Name one versatile DIRECTOR in BW

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lovemango

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Everyone knows Yash Chopra for the Kabhi Kabhie and typical YRF romance, drama films but he also did a great job with movies like Deewaar - probably one of Bachchan's best roles. It was v dramatic but thriller-ish as well.

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KhanSinghKumar

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Rajkumar Santoshi, SS Rajamouli and of course, evergreen Yash Chopra, Prakash Mehra

i agree with Guru Dutt, Vijay Anand... it seems old directors were much more versatile.

From the new, Anurag Basu, SLB etc...Priyadarshan..

Among all, i would say Yash Chopra... he could give Deewar and Trishul, at the same time, daag, kabhie-kabhie, lamhe, veer zaara, mashaal, darr... equally great in all movies

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Only Rajkumar Santoshi and Priyadarshan from newer era

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Chudailpaapi

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Posted: 8 years ago

#14

Originally posted by: lovemango
Everyone knows Yash Chopra for the Kabhi Kabhie and typical YRF romance, drama films but he also did a great job with movies like Deewaar - probably one of Bachchan's best roles. It was v dramatic but thriller-ish as well.

He was amazing before he fell into romance rabbit hole

Dhool ka Phool - social

Waqt - thriller / drama

Trishul - masala

Ittefaq - murder / thriller

Mashaal - social

The only genre he didn't try was comedy.

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2filmy

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Posted: 8 years ago

#15

SS Raja Mouli
Yash Chopra
Anurag Basu

These are the names that come to mind

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Mimi_

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Posted: 8 years ago

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Originally posted by: 2filmy
SS Raja Mouli
Yash Chopra
Anurag Basu

These are the names that come to mind

Rajamouli is not really versatile either. All his movies are revenge dramas. Some injustice is done to the hero in the first half and he takes revenge in the second half. The situations and costumes change but the essential theme is the same in all his movies

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Karenina

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Posted: 8 years ago

#17

- Satyajit Ray (although he mainly made art films)
- Raj Khosla
- Guru Dutt
- Vijay Anand (even if he's known more for his thrillers)
- Hrishikesh Mukherjee (he didn't try action but that doesn't matter, but arguable since he was a master of slice-of-life movies)
- Yash Chopra
- Subhash Ghai
- Rajkumar Santoshi
- Anurag Kashyap
- Dibakar Banerjee

I was tempted to add Rakesh Roshan but realized that all his movies are revenge dramas.