Hansal Mehta

Directing

Hansal Mehta

Born 1968-04-29 · Mumbai, Maharashtra

Hansal Mehta (born 29 April 1968) is an Indian filmmaker. He started his career with television show Khana Khazana (1993–2000) and later moved on to directing films like Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!! (2000), Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai? (2002) and Woodstock Villa (2008). He received critical acclaim with Shahid (2013), for which he won the National Film Award for Best Direction. He was nominated for a Filmfare Critics Award for Best Film for Faraaz (2023). He directed the television series Scam 1992 (2020), for which he won the Filmfare OTT Award for best director and Scoop (2023), which won the Asia Contents Awards & Global OTT Award for best Asian television series.

Acting credits

Behind the camera

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Pralay

The Buckingham Murders poster
5.7

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.

The Buckingham Murders

2024

Garbage poster
4.3

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.

Garbage

2018

Aligarh poster
6.8

A sympathetic journalist covers the true story of Ramchandra Siras, an esteemed linguistic professor at Aligarh University who was suspended on charges of homosexuality.

Aligarh

2016

Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai poster
5.5

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!

Yeh Kya Ho Raha Hai

2002

City Lights poster
7.0

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.

City Lights

2014

Chhalaang poster
6.2

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.

Chhalaang

2020

Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!! poster
10.0

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.

Dil Pe Mat Le Yaar!!

2000

Dus Kahaniyaan poster
4.1

An anthology of ten short films dealing with diverse subjects such as infidelity, companionship, lust and a spectrum of human emotions.

Dus Kahaniyaan

2007

Woodstock Villa poster
3.8

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.

Woodstock Villa

2008

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United by passion, torn apart by volatility and an obsessive third lover, Rose and Atharva reunite in a seductive game of love, betrayal, fantasy, and dangerously irreversible second chances.

Dilkashi

Chhal poster
9.0

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.

Chhal

2002

Faraaz poster
4.7

A terrifying hostage crisis unfolds over one fateful night in 2016 when heavily armed militants attack a popular cafe in Dhaka.

Faraaz

2023

Omertà poster
6.8

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.

Omertà

2018

Omertà poster
6.8

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.

Omertà

2018

Shahid poster
7.3

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.

Shahid

2013

Simran poster
4.9

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.

Simran

2017

...Jayate poster
5.0

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.

...Jayate

1997

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9.0

After losing his love to the son of a gangster, a loyal gang-member must try and protect his family.

Raakh

2010

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An Upcoming Film

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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.

Black River

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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.

Black River