1

M. Night Shyamalan, 50

2

Karan Johar, 49

3

Rohit Shetty, 48

4

Farah Khan, 56

5

Zoya Akhtar, 48

6

Bala Palanisamy, 55

7

Anurag Basu, 47

8

Kamal, 63

9

Aishwarya Dhanush, 39

10

Mahesh Bhatt, 72

11

Upendra, 52

12

Anurag Kashyap, 48

13

Sajid Khan, 50

14

Nasir Hussain (1926-2002)

15

David Dhawan, 65

16

S Shankar, 57

17

Rakesh Roshan, 71

18

Aditya Chopra, 50

19

Kabir Khan, 49

20

Satyajit Ray (1921-1992)

21

Kiran Rao, 47

22

Ayan Mukerji, 37

23

Trivikram Srinivas, 49

24

Vignesh Shivan, 35

25

Ashutosh Gowariker, 57

26

Buddhadeb Dasgupta, 77

27

Santhosh Pandit, 48

28

Punit Malhotra, 39

29

S.S. Rajamouli, 47

30

Aravind Arun&Aravind, 33

31

Sanjay Leela Bhansali, 58

32

Imtiaz Ali, 50

33

Mani Ratnam, 65

34

Baldev Raj Chopra (1914-2008)

35

Arin Paul, 41

36

Tapan Sinha (1924-2009)

37

Deepa Mehta, 71

38

Rajkumar Hirani, 58

39

Ram Gopal Varma, 59

40

Lindsay Anderson (1923-1994)

41

M Sasikumar, 45

42

Abhishek Kapoor, 49

43

Mira Nair, 63

44

Aparna Sen, 75

45

Shekhar Kapur, 75

46

Shyam Benegal, 86

47

Venkat Prabhu, 45

48

Pawan Kumar, 38