Assamese Cinema
Bhabendra Nath Saikia | Jahnu Barua
Bengali Cinema
Aparna Sen | Buddhadeb Dasgupta | Gautam Ghose | Mrinal Sen | Quashiq Mukherjee | Ritwik Ghatak | Rituparno Ghosh | Sandip Ray | Satyajit Ray | Sombhu Mitra | Srijit Mukherjee
English Cinema
Aparna Sen | Deepa Mehta | Homi Adajania | Ismail Merchant | Mira Nair | Mithaq Kazimi | Revathi | Sooni Taraporevala | Sonali Gulati | Sridhar Rangayan
Gujarati Cinema
Hindi Cinema
Amit Dutta | Amol Palekar | Anand Gandhi | Anurag Kashyap | Awtar Krishna Kaul | Basu Chaterjee | Bimal Roy | Chetan Anand | Deepa Mehta | Govind Nihalani | Gulzar | Guru Dutt | Hrishikesh Mukherjee | Kalpana Lajmi | Kamal Swaroop | Kantilal Rathod | Ketan Mehta | Khwaja Ahmad Abbas | Kiran Rao | Kishore Sahu | Kumar Shahani | Kundan Shah | M S Sathyu | Mahesh Bhatt | Mani Kaul | Manish Jha | Mrinal Sen | Nagesh Kukunoor | Nandita Das | Onir | Pal Nalin | Prakash Jha | Rabindra Dharmaraj | Rajinder Singh Bedi | Ram Gopal Verma | Saeed Akhtar Mirza | Sai Paranjape | Santosh Sivan | Shyam Benegal | Sudhir Mishra | Tapan Sinha | V Shantaram | Vikramaditya Motwane | Vishal Bhardwaj
Kannada Cinema
B V Karanth | Girish Karnad | Girish Kasaravalli | Puttanna Kanagal
Malayalam Cinema
Adoor Gopalakrishnan | Bharathan | Bijukumar Damodaran | G Aravindan | John Abraham | Murali Nair | P Padmarajan | Priyanandanan | Shaji N Karun | T V Chandran
Manipuri Cinema
Aribam Syam Sharma
Marathi Cinema
Amol Palekar | Gautam Joglekar | Jabbar Patel | Mangesh Hadawale | Nishikanth Kamath | Paresh Mokashi | Sandeep Sawant | Umesh Vinayak Kulkarni
Oriya Cinema
Apoorva Kishore Bir | Biplab Roy Choudhury | Manmohan Mahapatra | Nirad N Mohapatra | Santunu Nishra
Punjabi Cinema
Tamil Cinema
Bala | Balu Mahendra | J Mahendran | K Hariharan | Mani Ratnam | Santosh Sivan
Telugu Cinema
Akkineni Kutumba Rao | B Narsing Rao | K N T Sastry | Pattabhiramy Reddy
