Which Modern day Director has the best hattrick of movies

Which Director has the best hattrick of movies - their first three movies which were box office HITs or received critical acclaim or both

Some notable mentions who missed the boat because of one or more movies not meeting the criteria

Farah Khan [Mai Hoon Na, Om Shanti Om, Tees Maar Khan]

Rakeysh Omprakash [Aks, Rang De Basanti, Delhi 6]

Sriram Raghavan [Ek Hasina Thi, Johnny Gaddar, Agent Vinod]

Anurag Kashyap [Paanch, Black Friday, No Smoking] - zero box office 

Hirani would run away with this award. Only other director that came to mind was Bhansali.

Rajkumar Hirani easily. 

Mani Ratnam was on a roll - Nayakan, Agninachatram, Geethanjali, Anjali, Thalapathi, Thiruda Thiruda, Roja, Bombay, Iruvar, Dil Se, Alaipayuthey (original of Saathiya), Yuva, Guru, Raavanan

Also Anand L. Rai: Tanu Weds Manu, Raanjhanaa, TWMR

SLB should be Ram Leela, BM & Padmavati

I like Hirani and Barjatya

All these directors should direct more movies especially rajkumar Hirani just minus those vulgar jokes

Farhan Akhtar and Rajkumar Hirani

Finally a poll I like...although again it isn't easy to choose between the ones I favour (among those listed): Hirani, the Akhtar siblings, Imtiaz, Aditya and Bhansali.

I take Farhan...his three first movies are very different from each other (and I prefered his Don remake to the Amitji-Don).

Originally posted by: CrimeMasterToto

Which Director has the best hattrick of movies - their first three movies which were box office HITs or received critical acclaim or both

Some notable mentions who missed the boat because of one or more movies not meeting the criteria

Farah Khan [Mai Hoon Na, Om Shanti Om, Tees Maar Khan]

Rakeysh Omprakash [Aks, Rang De Basanti, Delhi 6]

Sriram Raghavan [Ek Hasina Thi, Johnny Gaddar, Agent Vinod]

Anurag Kashyap [Paanch, Black Friday, No Smoking] - zero box office 

Rohit Shetty