Vikramaditya Motwane

Vikramaditya Motwane is an Indian film director, and screenwriter for films like Dev.D (2009) and Dhan Dhana Dhan Goal (2007). His directorial debut Udaan (2010) was selected to compete in the 'Un Certain Regard’ category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and also won seven Filmfare awards.

Works

No Smoking

A heavily addicted smoker is unprepared for the true price he must pay when he asks a guru's help to kick the habit.

Release Date2007-10-26

Charactersd Employee in K's Office

Vote Count56

The Kapil Sharma Show

Release Date2016-04-23

Charactersd Self

Episode Count1

Vote Count35

Making "Sacred Games"

VICE met up with the directors of Sacred Games, Netflix's first foray into originals in India. Veterans Anurag Kashyap and Vikramaditya Motwane explain their process to us.

Release Date2019-08-11

Charactersd Self

Sacred Games

A link in their pasts leads an honest cop to a fugitive gang boss, whose cryptic warning spurs the officer on a quest to save Mumbai from cataclysm.

Release Date2018-07-06

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count8

Vote Count217

Black Warrant

When an upright officer accepts a job at Tihar Jail, he vows to make amends after witnessing cold-blooded corruption within its walls.

Release Date2025-01-10

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Episode Count7

Vote Count26

Jubilee

In a newly independent India, a studio boss, his movie-star wife, a trusted aide, a nautch girl and a refugee will have their paths cross in their pursuit of stardom and riches.

Release Date2023-04-07

DepartmentCrew

JobCreator

Episode Count10

Vote Count17

Devdas

In 1900s India, Calcuttan zamindar Devdas Mukherjee — unable to marry his lover — takes up alcohol and the company of a courtesan to alleviate the pain.

Release Date2002-07-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count353

Stolen

The five-month-old baby of impoverished tribal woman Jhumpa Mahato is stolen. Two brothers, Gautam and Raman, who witness the kidnapping, try to help her and become embroiled in the complexities of the investigation.

Release Date2023-08-02

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count14

Udaan

Upon returning to his industrial hometown, a young man must decide whether to follow his own dreams or acquiesce to his father's plans for his future.

Release Date2010-06-17

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count207

Masaan

Four lives intersect along the Ganges: a low caste boy in hopeless love, a daughter ridden with guilt of a sexual encounter ending in a tragedy, a hapless father with fading morality, and a spirited child yearning for a family, long to escape the moral constructs of a small-town.

Release Date2015-07-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count183

CTRL

Nella and Joe are the perfect influencer couple. But when he cheats on her, she turns to an AI app to erase him from her life — until it takes control.

Release Date2024-10-04

DepartmentWriting

JobScreenplay

Vote Count48

Hasee Toh Phasee

On the eve of Nikhil and Karishma’s engagement, Karishma’s wealthy father, Devesh Solanki, expresses his disapproval, believing Nikhil to be a lackadaisical young man. With one week to prove himself worthy to marry Karishma, Nikhil and Karishma's sister, Meeta, grow closer to each other.

Release Date2014-02-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count104

Manmarziyaan

A spirited girl finds herself caught in a complicated love triangle while burdened with societal and familial pressures.

Release Date2018-09-14

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count63

Dev.D

The son of a wealthy businessman finds solace in drugs and alcohol when he breaks up with his childhood love.

Release Date2009-02-06

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Vote Count134

Lootera

In a village, a young archaeologist falls in love with a landlord's daughter. Their union seems doomed. But destiny brings them together a year later. Will they live happily ever after?

Release Date2013-04-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count84

Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam

A newly-wed man discovers that his wife is in love with another man and decides to unite them. Ignoring the ridicule he might have to face for this, he takes his wife to Italy in search of her love.

Release Date1999-06-18

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count113

Shaandaar

Jagjinder Joginder, a wedding planner, brings together the dysfunctional family of businessman Bipin Arora while making arrangements for Bipin's daughter's destination wedding in London.

Release Date2015-10-22

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count61

Queen

Rani, a 24-year-old homely girl, decides to go on her honeymoon alone when her fiancé calls off the wedding. Traveling around Europe, she finds joy, makes friends, and gains new-found independence.

Release Date2014-03-07

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count286

AK vs AK

After a public spat with a movie star, a disgraced director retaliates by kidnapping the actor's daughter, filming the search for her in real-time.

Release Date2020-12-24

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count55

Raman Raghav 2.0

A corrupt cop and a serial killer obsessed with a psychopath from the '60s get caught up in a ruthless cat-and-mouse game.

Release Date2016-06-24

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count119

Udta Punjab

Drug abuse and the darker side of Punjab rear their heads in the intense, interwoven tales of a policeman, a doctor, a migrant worker, and a rockstar.

Release Date2016-06-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count153

Trapped

A man gets stuck in an empty high rise without food, water or electricity.

Release Date2017-03-17

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count116

Ugly

A team of the best cops in Mumbai is dispatched to find a girl who has gone missing from her father's car. As the hunt for the kidnapper begins, fingers suspiciously point to closer home.

Release Date2013-05-17

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count122

Mukkabaaz

A low caste boxer, Shravan, trains at a gym controlled by a local Don, Mishra. Shravan falls for Mishra's niece, Sunaina. Mishra does not approve of this match. Shravan strives to win Sunaina's hand in marriage and become a successful boxer while trying to avoid retaliation from Mishra.

Release Date2018-01-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count41

NH10

Meera and Arjun are professionals living in Gurgaon. On their way to a luxurious desert holiday they stop on a Highway dhaba for dinner, where they witness a young girl being picked up by a bunch of hoodlums. Arjun chooses to step in, unmindful of the danger ahead.

Release Date2015-03-12

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count81

Cargo

Prahastha, a lonely astronaut, works in a spaceship. Every morning, his spaceship comes close to Earth and Cargos are delivered at the arrival bay. These Cargos are people who have just died on Earth and we learn that Prahastha works for Post Death Transition Services — a large, pioneering, bureaucratic company that stores, transitions, and recycles dead people for rebirth. Today, after many years, a young, popular astronaut — Yuvishka, trained in cutting edge technology, will join the spaceship as his assistant.

Release Date2019-10-18

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

Vote Count20

Hunterrr

An ordinary bachelor pursues girls like a hunter, but not with the intention of settling down in life.

Release Date2015-03-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count34

Bombay Velvet

An ordinary man, who goes against all odds to forge his own destiny and become a star in the glittering sky of 'Bombay,' thriving on jazz and violence.

Release Date2015-05-15

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count43

Bhavesh Joshi Superhero

A young man who stands for the right discovers that he's destined to do bigger things, which will transform him from a common man into a Superhero.

Release Date2018-06-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count45

The Booth

A female frisking booth inside a crowded mall stands as a silent ally to a forbidden romance.

Release Date2019-05-11

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count5

Keep Punching

Prior to fighting for her country, Kirnay, a withdrawn boxer must fight the battle for her freedom.

Release Date2020-11-20

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Wrong Side Raju

A driver named Raju embarks on an extraordinary journey of redemption by forever changing lives of 3 people due to a controversial hit and run accident.

Release Date2016-09-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count6

Awake

Sameera (35), upper middle class, successful photographer, is happily married to her husband Vikram (37), who is comatose. She seems very accustomed and normal in her circumstance. They live their lives happily like any other married couple. But all is not rosy as she slowly feels pressure from friends as well as her own desires that sometimes pull at her.

Release Date2019-05-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

2024

It's 2024, and a mutated virus is turning Mumbai into a death zone. Meanwhile, four friends try to find each other and get to the last train to escape the city.

Release Date2021-11-23

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Vote Count1

Shadowbox

Maya discovers that her husband – an ex-soldier who is suffering from PTSD - is the prime suspect in a murder investigation. She and her teenage son are forced to go to extremes to keep the family together.

Release Date2025-02-16

DepartmentProduction

JobExecutive Producer

INT. CAFÉ – NIGHT

A short film exploring two stories about love, loss and reunion set inside a café in Kolkata, India.

Release Date2014-08-09

DepartmentCrew

JobThanks

Vote Count12

Lust Stories 3

Part three to the anthology film.

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Under the Waters

When a sexual transgression is inflicted upon a pubescent boy at the hands of an older teenage male, the two silently ricochet between anger and longing, fear and denial while on a beach vacation with their families.

Release Date2023-02-08

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

Skin Deep

A young couple's search for a better life leads them to unforeseen circumstances that change their destiny forever.

DepartmentWriting

JobStory

Indi(r)a's Emergency

In June 1975, Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi suddenly declared what she called an internal ‘Emergency’, jailing her opponents and silencing the press. For 21 months, the world’s largest democracy was in the midst of a virtual dictatorship. Indi(r)a’s Emergency chronicles this dark period in India’s past and the lessons it holds for its future.

Release Date2023-10-28

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Repulsive

Barkha—a young smalltown woman—tries to make it as a dancer in Mumbai, but pays a heavy price for the freedom offered by the big city to experiment with her own sexuality.

Release Date2021-09-09

DepartmentProduction

JobProducer

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