1948 - Today
Mahesh Bhatt (born 20 September 1948) is an Indian film director, producer, and screenwriter known for his works exclusively in Hindi cinema . A stand-out film from his earlier period is Saaransh (1984), screened at the 14th Moscow International Film Festival. It became India's official entry for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film for that year. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Mahesh Bhatt has received more than 7,584,769 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Mahesh Bhatt is the 1,138th most popular film director (up from 1,148th in 2019), the 587th most popular biography from India (down from 571st in 2019) and the 9th most popular Indian Film Director.
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Among film directors, Mahesh Bhatt ranks 1,138 out of 1,580. Before him are Julie Taymor, Kwak Jae-yong, Andrew Adamson, Hiromasa Yonebayashi, Carlos Saldanha, and Scott Hicks. After him are Lee Garmes, Naomi Kawase, Idrissa Ouédraogo, Bahman Ghobadi, Michael Ritchie, and Hany Abu-Assad.
1952 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 1,132
1959 - Present
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 1,133
1966 - Present
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 1,134
1973 - Present
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,135
1965 - Present
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 1,136
1953 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 1,137
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 1,138
1898 - 1978
HPI: 56.34
Rank: 1,139
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 1,140
1954 - 2018
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,141
1969 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,142
1938 - 2001
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 1,143
1961 - Present
HPI: 56.26
Rank: 1,144
Among people born in 1948, Mahesh Bhatt ranks 458. Before him are Guido Knopp, Natalya Gundareva, George W. Casey Jr., Richard Riehle, Enriqueta Basilio, and Ang Rita. After him are Ian Hodder, Mimi Kennedy, Frank Lampard, István Tarlós, Saroj Khan, and Jorge Carrascosa.
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 452
1948 - 2005
HPI: 56.41
Rank: 453
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 454
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 455
1948 - 2019
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 456
1948 - 2020
HPI: 56.37
Rank: 457
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 458
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.31
Rank: 459
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.29
Rank: 460
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.25
Rank: 461
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.22
Rank: 462
1948 - 2020
HPI: 56.20
Rank: 463
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.14
Rank: 464
Among people born in India, Mahesh Bhatt ranks 587 out of 1,227. Before him are Telesphore Toppo (1939), Ela Bhatt (1933), BP Koirala (1914), Raj Reddy (1937), Zakir Hussain (1951), and Subhash Kak (1947). After him are Bachendri Pal (1954), Jasraj (1930), Shatrughan Sinha (1945), K. J. Yesudas (1940), Rambhadracharya (1950), and Jagdish Bhagwati (1934).
1939 - Present
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 581
1933 - Present
HPI: 56.42
Rank: 582
1914 - 1982
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 583
1937 - Present
HPI: 56.40
Rank: 584
1951 - Present
HPI: 56.39
Rank: 585
1947 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 586
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 587
1954 - Present
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 588
1930 - 2020
HPI: 56.32
Rank: 589
1945 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 590
1940 - Present
HPI: 56.30
Rank: 591
1950 - Present
HPI: 56.28
Rank: 592
1934 - Present
HPI: 56.27
Rank: 593
Among film directors born in India, Mahesh Bhatt ranks 9. Before him are Michael Radford (1946), M. Night Shyamalan (1970), Dadasaheb Phalke (1870), Dara Singh (1928), Guru Dutt (1925), and Khwaja Ahmad Abbas (1914). After him are Adoor Gopalakrishnan (1941), Tarsem Singh (1961), Ismail Merchant (1936), Shyam Benegal (1934), Mehboob Khan (1907), and B. R. Chopra (1914).
1946 - Present
HPI: 64.41
Rank: 3
1970 - Present
HPI: 63.97
Rank: 4
1870 - 1944
HPI: 63.55
Rank: 5
1928 - 2012
HPI: 61.06
Rank: 6
1925 - 1964
HPI: 57.84
Rank: 7
1914 - 1987
HPI: 57.61
Rank: 8
1948 - Present
HPI: 56.36
Rank: 9
1941 - Present
HPI: 55.75
Rank: 10
1961 - Present
HPI: 55.47
Rank: 11
1936 - 2005
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 12
1934 - Present
HPI: 54.74
Rank: 13
1907 - 1964
HPI: 54.11
Rank: 14
1914 - 2008
HPI: 53.78
Rank: 15