Vasan Bala

Directing

Vasan Bala

Vasan Bala is an Indian film director and screenwriter known for his work in Hindi cinema. He wrote the scripts for the period crime drama Bombay Velvet (2015) and the psychological thriller Raman Raghav 2.0 (2016). Bala made his directorial debut with the crime thriller Peddlers in 2012, which earned him a nomination for the Golden Camera Award at Cannes. He's also worked as an assistant director on films like Dev.D (2009), Gulaal (2009), and Trishna (2011). As a dialogue writer, he's contributed to The Lunchbox (2013) and Rukh (2017). In 2019, he released his film Mard Ko Dard Nahi Hota. His latest directorial was Dharma Productions Jigra (2024), starring Alia Bhatt.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

Jigra poster
6.0

When Ankur is wrongfully imprisoned and sentenced to death in a foreign country, his steely sister Satya is driven by a lethal resolve to break him free.

Jigra

2024

Monica, O My Darling poster
7.1

A slick robotics expert joins a murderous plot after a passionate affair takes a sudden turn, but nothing — not even death — is what it seems to be.

Monica, O My Darling

2022

83 poster
7.2

On the 25th of June 1983, the Lord’s Cricket Ground witnessed one of the biggest underdog stories in the history of sports. Fourteen inspired players - led by a man's self-belief and conviction - fought against all odds and orchestrated India’s greatest sporting triumph by beating the two-time World Champions West Indies.

83

2021

Raman Raghav 2.0 poster
7.0

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

Raman Raghav 2.0

2016

The Man Who Feels No Pain poster
6.7

Leveraging his ability to withstand pain, a young man trains to follow in the footsteps of his martial arts hero.

The Man Who Feels No Pain

2019

Bombay Velvet poster
5.4

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.

Bombay Velvet

2015

Bunny poster
NR

A girl and a guy pop sleeping pills around a bonfire. You won’t believe what happens next.

Bunny

2015

Bunny poster
NR

A girl and a guy pop sleeping pills around a bonfire. You won’t believe what happens next.

Bunny

2015

Geek Out poster
10.0

The dual lives we lead, that virtual alter ego we all have nurtured and empowered, The Indian "Geek" today is no longer that lad who sat in a corner. He could be that carefully framed pic on Instagram to that deadly opinionated Twitter handle or maybe that pop philosophy spitting Facebook page or that revolutionary blog that was created to change the world or just plain drowned into the Audio-Visual black hole "You-Tube". Day dreaming now has a new address, the world wide web. Dream on ! May the force be with the Geek !

Geek Out

2013

Geek Out poster
10.0

The dual lives we lead, that virtual alter ego we all have nurtured and empowered, The Indian "Geek" today is no longer that lad who sat in a corner. He could be that carefully framed pic on Instagram to that deadly opinionated Twitter handle or maybe that pop philosophy spitting Facebook page or that revolutionary blog that was created to change the world or just plain drowned into the Audio-Visual black hole "You-Tube". Day dreaming now has a new address, the world wide web. Dream on ! May the force be with the Geek !

Geek Out

2013

Peddlers poster
NR

The lives of a rookie cop, a streetwise orphan and a beautiful young ex-teacher collide explosively in the drug underworld of Mumbai in this edgy, powerhouse thriller that exemplifies the verve and excitement of India's new independent cinema.

Peddlers

2012