Hindi-language screenwriters

Indian film director, producer and screenwriter

Indian actress

Indian filmmaker, script writer and actress

Indian film director

Indian film director and producer

Indian actress and director

Indian actress and screenwriter

Govardhan Asrani (1 January 1941 – 20 October 2025), known professionally and mononymously as Asrani, was an Indian actor and film director. His career in Indian cinema spanned over five decades, during which he appeared in over 350 Hindi and Gujarati films. Asrani worked in lead, character, comedic, and supporting roles. He is particularly noted for his role as the Jailor in Sholay, caricaturing Hitler, and Amadavad no Rikshavaro and for his appearances in 25 films with Rajesh Khanna as the lead actor between 1972 and 1991.

Indian film director

Indian film director

Indian film director (1914–2008)

Indian film director

Indian film director

Indian film director

Indian film director

Indian film and television actor, director, and screenwriter

Indian film director

Indian writer, playwright, and actor (1915-2003)

Indian actor and screenwriter

filmmaker

Indian film director (1963–2017)

Aditya Dhar is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer who works in Hindi cinema. Having previously worked as lyricist, Dhar made his directorial debut with the 2019 war film Uri: The Surgical Strike, a commercially successful venture which earned him the National Film Award for Best Direction. Dhar rose to prominence, with the spy action thriller Dhurandhar duology, comprising Dhurandhar (2025) and Dhurandhar: The Revenge (2026); both films rank among Indian cinema's top five highest earners ever at the box office.

Indian actress

Indian actor, director, and author

Indian actor

Indian playback singer and film producer

Jaddanbai (1 April 1892 – 8 April 1949) was an Indian singer, music composer, dancer, actress, filmmaker, and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema. She along with Bibbo and Saraswati Devi were one of the first female music composers in Indian cinema. She was the mother of actor Anwar Hussain and the well-known Hindi film actress Nargis, and the maternal grandmother of Priya Dutt and Sanjay Dutt.

Indian writer (1931–2021)

Indian screenwriter, actor and director

Indian screenplay writer, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary film maker

Indian filmmaker

Film screenwriter and director (1930-2011)

film director from India (1933-2014)

Indian film director (1961–2012)

Indian film director (1911–1994)

Indian film director (1912-1975)

Indian film writer and director

film producer

Indian screenwriter and director

Indian director, actor, playwright, screenwriter, documentary filmmaker and lyricist

Indian film actor, producer and writer

Indian Filmmaker

Indian film director

Indian film director

Indian film director (1916-1993)

director from India

Indian film director

Indian journalist

Indian film director and editor

Indian poet (1927–1992)

Indian screenwriter

Indian film director

Indian film director and writer

Indian musician

Indian screenwriter

Indian Director (1898–1975)

Indian film director (1925–2007)

England-born Indian screenwriter

screenwriter

Indian film director and screenwriter