India has many regional film centres, such as Bollywood (Hindi) in Mumbai, Tamil cinema in Chennai, Telugu cinema in Hyderabad, Bengali cinema in Kolkata, and Malayalam cinema in Kochi. Most Indian film directors are known for their work with one regional industry, while many others are active directors of films from multiple industries.
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The following is a list of film directors who have directed films from more than one regional film industry in India. This does not include directors who work in a single industry whose films have been dubbed into other languages.
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| DIRECTOR | Assamese | Bengali | Bhojpuri | English | Gujarati | Hindi | Kannada | Malayalam | Marathi | Oriya | Punjabi | Tamil | Telugu |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aparna Sen | Yes | Yes | Jiten Purohit | Yes | |||||||||
| Ashwani Thakur | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Ajay Phansekar | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Basu Bhattacharya | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Bharathan | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Biju Viswanath | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Bimal Roy | |||||||||||||
| Dinesh Kumar Gupta | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Gautham Menon | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Gurbir Singh Grewal | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| R. Madhesh | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Mahesh Manjrekar | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Mani Ratnam | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| Manish Mokshagundam | |||||||||||||
| Mrinal Sen | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Nishikant Kamat | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| A. R. Murugadoss | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Niddhish Puuzhakkal | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Yogesh Dattatraya Gosavi | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Pankaj Shukla | |||||||||||||
| Partho Sen-Gupta | |||||||||||||
| Priyadarshan | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Radha Bharadwaj | |||||||||||||
| Ram Gopal Varma | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Sanchay Jaiswal | |||||||||||||
| Shaji Karun | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Singeetam Srinivasa Rao | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||
| S. V. Krishna Reddy | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Shyam K. Shinde | |||||||||||||
| Siddique | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Sonali Gulati | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Sridhar Rangayan | |||||||||||||
| Sudhakar Sneh | |||||||||||||
| T. K. Rajeev Kumar | |||||||||||||
| Vijay Singh |