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India has many regional film centres, such as Bollywood (Hindi) in Mumbai, Telugu cinema (Tollywood) in Hyderabad, Marathi cinema in Pune, Tamil cinema in Chennai, Malayalam cinema in Kochi, Kannada cinema in Bangalore, Odia Cinema in Bhubaneswar, Assamese cinema in Guwahati, Punjabi cinema in Mohali and Bengali cinema (Tollywood) in Kolkata. Most film directors are known for their work with one regional industry, while many others are active directors of films from multiple industries.
Parallel Cinema is otherwise known as "Art films" cinema, and is known for its serious and realistic films with real-life situations. In the 1960s and 1970s, the Indian government financed a number of such films, on Indian themes. Many of the directors were graduates of the Film and Television Institute of India, Pune. Ritwik Ghatak was a professor at the institute and a well-known director in his own right. The best-known Indian "neo-realist" is Satyajit Ray.
The following is a list of film directors who have directed films from more than one regional film industry in India. This does not include directors who work in a single industry whose films have been dubbed into other languages.
| DIRECTOR | Assamese | Bengali | Bhojpuri | English | Gujarati | Hindi | Kannada | Malayalam | Marathi | Maithili | Odia | Punjabi | Tamil | Telugu |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Ram Gopal Varma | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| K. Raghavendra Rao | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Dasari Narayana Rao | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| S. S. Rajamouli | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Mrinal Sen | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Puri Jagannadh | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| S. Shankar | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Bharathan | Yes | |||||||||||||
| Basu Bhattacharya | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Gautham Vasudev Menon | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Girish Karnad | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Girish Kasaravalli | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Mani Ratnam | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Rituparno Ghosh | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Sumitra Bhave–Sunil Sukthankar | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| AR Murugadoss | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Puttanna Kanagal | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Satish Rajwade | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Sachin Kundalkar | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Shonali Bose | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Prasanta Nanda | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Hara Patnaik | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Siddique | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||||
| Sunil Kumar Desai | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Mahesh Manjrekar | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Upendra | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||
| Nagraj Manjule | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Om Raut | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Anup Bhandari | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |||||||||
| Laxman Utekar | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Srijit Mukherji | Yes | Yes | ||||||||||||
| Shaji N Karun | Yes | Yes |
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