Index
The Directors
138 filmmakers hold the 232 films in this canon. Here they all are, by weight.
By films in the canon
- Anurag Kashyap (8)
- Shyam Benegal (8)
- Yash Chopra (7)
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee (7)
- Ram Gopal Varma (6)
- Gulzar (5)
- Dibakar Banerjee (5)
- Bimal Roy (4)
- Vishal Bhardwaj (4)
- Imtiaz Ali (4)
- Mani Ratnam (4)
- Ashutosh Gowariker (3)
- Shekhar Kapur (3)
- Sai Paranjpye (3)
- Vikramaditya Motwane (3)
- Sriram Raghavan (3)
- Rajkumar Hirani (3)
- Zoya Akhtar (3)
- Meghna Gulzar (3)
- Shoojit Sircar (3)
- Anubhav Sinha (3)
- Sanjay Leela Bhansali (3)
- Karan Johar (3)
- Basu Chatterjee (3)
- Guru Dutt (2)
- Vijay Anand (2)
- Raj Kapoor (2)
- Kundan Shah (2)
- Rajkumar Santoshi (2)
- Muzaffar Ali (2)
- Govind Nihalani (2)
- Mira Nair (2)
- Vidhu Vinod Chopra (2)
- Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra (2)
- Anurag Basu (2)
- Ritesh Batra (2)
- Amit V. Masurkar (2)
- Neeraj Pandey (2)
- Nagesh Kukunoor (2)
- Sudhir Mishra (2)
- Hansal Mehta (2)
- Sharat Katariya (2)
- Mahesh Manjrekar (2)
- Vinay Shukla (2)
- Saeed Akhtar Mirza (2)
- Abhishek Chaubey (2)
- Anvita Dutt (2)
- Ramesh Sippy (1)
- K. Asif (1)
- Mehboob Khan (1)
- Aditya Chopra (1)
- Farhan Akhtar (1)
- Neeraj Ghaywan (1)
- Abrar Alvi (1)
- M. S. Sathyu (1)
- Jyoti Swaroop (1)
- Manmohan Desai (1)
- Mahesh Bhatt (1)
- Vikas Bahl (1)
- Rahi Anil Barve (1)
- Sujoy Ghosh (1)
- Aamir Khan (1)
- Shimit Amin (1)
- Tigmanshu Dhulia (1)
- Anand Gandhi (1)
- Rajat Kapoor (1)
- Nishikant Kamat (1)
- Anusha Rizvi (1)
- Amit Ravindernath Sharma (1)
- Amar Kaushik (1)
- Kiran Rao (1)
- Sooraj Barjatya (1)
- Farah Khan (1)
- Abbas–Mustan (1)
- Prakash Mehra (1)
- Chandra Barot (1)
- Subhash Ghai (1)
- Priyadarshan (1)
- Shakti Samanta (1)
- Basu Bhattacharya (1)
- Rakesh Roshan (1)
- Ayan Mukerji (1)
- John Matthew Matthan (1)
- Navdeep Singh (1)
- Kanu Behl (1)
- Rohena Gera (1)
- Chaitanya Tamhane (1)
- Laxman Utekar (1)
- Abhishek Kapoor (1)
- Akarsh Khurana (1)
- Pradeep Sarkar (1)
- Ram Madhvani (1)
- Ketan Mehta (1)
- Kabir Khan (1)
- Reema Kagti (1)
- Mrinal Sen (1)
- Mani Kaul (1)
- Awtar Krishna Kaul (1)
- Madhur Bhandarkar (1)
- Nandita Das (1)
- Abbas Tyrewala (1)
- Abhinay Deo (1)
- Amit Masurkar (1)
- Seema Pahwa (1)
- Avinash Das (1)
- Aniruddha Roy Chowdhury (1)
- Shakun Batra (1)
- Shonali Bose (1)
- Gauri Shinde (1)
- Balu Mahendra (1)
- Satyen Bose (1)
- Amit Maitra (1)
- Sombhu Mitra (1)
- B. R. Chopra (1)
- Kalpana Lajmi (1)
- Suresh Triveni (1)
- Jasmeet K. Reen (1)
- Nikhil Nagesh Bhat (1)
- Vasan Bala (1)
- Devashish Makhija (1)
- Payal Kapadia (1)
- Nila Madhab Panda (1)
- Rituparno Ghosh (1)
- Tapan Sinha (1)
- Saket Chaudhary (1)
- Ashwiny Iyer Tiwari (1)
- Advait Chandan (1)
- Nitesh Tiwari (1)
- Amole Gupte (1)
- Devanshu Kumar (1)
- Satyanshu Singh (1)
- Ruchika Oberoi (1)
- Gurvinder Singh (1)
- Shubhashish Bhutiani (1)
- Ajay Bahl (1)
- Faiza Ahmad Khan (1)
- Khushboo Ranka (1)
- Nishtha Jain (1)
Film record Wikipedia — the article linked from each film page · data last revised 9 August 2026 · title, year, director and cast are read from that article; this site keeps no independent print record and does not claim one
Editorial Which films are in the canon at all, and therefore every count on this page — not a measurement · last revised 9 August 2026 · signed by Amit Sharma · the scoring is published in full so the machinery can be argued with, not just the result
