Vikramaditya Motwane

Vikramaditya Motwane (born 6 December 1976) is an Indian film director, producer and screenwriter who works in Hindi cinema.

Motwane was a long-time assistant of Sanjay Leela Bhansali, and collaborated with Bhansali on the films Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam (1999) and Devdas (2002).

He directed the song sequences in Anurag Kashyap's unreleased film Paanch (2003) and was Choreographer on Deepa Mehta's Academy Award-nominated film Water (2005).

He is known for films like Udaan (2010), Lootera (2013), Trapped (2017), Bhavesh Joshi Superhero (2018) and "Indi(r)a's Emergency" (2023).

His directorial debut Udaan (2010) was selected to compete in the Un Certain Regard category at the 2010 Cannes Film Festival and also won seven Filmfare awards.

Motwane released his debut feature film, entitled Udaan (2010), for Anurag Kashyap's production house, Anurag Kashyap Films, on 16 July 2010., which won seven Filmfare awards including Filmfare critics award for best movie and also won him the Best Director Award at the 2011 Star Screen Awards.

His second film was Lootera, a big-budget Bollywood period romance, released on 5 July 2013.

Motwane's second film, a period romance called Lootera, was released on 5 July 2013.

Motwane's third film was a survival drama called Trapped.

The film had its world premiere at the Mumbai Film Festival on 26 October 2016, where it was praised and received a Standing ovation.

His third film was Trapped, a survival drama starring Rajkummar Rao, released theatrically on 17 March 2017.

The film was released theatrically on 17 March 2017 to universal critical acclaim.

The movie also won the award for 'Best Asian Film' by Neuchâtel International Fantastic Film Festival in 2017.

Motwane created American streaming company Netflix's first Indian series 'Sacred Games', based on the novel of the same name by Vikram Chandra and directed it along with Anurag Kashyap.

The series was met with critical acclaim and Netflix then commissioned a second season for it later.

His fourth film was Bhavesh Joshi Superhero, released theatrically on 1 June 2018.

Motwane is the creator of Netflix's first Indian series Sacred Games.

Motwane was co-owner of Phantom Films, a film production company, with Vikas Bahl, Anurag Kashyap, and Madhu Mantena that dissolved in 2018.

In 2020, his film AK vs AK was released.

Mr Motwane is the board member of Mumbai Academy of the Moving Image.

His father is Sindhi while his mother is Bengali.

He is married to photographer Ishika Mohan, who appeared in his debut, Udaan, as Rohan's mother.

In June 2020, it was announced that Motwane will be adapting the 2019 non-fiction book Black Warrant into a web series.

The rights are jointly acquired by his production company Andolan Films and writer-journalist Josy Joseph's Confluence Media.