The criteria for selection-
- Most works should be in "Hindi".
- Should have directed at least 3 films.
- The cinematic value and the originality of the body of work.
- The consistency of the works.
- How did their films took Hindi cinema to a new level?
This is the list one of my friends came up with and when he asked me to name the greatest Hindi film directors ever according to the above criteria I too came up with all these names. Only name I missed was that of 'Bimal Roy' as I have not seen his most films but he without any doubt will be always there in any such list once u look at his body of work.
OUR LIST IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER
Ashutosh Gowariker
Bimal Roy
Govind Nihalani
Gulzar
Guru Dutt
Hrishekesh Mukherjee
Ramesh Shippy
Shekhar Kapur
Shyam Benegal
Vijay Anand
Vishal Bharadwaj
Yash Chopra
-Mani Ratnam doesn't feature in this list only because still his best work originally in Tamil.
-Ram Gopal Verma doesn't makes to this list either because of his inconsistency. Though he is very hard to ignore.-
PS- This is not some official survey or neither this list is based on some scientific method. People can feel free to agree or disagree. More you disagree, more fun it will be.
2 comments:
only significant ommission \i can think of is \shekhar \kapoor. \although not too many movies but quality ones masoom, mr india and bandit queen.
in the new directors farhan akhtar and dibankar banarjee ( khosla ka ghosla) are worth mentioning.
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