List of Indian documentary filmmakers

This is a list of notable documentary filmmakers from India arranged in alphabetical order.

A

• A. K. Chettiar
• Aarti Shrivastava
• Akanksha Damini Joshi
• Amudhan R P
• Anand Patwardhan
• Anurag Singh
• Anwar Jamal
• Aparna Sanyal
• Arun Chadha
• Ashvin Kumar
• Shah Alam (filmmaker)

B

• Bharat Bala
• Biju Toppo

C

• C. S. Venkiteswaran
• Chalam Bennurkar

D

• Debalina Majumder
• Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj
• Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar
• Dr.Shri Prakash Baranwal
• [Divya Bharathi]

E

• Ezra Mir

F

• Faiza Ahmad Khan
• Farha Khatun

G

• Gauhar Raza
• George Thengummoottil
• Goutam Ghose
• Sonali Gulati

H

• Harjant Gill

J

• Jagat Murari

K

• Kartiki Gonsalvus (Academy Award Winner for best short documentary)
• Kalyan Varma
• K P SASI
• K. Bikram Singh
• K. M. Chaitanya
• Kabir Khan

L

• Lalit Vachani
• Leena Manimekalai

M

• M. F. Husain
• Maga.Tamizh Prabhagaran
• Mainak Bhaumik
• Mazhar Kamran
• Mike Pandey
• Mira Nair
• Meghnath
• Mujibar Rahaman
• Munmun Dalaria

N

• Nakul Singh Sawhney
• Nandan Saxena
• Nisha Pahuja
• Nishtha Jain
• Nirmal Baby Varghese

P

• Pan Nalin
• Payal Kapadia
• Pankaj Butalia
• Paromita Vohra
• Prakash Jha
• Parvez Sharma
• Pavel (film director)
• Pranab Kumar Aich

Q

• Qaushiq Mukherjee

R

• Raja Sen
• Rajesh S. Jala
• Rajesh Touchriver
• Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)
• Ritu Sarin
• Rintu Thomas
• Ramon Chibb
• Rituparno Ghosh
• Ritwik Ghatak
• Renu Negi

S

• Sandesh Kadur
• Shiny Benjamin
• Saba Dewan
• Sanjay Kak
• Sathish Kalathil
• Satyaprakash Upadhyay
• Shashwati Talukdar
• Shriprakash Prakash
• Shaunak Sen
• Shekar Dattatri
• Sonali Gulati
• Sridhar Rangayan
• Stalin K
• Sushmit Ghosh
• Shyam Benegal

T

• Tarun Majumdar

V

• Vidhu Vinod Chopra
• Vijaya Mulay
• Vinay Shukla
• Varrun Sukhraj

References

External links

• The Best Film Directors of Indian Cinema
• Women documentary filmmakers