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Top 100 Directors in India

This curated ranking covers the 100 largest directors in India, ordered by estimated audience size from Rascasse's anonymized search-behavior signals. Out of 221 directors tracked in India, the 100 ranked here account for the largest measured audience reach. Sunny Deol, John Abraham (director) and Christopher Nolan lead the list with a combined estimated audience of 11M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 446k, and the largest, Sunny Deol, reaches around 5.1M people in India. Audience size is the estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with each director, derived from search demand signals. Rankings reflect search-behavior signals collected across India and are refreshed weekly.

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Rank

Position in the Top 100, sorted by audience size from largest to smallest. Updated weekly.

Audience size

Estimated number of unique people in India who actively engage with this audience, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals.

Country share

Share of the global audience that is active in India. A higher value means the audience is more locally concentrated here.

Avg age

Average age in years across the people who engage with this audience in India, derived from anonymized search-behavior signals. A dash means demographic data is not yet available.

Female share

Share of women among the people who engage with this audience in India. 50% is gender-balanced; values above mean female-skewed, below mean male-skewed.

Ranking

Rank Audience Audience size Avg age Female share Subtype
26 Stanley Kubrick 425k 31.4 21.6% Director
27 Stephen Chow 423k 32.4 13.7% Director
28 Vishal Bhardwaj 422k 29.0 48.0% Director
29 Sekhar Kammula 401k 30.1 12.2% Director
30 Bob Odenkirk 380k 34.9 29.3% Director
31 David Dhawan 357k 24.8 33.7% Director
32 Rajkumar Hirani 350k 30.2 46.0% Director
33 Lal (actor) 327k 28.7 12.7% Director
34 Tim Burton 324k 26.7 49.8% Director
35 Justin Baldoni 314k 24.0 65.3% Director
36 Woody Allen 312k 34.3 34.7% Director
37 Tom Ackerley 310k 28.9 28.8% Director
38 Guy Ritchie 309k 30.7 45.4% Director
39 S. J. Surya 290k 22.7 23.3% Director
40 Anurag Basu 277k 24.9 54.0% Director
41 Wes Anderson 263k 26.6 34.2% Director
42 Siddharth Anand 261k 26.0 22.1% Director
43 Vidhu Vinod Chopra 242k 27.3 5.4% Director
44 Hayao Miyazaki 240k 27.1 48.0% Director
45 Raj Chakraborty 238k 30.2 37.9% Director
46 Paul Thomas Anderson 237k 22.9 15.9% Director
47 David Lynch 227k 27.8 28.8% Director
48 M. Night Shyamalan 219k 30.1 34.0% Director
49 Guillermo del Toro 210k 26.2 17.8% Director
50 Puri Jagannadh 206k 28.3 8.2% Director

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Frequently asked questions

How is this Top 100 list compiled?

Rascasse aggregates anonymized search-behavior signals across India and ranks each director by its estimated audience size. Only entries with at least 5 measured entities are listed.

How often is the list updated?

The ranking is refreshed weekly from the latest search-behavior data and re-published as a static page.

What is the largest director in India?

Sunny Deol currently leads with an estimated audience of 5.1M people in India.

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