20th-century Indian screenwriters

Indian filmmaker and writer (1921–1992)

Indian novelist, essayist, and activist

Dhanpat Rai Srivastava (31 July 1880 – 8 October 1936), better known as Munshi Premchand based on his pen name Premchand (), was an Indian writer famous for his modern Hindustani literature.

film director, screenwriter, novelist, and journalist (1914–1987)

Indian film director

Indian director and screenwriter (1934–2024)

Indian Bengali filmmaker and script writer (1925–1976)

Indian filmmaker (born 1972)

Indian film director

Indian film director, screenwriter and producer

Indian writer

Indian film director and actor (1901–1990)

Indian film director (1930–2020)

Indian film director (1914–2008)

Hindi film producer, screenwriter and director (1915–1997)

Indian writer (1914–1977)

Indian film director (1924–2009)

Indian actress and director

Indian film director and producer (born 1952)

Indian author (1908–1994)

Sri Lankan born Indian film director (1939–2014)

film director (1926-2009)

Indian film director

Indian actor (1927-2009)

Indian film director (1931–2002)

film director, actor (1934–2004)

Marathi writer, humourist, actor, dramatist (1919-2000)

Indian film director

Indian film director

Indian writer

Indian film director

Jaddanbai (1 April 1892 – 8 April 1949) was an Indian singer, music composer, dancer, actress, filmmaker, and one of the pioneers of Indian cinema. She along with Bibbo and Saraswati Devi were one of the first female music composers in Indian cinema. She was the mother of actor Anwar Hussain and the well-known Hindi film actress Nargis, and the maternal grandmother of Priya Dutt and Sanjay Dutt.

Indian writer (1898-1969)

Indian film director

Indian filmmaker

Indian actor

Indian film director (1933-2008)

Indian film director (1947-2017)

Indian film director, producer and writer.

Indian theatre personality, film director (1929–2002)

Indian film director

Indian film director

Indian Director

Indian director (1922–1971)

Indian actress, director and writer

Indian actor (1915-1997)

Indian film director

Indian actor

Indian actor and director

Indian poet and writer (1931–1991)

Indian actor

Indian film cinematographer, director

Indian author, director and screenwriter

Indian actor (1898–1971)

Indian film director

Bharathan Parameshwara Menon Palissery (14 November 1946 – 30 July 1998), known mononymously as Bharathan, was an Indian film maker, artist, and art director. Bharathan is noted for being the founder of a new school of film making in Malayalam cinema, along with Padmarajan and K. G. George, in the 1980s, which created films that were widely received while also being critically acclaimed. A train of directors, and screenwriters followed this school onto the 1990s including Sibi Malayil, Kamal, Lohithadas and Jayaraj.

Indian actress and political activist

Indian actor, screenwriter, director, and producer

Malayalam actor (1954-2009)

Indian film director (1925-1991)