A+ Grade directors from India : Satyajit Ray

A few A Grade ones...: Shyam Benegal, Adoor Gopalkrishnan, Mrinal Sen, Guru Dutt, K.Vishwanath, Mani Rathnam, K. Balachander, Shekhar Kapoor, Bimal Roy

A few A- ones: Raj Kapoor, Balu Mahendra, Govind Nihlani, Bharathi Raja, Girish Kasaravalli

A few B+ grade ones: Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Ram Gopal Verma, Meera Nair, Bapu, BR Chopra, Gulzar, Kundan Shah, Kamal Hassan

B grade ones: Manmohan Desai, V.ShantaRam, Yash Chopra, Deepa Mehta

B- ones: Aditya Chopra, Shanker, Sanjay Leela Bhansali, Raj Kumar Santoshi, Vidhu Vinod Chopra

a few C graded ones: Subhash Ghai, Sooraj R. Barajatya.

upcoming Promising directors : Farhan Akthar, Nagesh Kukunoor, John Mathew Mathan, Ashutosh Gowariker, Revathi, Krishna Vamsi, Gautam Menon, Santosh Sivan, Mahesh Manjrekar, Madhur Bhandarkar

Some famous but worst directors: Karan Johar, Mahesh Bhatt, Vikram Bhatt

worst-- directors: David Dhawan, K. Raghavendra Rao, Dasari Narayana Rao, (in brief most of the Hindi, Telugu and Tamil Directors)