja	India	Directors	52.0	23.9
#67	3	GM Gopichand Malineni	India	Directors	52.0	20.2
#68	3	Suresh Krishna	India	Directors	52.0	14.3
#69	2	Gangai Amaran	India	Directors	52.0	34.0
#70	2	Payal Kapadia	India	Directors	51.8	0.0
#71	2	Sundar C	India	Directors	51.8	0.0
#72	new	Basu Chatterjee	India	Directors	51.9	0.8
#73	3	Puttanna Kanagal	India	Directors	51.7	24.0
#74	3	Ketan Mehta	India	Directors	51.5	2.2
#75	3	Harish Kumar	India	Directors	51.4	2.4
#76	3	Arundathi Nag	India	Directors	51.4	1.2
#77	3	Reema Kagti	India	Directors	51.3	0.5
#78	3	BA Baba Azmi	India	Directors	51.3	14.6
#79	3	Sudhir Mishra	India	Directors	51.2	18.8
#80	2	Balaji Mohan	India	Directors	51.2	16.5
#81	4	Chandrahasan	India	Directors	51.2	6.8
#82	4	PK Padma Khanna	India	Directors	51.1	6.8
#83	4	Siddhanta Mahapatra	India	Directors	51.1	12.6
#84	4	Parvathamma Rajkumar	India	Directors	51.0	16.5
#85	4	V. V. Vinayak	India	Directors	50.9	5.4
#86	3	Mani Kaul	India	Directors	50.9	3.2
#87	3	J. P. Dutta	India	Directors	50.9	0.0
#88	3	Babu Antony	India	Directors	50.9	1.9
#89	3	SB Suresh Balaje	India	Directors	50.8	8.1
#90	3	Sekhar Kammula	India	Directors	50.8	3.1
#91	3	Raj Khosla	India	Directors	50.7	4.2
#92	—	Amal Neerad	India	Directors	50.7	5.3
#93	4	Pa Ranjith	India	Directors	50.6	1.0
#94	4	Maneesh Sharma	India	Directors	50.6	5.2
#95	4	Shashank Khaitan	India	Directors	50.5	7.4
#96	6	Shankar Panikkar	India	Directors	50.4	6.2
#97	4	Major Ravi	India	Directors	50.3	12.2
#98	4	Girish Kasaravalli	India	Directors	50.3	19.0
#99	4	Ram	India	Directors	50.3	2.4
#100	4	Ravi Chopra	India	Directors	50.3	0.6

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