This is a list of notable
documentary film
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
makers from
India
India, officially the Republic of India, is a country in South Asia. It is the List of countries and dependencies by area, seventh-largest country by area; the List of countries by population (United Nations), most populous country since ...
arranged in alphabetical order.
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A. K. Chettiar
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Aarti Shrivastava
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Akanksha Damini Joshi
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Amudhan R P
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Anand Patwardhan
Anand Patwardhan (; born 18 February 1950) is an Indian documentary filmmaker known for his socio-political, human rights-oriented films. Some of his films explore the rise of religious fundamentalism, sectarianism and casteism in India, while o ...
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Anwar Jamal
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Aparna Sanyal
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Arun Chadha
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Ashvin Kumar
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Shah Alam (filmmaker)
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Biju Toppo
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Bharat Bala
Bharath Bala is an Indian film director, screenwriter and film producer based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
Career
Bharat Bala produced the acclaimed album ''Vande Mataram (album), Vande Mataram'' and the ''Jana Gana Mana Video.'' He heads BharatBal ...
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C. S. Venkiteswaran
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Chalam Bennurkar
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Debalina Majumder
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Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj
Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj is an Indian journalist, documentary film-maker and men's rights movement, men's rights activist. Bhardwaj rose to prominence after producing the documentary ''Martyrs of Marriage'', which covered abuses of Indian Penal C ...
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Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar
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Dinesh D'Souza
Dinesh Joseph D'Souza (; born April 25, 1961) is an American Right-wing politics, right-wing political commentator, conspiracy theorist, author, and filmmaker. He has made several films and written over a dozen books, several of them The New Y ...
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ivya Bharathi
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Ezra Mir
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Faiza Ahmad Khan
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Farha Khatun
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Gauhar Raza
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Goutam Ghose
Goutam Ghose (also spelled Gautam Ghosh; born 24 July 1950) is an Indian film director, actor, music director and cinematographer who works primarily in Cinema of West Bengal, Bengali cinema. He is the only Indian to have received the "Vittorio ...
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Sonali Gulati
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Harjant Gill
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Jagat Murari
Jharana Jhaveri
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K P SASI
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K. Bikram Singh
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K. M. Chaitanya
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Kabir Khan
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Khushboo Ranka
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KARTHICK.G
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Lalit Vachani
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Leena Manimekalai
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Lubna Yusuf
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* Meera Chaudhary
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M. F. Husain
Maqbool Fida Husain (17 September 1915 – 9 June 2011) was an Indian painter and film director who painted Narrative painting, narrative paintings in a modified Cubism, Cubist style. He was one of the founding members of Bombay Progressiv ...
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Maga.Tamizh Prabhagaran
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Mainak Bhaumik
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Mazhar Kamran
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Mike Pandey
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Mira Nair
Mira Nair (born 15 October 1957) is an Indian-American filmmaker based in New York City. Her production company is Mirabai Films. Among her films are '' Mississippi Masala'', '' The Namesake'', the Golden Lion–winning '' Monsoon Wedding'', ...
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Meghnath
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Mujibar Rahaman
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Nakul Singh Sawhney
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Nandan Saxena
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Nisha Pahuja
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Nishtha Jain
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Nirmal Baby Varghese
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Pan Nalin
Nalin Kumar Pandya, popularly known as Pan Nalin, is an Indian filmmaker, best known for directing award-winning movies like '' Samsara'' (2001), '' Valley of Flowers'' (2006), '' Angry Indian Goddesses'' (2015) and the semi-autobiographical ' ...
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Payal Kapadia
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Pankaj Butalia
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Paromita Vohra
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Prakash Jha
Prakash Jha (born 27 February 1952) is an Indian film producer, actor, director and screenwriter, mostly known for his political and socio-political films such as ''Hip Hip Hurray (film), Hip Hip Hurray'' (1984), ''Damul'' (1984), ''Mrityudand ...
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Parvez Sharma
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Pavel (film director)
Pavel is an Indian film director and Screenwriter, screenplay writer who primarily works in Bengali language, Bengali-language films.
He made his debut with the film ''Babar Naam Gandhiji'', which was followed by Rosogolla (film), ''Rosogolla''. ...
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* Qaushiq Mukherjee
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* Raja Sen
Raja Sen (born 10 November 1955) is an Indian film and television director and the winner of three National Film Awards from Kolkata, West Bengal, India. He is the father of Subhasree Sen and Sreyoshi Sen.
Career
Raja Sen first received reco ...
* Rajesh S. Jala
* Rajesh Touchriver
* Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)
* Ritu Sarin
* Rintu Thomas
* Ramon Chibb
* Rituparno Ghosh
Rituparno Ghosh (; 31 August 1963 – 30 May 2013) was an Indian film director, actor, writer and lyricist. After pursuing a degree in economics, he started his career as a creative artist at an advertising agency. He received recognition for h ...
* Ritwik Ghatak
Ritwik Kumar Ghatak (; 4 November 19256 February 1976) was an Indian film director, screenwriter, actor and playwright. Widely considered as one of the greatest film makers of all time, his works remained largely underrated and ignored during hi ...
* Renu Negi
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* Shubhradeep Chakravorty
* Shiny Benjamin
* Saba Dewan
* Sanjay Kak
* Sarvnik Kaur* Sathish Kalathil
* Satyaprakash Upadhyay
* Shashwati Talukdar
* Shriprakash Prakash* shaunak Sen
Shaunak Sen is an Academy award nominated Indian filmmaker, video artist and film scholar. His documentary film on environmental issues, '' All That Breathes,'' won the Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Documentary Competition at 2022 Sundanc ...
* Sonali Gulati
* Sridhar Rangayan
Sridhar Rangayan (also spelt Sridhar Rangaihn; born 2 April 1962) is an Indian filmmaker who has made films with special focus on queer subjects. His queer films, '' The Pink Mirror'', '' Yours Emotionally'', '' 68 Pages'', '' Purple Skies'', ...
* Stalin K
* Sushmit Ghosh
* Shyam Benegal
Shyam Benegal (14 December 1934 – 23 December 2024) was an Indian film director, screenwriter and documentary filmmaker. Often regarded as the pioneer of parallel cinema, he is widely considered as one of the greatest filmmakers post 1970s. H ...
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* Tarun Majumdar
Tarun Majumdar (or Mazumdar, 8 January 1931 – 4 July 2022) was an Indian film director, documentary filmmaker, author, illustrator and screenwriter who is known for his work in Bengali cinema. He received five National Awards, seven BFJA Aw ...
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* Vidhu Vinod Chopra
Vidhu Vinod Chopra (born 5 September 1952) is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and editor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including four National Film Awards and eleven Filmfare Awards. He is known for directing films ...
* Vijaya Mulay
Vijaya Mulay (16 May 1921 – 19 May 2019) was a documentary filmmaker, historian, film historian, writer, educationist and researcher.
She was lovingly called Akka in film circles. Her close friendships with Satyajit Ray, Louis Malle, Mrinal S ...
* Vinay Shukla
* Varrun Sukhraj
References
External links
The Best Film Directors of Indian Cinema
Women documentary filmmakers
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documentary
A documentary film (often described simply as a documentary) is a nonfiction Film, motion picture intended to "document reality, primarily for instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". The American author and ...
Indian filmmakers