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

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 Date:2025-02-16

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Black Warrant
7.7

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 Date:2025-01-10

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Episode Count:7

Vote Count:11

5.8

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 Date:2024-10-04

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:42

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 Date:2023-10-28

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Jubilee
7.1

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 Date:2023-04-07

Department:Crew

Job:Creator

Episode Count:10

Vote Count:16

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 Date:2023-02-08

Department:Production

Job:Producer

7.0

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 Date:2021-11-23

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

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 Date:2021-09-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

6.9

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 Date:2020-12-24

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:50

5.0

Keep Punching

Prior to fighting for her country, Kirnay, a withdrawn boxer must fight the battle for her freedom.

Release Date:2020-11-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

5.2

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 Date:2019-10-18

Department:Production

Job:Executive Producer

Vote Count:19

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 Date:2019-08-11

Character:Self

6.9

The Booth

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

Release Date:2019-05-11

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:5

6.0

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 Date:2019-05-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:1

6.8

Manmarziyaan

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

Release Date:2018-09-14

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:61

Sacred Games
7.8

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 Date:2018-07-06

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Episode Count:8

Vote Count:209

7.3

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 Date:2018-06-01

Department:Writing

Job:Writer

Vote Count:43

7.5

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 Date:2018-01-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:40

6.9

Trapped

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

Release Date:2017-03-17

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:115

7.8

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 Date:2016-09-09

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:6

7.0

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 Date:2016-06-24

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:117

7.2

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 Date:2016-06-17

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:150

The Kapil Sharma Show
7.1

The Kapil Sharma Show

Release Date:2016-04-23

Character:Self

Episode Count:1

Vote Count:35

4.3

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 Date:2015-10-22

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:59

7.0

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 Date:2015-07-24

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:179

5.5

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 Date:2015-05-15

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:42

6.3

Hunterrr

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

Release Date:2015-03-20

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:33

6.8

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 Date:2015-03-12

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:79

7.2

INT. CAFÉ – NIGHT

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

Release Date:2014-08-09

Department:Crew

Job:Thanks

Vote Count:11

7.3

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 Date:2014-03-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:277

6.5

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 Date:2014-02-07

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:102

6.9

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 Date:2013-05-17

Department:Production

Job:Producer

Vote Count:119

7.0

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 Date:2013-04-04

Department:Directing

Job:Director

Vote Count:83

7.2

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 Date:2010-06-17

Department:Writing

Job:Screenplay

Vote Count:201

6.9

Dev.D

After breaking up with his childhood love Paro, Dev finds solace in drugs and alcohol. He soon bumps into Leni, a prostitute, and falls for her.

Release Date:2009-02-06

Department:Writing

Job:Story

Vote Count:130

Skin Deep

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

Department:Writing

Job:Story

7.0

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 Date:2007-10-26

Character:Employee in K's Office

Vote Count:56

7.5

Devdas

After his wealthy family prohibits him from marrying the woman he is in love with, Devdas Mukherjee's life spirals further and further out of control as he takes up alcohol and a life of vice to numb the pain.

Release Date:2002-07-11

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:340

6.3

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 Date:1999-06-18

Department:Directing

Job:Assistant Director

Vote Count:111

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