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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
76 Anees Bazmee 84k 26.0 12.1% Director
77 Spike Lee 82k 25.7 46.8% Director
78 Robert Zemeckis 82k 34.5 5.9% Director
79 Sidney Lumet 78k 29.9 16.3% Director
80 Russo brothers 77k 31.9 26.5% Director
81 Shoojit Sircar 76k 25.2 19.0% Director
82 Anjali Menon 70k 28.3 23.4% Director
83 Aashiq Abu 68k 29.4 17.9% Director
84 Lal Jose 67k 30.3 27.2% Director
85 Kathryn Bigelow 64k 35.3 26.4% Director
86 Vikramaditya Motwane 63k 25.1 16.7% Director
87 Eli Roth 60k 37.1 17.1% Director
88 Edgar Wright 59k 30.6 32.1% Director
89 Anjan Dutt 56k 28.0 41.9% Director
90 Vikas Bahl 54k 29.8 54.8% Director
91 Werner Herzog 53k 36.3 48.8% Director
92 V. V. Vinayak 52k 26.3 5.9% Director
93 Ang Lee 51k 29.1 12.2% Director
94 Wim Wenders 50k 32.0 38.3% Director
95 Srinu Vaitla 48k 24.3 20.2% Director
96 Lynne Ramsay 48k 52.9 10.7% Director
97 Frank Darabont 46k 24.8 14.7% Director
98 Harmony Korine 42k 31.9 55.1% Director
99 Tai Lopez 41k 23.9 21.9% Director
100 Andrei Tarkovsky 41k 24.0 0.0% 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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