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The 100 most popular 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 224 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 9.6M people. Across all 100 entries the average audience size is 420k, and the largest, Sunny Deol, reaches around 4.8M 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
51 Denis Villeneuve 180k 24.6 29.0% Director
52 Wes Anderson 169k 26.6 34.2% Director
53 Akira Kurosawa 164k 30.4 21.8% Director
54 Park Chan-wook 158k 28.8 16.4% Director
55 Jyothi Krishna 148k 30.0 6.5% Director
56 Kabir Khan (director) 145k 25.8 22.1% Director
57 Sekhar Kammula 139k 30.1 12.2% Director
58 Ridley Scott 138k 29.5 21.2% Director
59 Michael Bay 135k 35.2 13.7% Director
60 Alejandro González Iñárritu 133k 39.7 3.4% Director
61 Luc Besson 131k 35.7 36.6% Director
62 K. S. Ravikumar 130k 30.1 12.7% Director
63 Babu Antony 128k 30.3 3.7% Director
64 Makoto Shinkai 120k 24.7 42.0% Director
65 Srijit Mukherji 114k 31.2 37.5% Director
66 Francis Ford Coppola 112k 28.4 23.9% Director
67 Dasha 110k 25.4 37.2% Director
68 Wong Kar-wai 102k 27.8 27.6% Director
69 James Wan 101k 29.9 31.6% Director
70 Major Ravi 100k 32.8 6.3% Director
71 Danny Boyle 99k 31.7 14.7% Director
72 Hayao Miyazaki 97k 27.1 48.0% Director
73 Darren Aronofsky 94k 37.2 16.4% Director
74 Peter Jackson 93k 29.7 22.0% Director
75 Sam Raimi 92k 24.7 13.8% Director

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Frequently asked questions

How is this list of the most popular directors 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 4.8M people in India.

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