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	This is a list of notable [[documentary film]]makers from [[India]] arranged in alphabetical order.<ref>http://www.storypick.com/documentaries-by-indian-directors/</ref><ref>http://www.storypick.com/documentaries-on-india/</ref>		{{short description\|None}}
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			This is a list of notable [[documentary film]]makers from [[India]] arranged in alphabetical order.<ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.storypick.com/documentaries-by-indian-directors/\|title = 14 Documentaries by Famous Indian Directors That You Need to Watch Right Now\|date = 22 September 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web\|url=http://www.storypick.com/documentaries-on-india/\|title=15 Documentaries You Have to Watch to Know India Better\|date=9 October 2015}}</ref>
	:{{Main article\|:Category:Indian documentary filmmakers}}		:{{Main article\|:Category:Indian documentary filmmakers}}

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	* [[Amudhan R P]]		* [[Amudhan R P]]
	* [[Anand Patwardhan]]		* [[Anand Patwardhan]]
			* [[Anurag Singh (filmmaker)\|Anurag Singh]]
	* [[Anwar Jamal]]		* [[Anwar Jamal]]
	* [[Aparna Sanyal]]		* [[Aparna Sanyal]]
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	==B==		==B==
			* [[Bharat Bala]]
	* [[Biju Toppo]]		* [[Biju Toppo]]

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	==D==		==D==
	* [[Debalina Majumder]]		* [[Debalina Majumder]]
			* [[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj]]
	* [[Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar]]		* [[Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar]]
	* [[~~Dinesh D'Souza~~]]		* [[Dr.Shri Prakash Baranwal]]
			* [Divya Bharathi]

	==E==		==E==
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	==F==		==F==
	* [[Faiza Ahmad Khan]]		* [[Faiza Ahmad Khan]]
			* [[Farha Khatun]]

	==G==		==G==
	* [[Gauhar Raza]]		* [[Gauhar Raza]]
	* [[~~Gopal Menon~~]]		* [[George Thengummoottil]]
			* [[Goutam Ghose]]
			* [[Sonali Gulati]]

	==H==		==H==
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	==K==		==K==
			* [[Kartiki Gonsalves\|Kartiki Gonsalvus]] ([[Academy Awards\|Academy Award]] Winner for best short documentary)
			* [[Kalyan Varma]]
	* [[KP SASI\|K P SASI]]		* [[KP SASI\|K P SASI]]
	* [[K. Bikram Singh]]		* [[K. Bikram Singh]]
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	*[[Lalit Vachani]]		*[[Lalit Vachani]]
	*[[Leena Manimekalai]]		*[[Leena Manimekalai]]
	*[[Lubna Yusuf]]<ref>https://www.edexlive.com/happening/2019/sep/23/indian-documentary-film-festival-of-bhubaneswar-is-around-the-corner-and-this-is-what-you-can-expect-8202.html</ref>

	==M==		==M==
	* [[M. F. Husain]]		* [[M. F. Husain]]
	* [[Maga.Tamizh Prabhagaran]]		* [[Maga.Tamizh Prabhagaran]]
			* [[Mainak Bhaumik]]
	* [[Mazhar Kamran]]		* [[Mazhar Kamran]]
	* [[Mike Pandey]]		* [[Mike Pandey]]
	* [[Mira Nair]]		* [[Mira Nair]]
	* [[Mrinmoy Bhowmick]]
	* [[Meghnath]]		* [[Meghnath]]
			* [[Mujibar Rahaman]]
			* [[Munmun Dhalaria\|Munmun Dalaria]]

	==N==		==N==
	* [[Nakul Singh Sawhney]]		* [[Nakul Singh Sawhney]]
	* [[Nandan Saxena]]		* [[Nandan Saxena]]
	* [[Nilita Vachani]]
	* [[Nisha Pahuja]]		* [[Nisha Pahuja]]
	* [[Nishtha Jain]]		* [[Nishtha Jain]]
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	==P==		==P==
	* [[Pan Nalin]]		* [[Pan Nalin]]
			* [[Payal Kapadia (filmmaker)\|Payal Kapadia]]
	* [[Pankaj Butalia]]		* [[Pankaj Butalia]]
	* [[Paromita Vohra]]		* [[Paromita Vohra]]
	* [[Prakash Jha]]		* [[Prakash Jha]]
	* [[Parvez Sharma]]		* [[Parvez Sharma]]
	*[[~~Poorva Dinesh~~]]~~<ref>~~[~~https://filmfreeway.com/PoorvaDinesh Poorva Dinesh~~]~~</ref>~~		* [[Pavel (film director)]]
			*[[Pranab Kumar Aich]]

	==Q==		==Q==
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	==R==		==R==
			* [[Raja Sen]]
	* [[Rajesh S. Jala]]		* [[Rajesh S. Jala]]
	* [[Rajesh Touchriver]]		* [[Rajesh Touchriver]]
	* [[Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)]]		* [[Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)]]
	* [[~~Richa Hushing~~]]		* [[Ritu Sarin]]
	*[[~~Ritu Sarin~~]]		* [[Rintu Thomas]]
			* [[Ramon Chibb]]
	* [[Rituparno Ghosh]]		* [[Rituparno Ghosh]]
	* [[Ritwik Ghatak]]		* [[Ritwik Ghatak]]
	* [[~~Rrivu Laha~~]]		* [[Renu Negi]]

	==S==		==S==
			* [[Sandesh Kadur]]
	* [[Shiny Benjamin]]		* [[Shiny Benjamin]]
	* [[Saba Dewan]]		* [[Saba Dewan]]
	* [[Samarth Mahajan]]
	* [[Sanjay Kak]]		* [[Sanjay Kak]]
	* [[Sathish Kalathil]]		* [[Sathish Kalathil]]
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	* [[Shashwati Talukdar]]		* [[Shashwati Talukdar]]
	* [[Shriprakash Prakash]]		* [[Shriprakash Prakash]]
			* [[Shaunak Sen]]
			* [[Shekar Dattatri]]
	* [[Sonali Gulati]]		* [[Sonali Gulati]]
	* [[Sridhar Rangayan]]		* [[Sridhar Rangayan]]
	* [[Stalin K]]		* [[Stalin K]]
			* [[Sushmit Ghosh]]
	* [[Shyam Benegal]]		* [[Shyam Benegal]]
	* [[~~Soumitra Dey~~]]
			==T==
			* [[Tarun Majumdar]]

	==V==		==V==
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	* [[Vijaya Mulay]]		* [[Vijaya Mulay]]
	* [[Vinay Shukla]]		* [[Vinay Shukla]]
			* [[Varrun Sukhraj]]

	==References==		==References==
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	==External links==		==External links==
	* [https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050534344/ The Best Film Directors of Indian Cinema]		* [https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050534344/ The Best Film Directors of Indian Cinema]
	* [https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/02/08/india-through-the-lens-of-documentary-filmmakers/ India, Through the Lens of Documentary Films]
	* [https://asiatimes.com/article/women-documentary-filmmakers-provide-rare-insight-into-indian-society/ Women documentary filmmakers]		* [https://asiatimes.com/article/women-documentary-filmmakers-provide-rare-insight-into-indian-society/ Women documentary filmmakers]
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This is a list of notable [[documentary film]]makers from [[India]] arranged in alphabetical order.<ref>http://www.storypick.com/documentaries-by-indian-directors/</ref><ref>http://www.storypick.com/documentaries-on-india/</ref>
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==A==
* [[A. K. Chettiar]]
* [[Aarti Shrivastava]]
* [[Akanksha Damini Joshi]]
* [[Amudhan R P]]
* [[Anand Patwardhan]]
* [[Anwar Jamal]]
* [[Aparna Sanyal]]
* [[Arun Chadha]]
* [[Ashvin Kumar]]
* [[Shah Alam (filmmaker)]]

==B==
* [[Biju Toppo]]

==C==
* [[C. S. Venkiteswaran]]
* [[Chalam Bennurkar]]

==D==
* [[Debalina Majumder]]
* [[Dinanath Gopal Tendulkar]]
* [[Dinesh D'Souza]]

==E==
* [[Ezra Mir]]

==F==
* [[Faiza Ahmad Khan]]

==G==
* [[Gauhar Raza]]
* [[Gopal Menon]]

==H==
* [[Harjant Gill]]

==J==
* [[Jagat Murari]]

==K==
* [[KP SASI|K P SASI]]
* [[K. Bikram Singh]]
* [[K. M. Chaitanya]]
* [[Kabir Khan (director)|Kabir Khan]]

==L==
*[[Lalit Vachani]]
*[[Leena Manimekalai]]
*[[Lubna Yusuf]]<ref>https://www.edexlive.com/happening/2019/sep/23/indian-documentary-film-festival-of-bhubaneswar-is-around-the-corner-and-this-is-what-you-can-expect-8202.html</ref>

==M==
* [[M. F. Husain]]
* [[Maga.Tamizh Prabhagaran]]
* [[Mazhar Kamran]]
* [[Mike Pandey]]
* [[Mira Nair]]
* [[Mrinmoy Bhowmick]]
* [[Meghnath]]

==N==
* [[Nakul Singh Sawhney]]
* [[Nandan Saxena]]
* [[Nilita Vachani]]
* [[Nisha Pahuja]]
* [[Nishtha Jain]]
* [[Nirmal Baby Varghese]]

==P==
* [[Pan Nalin]]
* [[Pankaj Butalia]]
* [[Paromita Vohra]]
* [[Prakash Jha]]
* [[Parvez Sharma]]
*[[Poorva Dinesh]]<ref>[https://filmfreeway.com/PoorvaDinesh Poorva Dinesh]</ref>

==Q==
* [[Qaushiq Mukherjee]]

==R==
* [[Rajesh S. Jala]]
* [[Rajesh Touchriver]]
* [[Rakesh Sharma (filmmaker)]]
* [[Richa Hushing]]
*[[Ritu Sarin]]
* [[Rituparno Ghosh]]
* [[Ritwik Ghatak]]
* [[Rrivu Laha]]

==S==
* [[Shiny Benjamin]]
* [[Saba Dewan]]
* [[Samarth Mahajan]]
* [[Sanjay Kak]]
* [[Sathish Kalathil]]
*[[Satyaprakash Upadhyay]]
* [[Shashwati Talukdar]]
* [[Shriprakash Prakash]]
* [[Sonali Gulati]]
* [[Sridhar Rangayan]]
* [[Stalin K]]
* [[Shyam Benegal]]
* [[Soumitra Dey]]

==V==
* [[Vidhu Vinod Chopra]]
* [[Vijaya Mulay]]
* [[Vinay Shukla]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [https://www.imdb.com/list/ls050534344/ The Best Film Directors of Indian Cinema]
* [https://blogs.wsj.com/indiarealtime/2011/02/08/india-through-the-lens-of-documentary-filmmakers/ India, Through the Lens of Documentary Films]
* [https://asiatimes.com/article/women-documentary-filmmakers-provide-rare-insight-into-indian-society/ Women documentary filmmakers]
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[[Category:Lists of Indian film directors|documentary]]
[[Category:Documentary film-related lists|Indian filmmakers]]

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