1

Karan Johar, 48

2

M. Night Shyamalan, 49

3

Farah Khan, 55

4

Rohit Shetty, 47

5

Zoya Akhtar, 47

6

Bala Palanisamy, 54

7

Mahesh Bhatt, 71

8

Sajid Khan, 49

9

S Shankar, 56

10

Aishwarya Dhanush, 38

11

Kamal, 62

12

Aditya Chopra, 49

13

Upendra, 51

14

Anurag Kashyap, 47

15

Ayan Mukerji, 36

16

Rakesh Roshan, 70

17

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992)

18

Nasir Hussain (1931-2002)

19

David Dhawan, 64

20

Anurag Basu, 46

21

Vignesh Shivan, 34

22

Trivikram Srinivas, 48

23

Imtiaz Ali, 49

24

Santhosh Pandit, 47

25

Kabir Khan, 48

26

Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 57

27

Punit Malhotra, 38

28

Kiran Rao, 46

29

S.S. Rajamouli, 46

30

Mani Ratnam, 64

31

Tapan Sinha (1924-2009)

32

Mira Nair, 62

33

Deepa Mehta, 70

34

Rajkumar Hirani, 57

35

Aparna Sen, 74

36

Ram Gopal Varma, 58

37

Shyam Benegal, 85

38

Waris Hussein, 81

39

Ashutosh Gowariker, 56

40

Selvaraghavan, 43

41

Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)

42

Venkat Prabhu, 44

43

Santosh Sivan, 56

44

Buddhadeb Dasgupta, 76

45

Dibakar Banerjee, 51

46

Soundarya Ashwin, 35

47

Meghna Gulzar, 46

48

Tarsem Singh, 59