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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
51 Alfred Hitchcock 198k 30.5 22.9% Director
52 Prakash Jha 197k 28.8 11.2% Director
53 Nasir Hussain 192k 26.7 24.8% Director
54 Denis Villeneuve 176k 24.6 29.0% Director
55 Akira Kurosawa 164k 30.4 21.8% Director
56 Ridley Scott 157k 29.5 21.2% Director
57 Michael Bay 154k 35.2 13.7% Director
58 Jyothi Krishna 152k 30.0 6.5% Director
59 Kabir Khan (director) 150k 25.8 22.1% Director
60 Luc Besson 144k 35.7 36.6% Director
61 Babu Antony 143k 30.3 3.7% Director
62 Park Chan-wook 142k 28.8 16.4% Director
63 Francis Ford Coppola 139k 28.4 23.9% Director
64 Makoto Shinkai 134k 24.7 42.0% Director
65 Dasha 133k 26.1 37.5% Director
66 Srijit Mukherji 132k 31.2 37.5% Director
67 Danny Boyle 129k 31.7 14.7% Director
68 K. S. Ravikumar 129k 30.1 12.7% Director
69 Alejandro González Iñárritu 128k 39.7 3.4% Director
70 Major Ravi 104k 32.8 6.3% Director
71 Peter Jackson 103k 29.7 22.0% Director
72 James Wan 101k 29.9 31.6% Director
73 Darren Aronofsky 97k 37.2 16.4% Director
74 Wong Kar-wai 94k 27.8 27.6% Director
75 Sam Raimi 90k 24.7 13.8% 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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