Superlatives

1970s

• 1970 Hrishikesh Mukherjee
  Hrishikesh Mukherjee
  Hrishikesh Mukherjee ) was a famous Indian film director known for a number of films, including Satyakam, Chupke Chupke, Anupama, Anand, Abhimaan, Guddi, Gol Maal, Aashirwad, Bawarchi, and Namak Haraam.Popularly known as Hrishi-da, he directed 42 films during his career spanning over four decades,...
  
   - Anokhi Raat
  Anokhi Raat
  Anokhi Raat is a 1968 Hindi film produced by L. B. Lachman and L. B. Thakur and directed by Asit Sen. The film stars Sanjeev Kumar, Zaheeda Hussain, Aruna Irani, Keshto Mukherjee and Parikshat Sahni. It has music by Salil Choudhary and Roshan...
  
  

• 1971 Vijay Anand - Johny Mera Naam
  Johny Mera Naam
  Johny Mera Naam is a 1970 Indian Hindi movie. Directed by Vijay Anand, it stars the director's brother, Dev Anand and Pran in the role of a pair of brothers separated in childhood. Hema Malini, Jeevan, Premnath, I. S. Johar and Iftekhar also star in this movie. It is considered a Dev Anand...
  
  

• 1972 Basu Chatterjee
  Basu Chatterjee
  Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....
  
   - Sara Akash
  Sara Akash
  -Plot:Agra-based collegian, Samar Thakur, lives in a joint family consisting of his dad, mom, brother Amar and his wife; as well as a married sister, Munni, estranged from her husband. His parents force him to marry Prabha, a matriculate, much to his chagrin as this interferes with his future plans...
  
  

• 1973 Arvind Mukherjee - Amar Prem
  Amar Prem
  Amar Prem is a 1971 Hindi film directed by Shakti Samanta, based on a story by Bibhutibhushan Bandopadhyay and starring Sharmila Tagore, Rajesh Khanna, Vinod Mehra and Madan Puri....
  
  

• 1974 Salim-Javed
  Salim-Javed
  Salim-Javed were a scriptwriter duo who wrote a number of commercially and critically successful Hindi films in the 1970s and early 1980s. The duo, composed of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, made the writer's role popular with their names appearing in the posters of the films, and in some films they...
  
   - Zanjeer
  Zanjeer
  Zanjeer , is a 1973 Hindi film directed and produced by Prakash Mehra; starring Amitabh Bachchan, Jaya Bachchan, Pran, Ajit and Bindu. The movie changed the trend from romantic films to action films and pioneered Amitabh's new image of a brooding but explosive person who fights back when cornered...
  
  

• 1975 Shama Zaidi
  Shama Zaidi
  Shama Zaidi is an Indian screenwriter, costume designer, art director, theatre person, art critic, and documentary filmmaker.-Biography:...
  
  , Kaifi Azmi
  Kaifi Azmi
  Kaifi Azmi was an Indian Urdu poet. He is considered to be one the greatest Urdu poets of 20th century. Together with Pirzada Qasim, Jon Eliya and many others he participated in many memorable mushairas of 20th century.-Early life:...
  
   - Garm Hava

• 1976 Salim-Javed
  Salim-Javed
  Salim-Javed were a scriptwriter duo who wrote a number of commercially and critically successful Hindi films in the 1970s and early 1980s. The duo, composed of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, made the writer's role popular with their names appearing in the posters of the films, and in some films they...
  
   - Deewaar

• 1977 Basu Chatterjee
  Basu Chatterjee
  Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....
  
   - Chhoti Si Baat
  Chhoti Si Baat
  Chhoti Si Baat is a 1975 Hindi romantic comedy film directed by Basu Chatterjee. The film's title means "Small Talk" in Hindi. Considered one of the best Hindi comedy films of the 1970s, it is a nostalgic favourite for its quirky take on pre-hypercongestion Bombay...
  
  

• 1978 Lekh Tandon
  Lekh Tandon
  Lekh Tandon has directed numerous Bollywood movies and Indian TV Serials. Recently he has acted in few movies such as Swades. He is brother of Urdu playwright Yograj Tandon.-Biography:...
  
  , Vrajendra Kaur, Madhusudan Kalekar - Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye
  Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye
  Dulhan Wahi Jo Piya Man Bhaye is a 1977 Hindi movie. Produced by Tarachand Barjatya for Rajshri, the film is directed by Lekh Tandon. The film stars Madan Puri, Prem Krishen, Rameshwari, Jagdeep and Iftekhar. It was a surprise hit of the year and gave Madan Puri his most satisfactory film role...
  
  

• 1979 Kamleshwar
  Kamleshwar
  Kamleshwar was a prominent 20th-century Hindi writer, and script and dialogue writer for Hindi cinema and television...
  
   - Pati Patni Aur Woh
  Pati Patni Aur Woh
  Pati Patni Aur Woh is a 1978 Hindi movie directed by B. R. Chopra. The film stars Sanjeev Kumar, Vidya Sinha, Ranjeeta, and in guest appearances Rishi Kapoor, Neetu Singh and Parveen Babi.-Summary:...
  
  

1980s

• 1980 Girish Karnad
  Girish Karnad
  Girish Raghunath Karnad is a contemporary writer, playwright, screenwriter, actor and movie director in Kannada language...
  
  , B.V. Karanth - Godhuli
  Godhuli
  Godhuli is a 1977 movie by Girish Karnad, starring Kulbhushan Kharbanda, Om Puri and Naseeruddin Shah. It won the best screenplay award at the 27th Filmfare Awards....
  
  

• 1981 Vijay Thendular - Aakrosh
  Aakrosh (1980 film)
  Aakrosh is a 1980 Hindi arthouse film directed by auteur Govind Nihalani and written by renowned Marathi playwright Vijay Tendulkar.The film starred Naseeruddin Shah, Om Puri and Amrish Puri in lead roles and went to win 1980 National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi and several Filmfare...
  
  

• 1982 K. Balachander
  K. Balachander
  K. Balachander is an Indian film director, screenwriter and producer. Balachander is known for his distinct film-making style. His films analyse unusual or complicated interpersonal relationships and social themes. He has directed nearly 80 films and has worked in 100 films either as director or...
  
   - Ek Duje Ke Liye

• 1983 Salim-Javed
  Salim-Javed
  Salim-Javed were a scriptwriter duo who wrote a number of commercially and critically successful Hindi films in the 1970s and early 1980s. The duo, composed of Salim Khan and Javed Akhtar, made the writer's role popular with their names appearing in the posters of the films, and in some films they...
  
   - Shakti
  Shakti (1982 film)
  Shakti is a 1982 Bollywood film directed by Ramesh Sippy and starring Dilip Kumar, Amitabh Bachchan, Raakhee, Smita Patil and Amrish Puri. It was written by the writing duo Salim-Javed...
  
  

• 1984 Vijay Thendular - Ardh Satya
  Ardh Satya
  Ardh Satya is a 1983 film directed by Govind Nihalani, his second offering after another angst-ridden movie Aakrosh . The screenplay of both movies was by Vijay Tendulkar, the noted Marathi playwright; this one was based on the short story, 'Surya', by D.A...
  
  

• 1985 Mrinal Sen
  Mrinal Sen
  Mrinal Sen is a Bengali Indian filmmaker. He was born on 14 May 1923, in the town of Faridpur, now in Bangladesh in a Hindu family. After finishing his high school there, he left home to come to Calcutta as a student and studied physics at the well-known Scottish Church College and at the...
  
   - Khandhar
  Khandhar
  Khandahar is a 1984 Hindi movie directed by Mrinal Sen, based on a Bengali novel, Telenapota Abishkar by Premendra Mitra. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Pankaj Kapoor...
  
  

• 1986 Goutam Ghose, Partha Banerjee - Paar
  Paar (film)
  Paar is a 1984 Hindi movie directed by Goutam Ghose. The film stars Shabana Azmi, Naseeruddin Shah and Om Puri. Naseeruddin Shah won a Volpi Cup for his role as Naurangia.- Plot :...
  
  

• 1989 Nasir Hussain
  Nasir Hussain
  Nasir Husain was an Indian film producer, director and screenwriter.-Early career:Husain first worked with A. R. Kardar when he joined Filmistan as a writer in 1948. The famous films he wrote for Filmistan include Anarkali , Munimjee , and Paying Guest...
  
   - Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
  Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak
  Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak or QSQT is a 1988 Indian Bollywood film written by Nasir Hussain and directed by his son Mansoor Khan. The film starred Hussain's nephew, Aamir Khan, along with Juhi Chawla in their first major roles. Upon release, the film became a box office hit and shot its leading stars...
  
  

1990s

• 1990 Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
  Shiv Kumar Subramaniam
  Shiv Kumar Subramaniam is an Indian actor & screenwriter who is known for his role as the leading industrial tycoon I. M. Virani in the famous Indian television serial Mukti Bandhan that goes on air in the Colours channel...
  
   - Parinda
  Parinda
  Parinda is an award-winning 1989 Indian film directed and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. Parinda is considered by many to be the turning point in reality in Hindi cinema, as the theme of the film discusses the real life of Indian underworld gangsters and the general life of residents in the city...
  
  

• 1991 Basu Chatterjee
  Basu Chatterjee
  Basu Chatterjee is an Indian film director. His films are very similar to those of Hrishikesh Mukherjee. Like Mukherjee, he built his plots on middle-class lives.He was born in Ajmer, Rajasthan, India....
  
   - Kamla Ki Maut

• 1992 Tapan Sinha
  Tapan Sinha
  Tapan Sinha , was a Indian film director. He was arguably the most uncompromising filmmaker outside the orbit of Parallel Cinema.-Personal life and background:...
  
   - Ek Doctor Ki Maut
  Ek Doctor Ki Maut
  Ek Doctor Ki Maut is a 1990 award winning film by noted Bengali director Tapan Sinha, which depicts the ostracism, bureaucratic negligence, reprimand and insult of a doctor and his research, instead of recognition...
  
  

• 1993 Aziz Mirza
  Aziz Mirza
  Aziz Mirza is an Indian film director and writer.-Biography:Mirza started his career in 1985 when he joined his brother Saeed Mirza and veteran director Kundan Shah to set a new production company called Iskra....
  
  , Manoj Lalwani - Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman
  Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman
  Raju Ban Gaya Gentleman is a 1992 Bollywood movie directed by Aziz Mirza starring Shahrukh Khan, Juhi Chawla, Amrita Singh and Nana Patekar. Khan plays Raj Mathur, a young engineering graduate from Darjeeling who comes to Bombay hoping to become an important engineer...
  
  

• 1994 Robin Bhatt
  Robin Bhatt
  Robin Bhatt is known as one of the most successful writers in Bollywood. He is the brother of Mahesh Bhatt. He has written many films and was nominated 3 times and won award for Baazigar. His debut film as writer was Aashiqui, which proved to be a hit film...
  
  , Javed Siddiqui
  Javed Siddiqui
  Javed Siddiqui is a Hindi and Urdu screenwriter, dialogue writer and playwright from India. He has written over 50 storylines, screenplays and dialogues....
  
  , Akash Khurana - Baazigar
  Baazigar
  Baazigar is a 1993 Indian Hindi film directed by Abbas-Mustan. Inspired by the novel A Kiss Before Dying, it is a contemporary thriller about a young man who stops at nothing to get what he wants. The film shocked its Indian audience with an unexpected violation of the standard Bollywood formula,...
  
  

• 1995 Sooraj R. Barjatya
  Sooraj R. Barjatya
  Sooraj R. Barjatya is an Indian Hindi film director. His films are produced under the Rajshri Productions banner which was first founded in 1947 by his late grandfather Tarachand Barjatya. As a director he is most known for his early hits, Maine Pyar Kiya and Hum Aapke Hain Kaun .-Early...
  
   - Hum Aapke Hain Kaun...!

• 1996 Aditya Chopra
  Aditya Chopra
  Aditya Chopra is an Indian film producer, screenwriter and director. He is most known for directing his only three films Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , Mohabbatein , and Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi...
  
   - Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
  Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge
  Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge , also known as DDLJ, is a Hindi language film released on 20 October 1995. A romantic comedy, the film marked the directorial debut of Aditya Chopra, and stars Shahrukh Khan and Kajol...
  
  

• 1997 Rajkumar Santoshi
  Rajkumar Santoshi
  Rajkumar Santoshi is a Filmfare award-winning Indian film director and producer of Hindi films. He is the son of producer-director P.L. Santoshi.-Career:...
  
   - Ghatak: Lethal
  Ghatak: Lethal
  Ghatak: Lethal is a 1996 Bollywood action film directed by Rajkumar Santoshi. The film stars Sunny Deol, Meenakshi Sheshadri and Danny Denzongpa in pivotal roles. This was Meenakshi Sheshadari's last movie till date.-Plot:...
  
  

• 1998 Subhash Ghai
  Subhash Ghai
  Subhash Ghai is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter. His most notable films include Kalicharan ,Karz , Hero , Meri Jung , Karma ,Ram Lakhan ,Saudagar , Khalnayak , Pardes and Taal...
  
   - Pardes

• 1999 Karan Johar
  Karan Johar
  Karan Johar is an Indian film director, producer, screenwriter and Television host. He is the son of Hiroo Johar and Yash Johar. He is one of the most successful filmmakers in Bollywood. He is most known for directing and producing some of Bollywood's highest grossing films in India and the...
  
   - Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
  Kuch Kuch Hota Hai
  Kuch Kuch Hota Hai is a Hindi romantic comedy film, released in India and the United Kingdom on 16 October 1998. The film was written and directed by the debuting Karan Johar and stars the popular on-screen pair of Shahrukh Khan and Kajol in their fourth movie together...
  
  

2000s

• 2000 John Matthew Matthan
  John Matthew Matthan
  - Early life :John started his career as an assistant director on the epic movie Gandhi, directed by Sir Richard Attenborough. Govind Nihlani was also working on the same film. John went on to assist Govind Nihlani on several of his films before starting out on his own as an ad-film maker...
  
   - Sarfarosh
  Sarfarosh
  Sarfarosh was a critically and commercially successful action film, released in 1999. It was directed by John Matthew Matthan and starred Aamir Khan, Sonali Bendre and Naseeruddin Shah. John started working on Sarfarosh in 1992...
  
  

• 2001 Honey Irani
  Honey Irani
  -Personal life and background:Honey Irani was born into a Zoroastrian family on January 17, 1950. She was married to Javed Akhtar. Although the marriage ended in divorce, it produced two children, son Farhan Akhtar and daughter Zoya Akhtar. Both her children are critically acclaimed Indian...
  
  , Ravi Kapoor - Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
  Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
  Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai is a 2000 Bollywood film directed by Rakesh Roshan. The film marks the debut of his son Hrithik Roshan and also the debut of Ameesha Patel. Hrithik played a double role in the film, and became an overnight superstar in India.Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai won many awards, including...
  
  

• 2002 Farhan Akhtar
  Farhan Akhtar
  Farhan Akhtar is an Indian filmmaker, script writer, actor, playback singer, lyricist, film producer in Hindi cinema and a television host.His directorial debut Dil Chahta Hai won a National Film Award for Best Feature Film in Hindi...
  
   - Dil Chahta Hai
  Dil Chahta Hai
  Dil Chahta Hai is a 2001 Indian film starring Aamir Khan, Saif Ali Khan, Akshaye Khanna, Preity Zinta, Sonali Kulkarni, and Dimple Kapadia...
  
  

• 2003 Mani Ratnam
  Mani Ratnam
  Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...
  
   - Saathiya

• 2004 Rajkumar Hirani
  Rajkumar Hirani
  Rajkumar Hirani is a National Award and Filmfare Award winning Indian director, screenwriter and film editor of Hindi films, best known for the films Munna Bhai MBBS , Lage Raho Munnabhai and 3 Idiots , considered the highest-grossing Hindi film by distributor-share.-Early life and...
  
  , Vidhu Vinod Chopra
  Vidhu Vinod Chopra
  Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...
  
  , Lajan Joseph - Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
  Munna Bhai M.B.B.S.
  Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. is a 2003 Indian comedy directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. The story involves protagonist Munna Bhai , a goon, going to medical school. He is helped by his sidekick, Circuit . It is the first film in the popular Munna Bhai series...
  
  

• 2005 Mani Ratnam
  Mani Ratnam
  Mani Ratnam is an Indian filmmaker, screenwriter and producer. He made his directorial debut with the Kannada film Pallavi Anu Pallavi starring Anil Kapoor in 1983...
  
   - Yuva
  Yuva
  Yuva , originally titled Howrah Bridge is a feature film directed by Indian director Mani Ratnam and released in 2004. Simultaneously made in Hindi and Tamil , the prime objective of the movie was to motivate educated Indian youths to enter politics.The film tells the stories of three young men...
  
  

• 2006 Nina Arora, Manoj Tyagi
  Manoj Tyagi
  Manoj Tyagi is an Indian screenwriter and film director in the Hindi cinema. He had won the National Film Award for Best Screenplay twice, for Page 3 and Apaharan , apart from Filmfare Award for Best Screenplay for Page 3, which won the National Film Award for Best Feature Film...
  
   - Page 3
  Page 3 (film)
  Page 3 is a 2005 Indian film directed by Madhur Bhandarkar about the Page 3 Culture and media in the city of Mumbai. It stars Konkona Sen Sharma, Atul Kulkarni, Sandhya Mridul, Tara Sharma, Anju Mahendru, and Boman Irani...
  
  

• 2007 Jaideep Sahni
  Jaideep Sahni
  Jaideep Sahni is an Indian screenwriter, songwriter and producer, most known for screenplays of films like, Company , Khosla Ka Ghosla and Chak De! India . He is currently on contract with Yash Raj Films...
  
   - Khosla Ka Ghosla
  Khosla Ka Ghosla
  Khosla Ka Ghosla is a 2006 Indian comedy drama film directed by Dibakar Banerjee in his directorial debut. It stars Anupam Kher and Boman Irani. Though made on a small budget this film managed to do very well at the box office...
  
  
  • Anurag Basu
    Anurag Basu
    Anurag Basu is an Indian film director and writer, known for directing films that tackle the themes of dark passion and adultery like Life in a... Metro, Gangster and Murder. Basu was nominated in the Best Director category at the 53rd Filmfare Awards in 2008 for Life in a... Metro. He has also...
    
     - Gangster
  • Homi Adajania
    Homi Adajania
    Homi Adajania is an Indian film director. His directorial debut Being Cyrus was an off-beat English-Language psychological drama film. Touted as one of the brilliant emerging directors coming from India, Homi Adajania was also the co-author of Being Cyrus, which was his debut as a director. He has...
    
    , Kersi Khambatta - Being Cyrus
    Being Cyrus
    Being Cyrus is an English language Indian film directed by Homi Adajania and released in 2006. It is a psychological drama revolving around a dysfunctional Parsi family...
    
    
  • Rajkumar Hirani
    Rajkumar Hirani
    Rajkumar Hirani is a National Award and Filmfare Award winning Indian director, screenwriter and film editor of Hindi films, best known for the films Munna Bhai MBBS , Lage Raho Munnabhai and 3 Idiots , considered the highest-grossing Hindi film by distributor-share.-Early life and...
    
    , Abhijat Joshi
    Abhijat Joshi
    Abhijat Joshi is an Indian academic and screenwriter particularly known for his work with Vinod Chopra Productions, as the screenwriter for Lage Raho Munna Bhai and 3 Idiots...
    
    , Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Vidhu Vinod Chopra
    Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...
    
     - Lage Raho Munna Bhai
    Lage Raho Munna Bhai
    Lage Raho Munna Bhai is a 2006 Indian musical comedy film directed by Rajkumar Hirani and produced by Vidhu Vinod Chopra. It is the second film in the popular Munna Bhai series of Bollywood. Sanjay Dutt stars in this film as Munna Bhai, a Mumbai underworld don, who begins to see the spirit of...
    
    
  • Rensil D'Silva, Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
    Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra
    Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra is an Indian filmmaker and screenwriter. He is best known for writing and directing Rang De Basanti , for which he won Best Director awards at the 2006 Filmfare Awards and National Film Awards and received a BAFTA Award nomination for Best Foreign Language Film...
    
     - Rang De Basanti
    Rang De Basanti
    Rang De Basanti is a 2006 Indian drama film written and directed by Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra. It features an ensemble cast comprising Aamir Khan, Soha Ali Khan, Madhavan, Kunal Kapoor, Siddharth Narayan, Sharman Joshi, Atul Kulkarni and British actress Alice Patten in the lead roles...
    
    

• 2008 Anurag Basu
  Anurag Basu
  Anurag Basu is an Indian film director and writer, known for directing films that tackle the themes of dark passion and adultery like Life in a... Metro, Gangster and Murder. Basu was nominated in the Best Director category at the 53rd Filmfare Awards in 2008 for Life in a... Metro. He has also...
  
   - Life In A... Metro
  Life in a... Metro
  Life in a... Metro is a 2007 Hindi film directed by Anurag Basu, set in Mumbai, and starring Dharmendra, Nafisa Ali, Shilpa Shetty, Shiney Ahuja, Kay Kay Menon, Kangana Ranaut, Sharman Joshi, Konkona Sen Sharma and Irrfan Khan in pivotal roles. The music is composed by Pritam with lyrics by Sayeed...
  
  
  • Amol Gupte - Taare Zameen Par
    Taare Zameen Par
    Taare Zameen Par is a 2007 Bollywood drama film directed by Aamir Khan, written by Amole Gupte, and produced by Aamir Khan Productions. Gupte initially developed the idea with his wife Deepa Bhatia, who served as the film's editor...
    
    
  • Jaideep Sahni
    Jaideep Sahni
    Jaideep Sahni is an Indian screenwriter, songwriter and producer, most known for screenplays of films like, Company , Khosla Ka Ghosla and Chak De! India . He is currently on contract with Yash Raj Films...
    
     - Chak De! India
  • Rahul Dholakia
    Rahul Dholakia
    Rahul Dholakia is an Indian film director-producer-screenwriter, most known for his National Film Award winning film, Parzania , prior to which he also made documentaries like Teenage Parents and New York Taxi Drivers.-Early life and education:Born in Mumbai, to Raksha and Parry Dholakia, an...
    
    , David N. Donihue
    David N. Donihue
    David N. Donihue is an American writer, director and actor.-Early years:Donihue was born in rural Eastern Washington, raised blocks away from The Green River Killer, and was a resident of Auburn, Washington. He started writing plays that were performed for 45 cents in his back yard and local parks...
    
     - Parzania
    Parzania
    Parzania is a 2007 Indian drama film co-written and directed by Rahul Dholakia; David N. Donihue is the other co-writer. The film featured Naseeruddin Shah and Sarika in the lead roles, while Corin Nemec and Raj Zutshi played supporting roles...
    
    
  • Sriram Raghavan
    Sriram Raghavan
    Sriram Raghavan is an Indian film director and screen writer. He is notable for producing a 45-minute documentary on Indian serial killer Raman Raghav and 2004 Hindi feature film Ek Hasina Thi produced by Ram Gopal Varma, starring Urmila Matondkar and Saif Ali Khan. His second feature film was...
    
     - Johnny Gaddaar
    Johnny Gaddaar
    Johnny Gaddaar , is a 2007 Indian crime thriller noir film written and directed by Sriram Raghavan; produced under the banner Adlabs...
    
    

• 2009 Yogendra Vinayak Joshi, Upendra Sidhaye
  Upendra Sidhaye
  Upendra Sidhaye , born and brought up in Pune, is a screenplay and story writer in Indian Film industry . Upendra won honors and admiration with his debut film Mumbai Meri Jaan. Upendra and Yogesh Vinayak Joshi collectively received the Filmfare Awards and CineBlitz award of best screenplay for...
  
   - Mumbai Meri Jaan
  • Abbas Tyrewala
    Abbas Tyrewala
    Abbas Tyrewala is an Hindi film storywriter, screenwriter, dialogue writer and director. After making his mark as a screenwriter and dialogue writer in early 2000s, with award winning films like Maqbool , Munnabhai M.B.B.S. , he made his debut as a director with a breezy romantic comedy, Jaane Tu...
    
     - Jaane Tu... Ya Jaane Na
  • Abhishek Kapoor
    Abhishek Kapoor
    Abhishek Kapoor is an Indian film actor, writer and director.He started his career as an actor in Uff!Yeh Mohabbat in 1996, opposite Twinkle Khanna, directed by Vipin Handa, and after two more films, he made his directorial début with Aryan in 2006, which despite getting him critical acclaim for...
    
    , Pubali Chaudhary - Rock On!!
  • Ajay Monga
    Ajay Monga
    Ajay Monga is an Indian scriptwriter and film director. He has written films like Corporate which starred Bipasha Basu and Kay Kay Menon and Fashion both directed by Madhur Bhandarkar....
    
    , Anuradha Tiwari, Madhur Bhandarkar
    Madhur Bhandarkar
    Madhur Bhandarkar is a National Award-winning Indian film director, script writer, and producer. He is best known for his films such as Chandni Bar , Page 3 , Traffic Signal , and Fashion...
    
     - Fashion
    Fashion (film)
    Fashion is a 2008 Indian film co-produced, co-written, and directed by Madhur Bhandarkar. The film has a massive star cast which includes Priyanka Chopra, Kangana Ranaut and newcomers Mugdha Godse and Arjan Bajwa. Based on the dark side of the world of fashion, the movie depicts it through the...
    
    
  • Shiraz Ahmed - Race

2010s

• 2010 Rajkumar Hirani
  Rajkumar Hirani
  Rajkumar Hirani is a National Award and Filmfare Award winning Indian director, screenwriter and film editor of Hindi films, best known for the films Munna Bhai MBBS , Lage Raho Munnabhai and 3 Idiots , considered the highest-grossing Hindi film by distributor-share.-Early life and...
  
  , Vidhu Vinod Chopra
  Vidhu Vinod Chopra
  Vidhu Vinod Chopra is an Indian director and producer. Chopra is the head of his own company, Vinod Chopra Productions, and is particularly known for producing the Munna Bhai films and 3 Idiots.-Early life:Born in a Punjabi family of Kashmir,...
  
  , Abhijat Joshi
  Abhijat Joshi
  Abhijat Joshi is an Indian academic and screenwriter particularly known for his work with Vinod Chopra Productions, as the screenwriter for Lage Raho Munna Bhai and 3 Idiots...
  
   - 3 Idiots
  • Love Aaj Kal
    Imtiaz Ali (director)
    Imtiaz Ali is an Indian film director, actor and writer. His 2007 film Jab We Met was a huge success in India. His 2009 film Love Aaj Kal was a bigger success and was declared a super-hit by Box Office India.His recent movie Rockstar has been declared successful at the box office.- Early life...
    
     - Love Aaj Kal
    Love Aaj Kal
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