Hansal Mehta (Director)
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Works
Industry
Aspiring screenwriter Aayush Verma navigates the bylanes of the Mumbai film industry and etches a bittersweet migrant fairy tale through his personal friendships and professional fall-outs, to make it into the world of ‘Industry’.
Release Date2024-06-19
Charactersd Hansal Mehta
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
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
Charactersd PDTS Head
Vote Count19
Showtime
An epic saga of legacy and ambition, get a glimpse behind the multi million-dollar industry of Bollywood, nepotism and power struggles at the top.
Release Date2024-03-08
Charactersd Self
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Scam 1992: The Harshad Mehta Story
Set in 1980's & 90's Bombay, Scam 1992 follows the life of Harshad Mehta - a stockbroker who single-handedly took the stock market to dizzying heights & his catastrophic downfall. Being directed by National Award-winning filmmaker Hansal Mehta, the series is based on journalist Debashis Basu & Sucheta Dalal's book "The Scam".
Release Date2020-10-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count116
Scoop
The shocking murder of a journalist thrusts a leading crime reporter into a nexus of police, media and the Mumbai underworld as she fights for justice.
Release Date2023-06-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count6
Vote Count18
Hansal Mehta's Business Drama Series
This project is touted to be India's first-of-its-kind web series delving deeply into the cutthroat world of finance, promising a grand, epic story of ambition, greed, and rivalry.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Scam 2003: The Telgi Story
It will follow the life of Telgi, born in Khanapur in the state of Karnataka, as he became the mastermind behind one of India’s most ingenious scams, which spread across 18 states and shook the entire country
Release Date2023-08-31
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count14
Lootere
When pirates hijack a ship off the coast of Somalia, a high-stakes game is played with innocent lives and a precious piece of cargo aboard.
Release Date2024-03-22
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count4
Star Bestsellers
Star Bestsellers is an Indian television series that was originally telecast on Star Plus in 1999–2000. Each episode in the series is a separate story written and directed by young and upcoming writer-directors and it carried the special intensity for a different feeling but all about proper human condition and indicating that each person has something great at heart. Writers and directors who worked in creating the episodes of the series include Anurag Kashyap, Tigmanshu Dhulia, Imtiaz Ali, Sriram Raghavan and Hansal Mehta.
Release Date1999-07-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
Modern Love Mumbai
Explore 6 unique yet universal stories of human connection and love in its varied forms – romantic, platonic, parental, sexual, familial, marital, self-love.
Release Date2022-05-13
DepartmentWriting
JobScreenplay
Episode Count1
Vote Count11
The Buckingham Murders
Fresh wounds are reopened when Jasmeet Bhamra, a cop and a single mother who recently lost her child in a shooting spree, transfers to High Wycombe and is assigned a case of a missing child.
Release Date2024-09-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
Chhalaang
Chhalaang humorously addresses the value of Sports Education in the school curriculum. It follows a hilarious, yet an inspirational journey of a typical PT Master from a semi government-funded school in Northern India, Montu, for whom it’s just a job and is forced to do what he has never done - Teach.
Release Date2020-11-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count29
Scam 2010: The Subrata Roy Saga
The Subrata Roy Saga
Release Date2024-12-13
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Simran
A Gujarati housekeeper working in the United States, allows her ambitions to overpower her which leads her to get involved in the world of crime.
Release Date2017-09-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count22
Omertà
A dramatization of the complex and dangerous life of Omar Sheikh. A convicted terrorist who many believe had financial connections to 9/11, Sheikh is widely known as the man responsible forthe 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl.
Release Date2018-04-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
Gandhi
Hansal Mehta Series
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Aligarh
A sympathetic journalist covers the true story of Ramchandra Siras, an esteemed linguistic professor at Aligarh University who was suspended on charges of homosexuality.
Release Date2016-02-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count47
Shahid
A story based on real-life human-rights and criminal lawyer, Shahid Azmi, who was slain while defending the wrongly accused by the law in terrorist activities.
Release Date2013-10-18
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count69
Dus Kahaniyaan
An anthology of ten short films dealing with diverse subjects such as infidelity, companionship, lust and a spectrum of human emotions.
Release Date2007-12-07
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count16
City Lights
Deepak Singh was an ex army person and owned a small garment shop in a Rajasthani village. When his life struck by a tragedy, he migrates to Mumbai, with his wife and young child, hoping for a better life. However, upon arriving, he soon discovers the challenges of life in a big city.
Release Date2014-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count30
Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!
Takes a slightly different look at various layers of life in a city like Mumbai through the eyes of Ram Saran (Manoj Bajpai), a garage mechanic who hails from a small town. The film is also about his interaction with the different layers of society that is prevalent in the city.
Release Date2000-09-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Faraaz
A terrifying hostage crisis unfolds over one fateful night in 2016 when heavily armed militants attack a popular cafe in Dhaka.
Release Date2023-02-03
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Woodstock Villa
Sameer thinks he's found the solution to all his problems when he's hired by a beautiful woman to kidnap her in an elaborate ruse to test her husband's love. But when the woman turns up dead, Sameer finds himself at the center of a dangerous web of lies, deception and murder.
Release Date2008-05-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
...Jayate
Stuck with getting affidavits stamped and signed, alcoholic Advocate Mohan Agashe accepts a case of medical malpractice against two gynecologists affiliated with Sanjivani Hospital whose alleged negligence put a young widow and mother of one child, Aarti Mehta, in a state of acute coma. The hospital is willing to make a settlement, but Mohan refuses and decides to try his luck in court. He soon finds out about the greed of patients' relatives, which forces him to accommodate Aarti's married sister Pooja and her son in his already-cramped flat; the lack of evidence and his very own credibility; a hostile judge among other challenges that threaten to not only drive him to despair but also turn his life upside-down.
Release Date1997-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Garbage
Taxi driver Phanishwar is living with a mysterious girl, Nanaam, who he keeps in chains. When a medical student, Rami, a victim of revenge porn leaked online by an ex-boyfriend, seeks refuge in Goa, she stumbles into the strange but placid lives of Phanishwar and Nanaam.
Release Date2018-02-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count11
Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai
Four friends fall in love, providing a catalyst as they enter into manhood and discover the beautiful wiles that women possess -- their soul and their power to love and nurture. Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai is a film where everything that occurs is completely unexpected, and just when you think you have things figured out … that's when you should think again!
Release Date2002-10-11
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
Raakh
After losing his love to the son of a gangster, a loyal gang-member must try and protect his family.
Release Date2010-11-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Chhal
Secret Service Agent, Karan Menon (Kay Kay) has been assigned the task of penetrating the gang and winning the confidence of underworld don, Shastri (Vallabh Vyas). Karan does so with ease, however, problems arise when he falls for Shastri's deputy's Girish (Prashant Narayan) sister, Padmini (Jaya Seal). He then starts to sympathize with Shastri and Girish and attempts to convince his Department, in vain. His Department assumes that he is now a out of control rogue agent, and he stops getting any support from them. And at the same time he must face the wrath of Shastri and Girish when they find out that they have been harboring a policeman in their midst.
Release Date2002-01-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count1
Hansal Mehta/Alia Bhatt Project
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Black River
The story centers around the cold-blooded murder of an eight-year-old girl in a small village on the outskirts of Delhi and the subsequent investigation.
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Accidental Prime Minister
Based on the memoir by Indian policy analyst Sanjaya Baru, The Accidental Prime Minister explores Manmohan Singh's tenure as the Prime Minister of India, and the kind of control he had over his cabinet and the country.
Release Date2019-01-11
Vote Count22